The Federal Trade Union (ÖGB) has been accused of “betrayal”. Dozens of Tyrolean Airways (Austrian Arrows) employees organised a demonstration outside the ÖGB’s Viennese headquarters yesterday (Tues) to make themselves heard. Works council officials complained that the ÖGB considered their firm as nothing but a pawn in the game as the feud between the executive […]
Robin Wright has praised Robert Redford’s abilities as a director. The actress, who stars in the Hollywood legend’s new film “The Conspirator”, told Austrian magazine Live: “He’s not the kind of director who says a few adjectives before the shooting of a scene to describe how he wants it to be. He sits down with […]
An elderly builder had to be hospitalised following a work accident in Lower Austria yesterday (Mon). The man may have lost his balance before falling off a ladder, officials in Mödling south of Vienna said today. They added that he fell from a height of six metres and landed in an excavation pit. The construction […]
A German worker had to be hospitalised after an accident in the province of Salzburg. The man, 41, fell five metres to the ground as he erected a crane with colleagues at a building site in Zell am See yesterday (Thurs). Doctors did not give detailed information on the kind of injuries he suffered when […]
The number of foreigners at Austrian universities will double over the next 15 years, according to a new study.Frank Landler of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Demography (ÖAW) in Vienna announced today (Tues) that he expected 82,000 foreigners to study at Austrian institutions in 2025. Only 44,000 students from abroad were registered by […]
The first person in the world to receive a new kind of prostheses which he could control with his mind was involved in a dramatic car accident yesterday (Weds).Christian Kandlbauer lost both of his arms when he climbed up a high-voltage power line five years ago. A year later, Austrian and American scientists teamed up […]
A court has overruled the expulsion of a student nurse who was kicked out after posing for a series of saucy photographs.Bosses at the nursing college in Leoben decided to expel blonde Ramona Galler after she was portrayed in lingerie by a famous photographer in April.Galler asked her schools board whether she could invite Manfred […]