A report into an emergency landing of a Lufthansa plane at Linz airport after the pilot reported a strange smell last week has revealed that it was cooking oil that had gone off. The oil was found in the on-board oven on the aircraft. When the oven was switched on in flight the smell spread […]
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A German politician for the newly-formed Pirate party is earning his money through a 49 per cent share in a brothel in upper Austria. Tobias Wandinger, 30, was elected to the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl District Council in Bavaria in Germany recently. But it has now emerged that the newly elected politician is also earning his money from […]
Less than a month has passed since more than 32,000 runners competed in the Vienna City Marathon (VCM), but Austrias amateur athletes are already fired up for future challenges.Thousands will take part in this years Graz Marathon (www.grazmarathon.at) on 9 October which has developed into one of the countrys main long-distance running challenges.On the same […]
Natascha Kampusch remained tight-lipped over whether a film project about her life was now in doubt due to the death of producer Bernd Eichinger as she attended his funeral service.Hundreds of people gathered at the Church of St. Michael in Munich, Germany, yesterday (Mon) in commemoration of the celebrated film director and producer who died […]
A public discussion over gay people in Croatian football sparked by controversial quotes of a Rapid Vienna legend has worsened as the vice president of a top-flight club said homosexuals “are for ballet”.Zdravko Mamic, vice president of champion team Dinamo Zagreb, said today (Weds): “I wouldnt want gay people in my team either.”His statement, made […]
Journalist representatives are outraged over an investigation by German prosecutors into Austrian reporters for citing from interrogation records.Munich juridical authorities decided to question profil writers Ulla Schmid and Michael Nikbakhsh Kurt Kuch from weekly magazine News after they revealed statements made by former Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA) decision-makers.German state prosecutors controversially regard the Austrian […]