A romantic couple are to be given the chance to reach new peaks – in a double bed nearly 10,000ft up a mountain in the Alps. The nature lovers will use a bed – laid on by tourism chiefs in Ramsau, Austria – placed at the top of a glacier in complete seclusion apart from […]
Austrian Minister for Families Reinhold Mitterlehner has organised a special family ticket for the “Long Night of the Family” on 6 May that allows entry to things connected to the Habsburgs. From Schloss Schönbrunn or the world’s oldest zoo, through to Schloss Hof – the ticket allows all the attractions to be visited with a […]
KAC have won the first match of this season’s ECEL Hockey League final. The Carinthian club beat Black Wings Linz 3-2 last night (Thurs). The next match of the best of seven series will take place on Sunday (25 March).
Political leaders and showbiz stars had only kind words about last night’s (Thurs) Opera Ball. Austrian President Heinz Fischer said the event had nothing to do with the corruption scandals former Austrian government ministers, businesspeople and lobbyists are accused of being involved in. A special parliamentary commission headed by Gabriela Moser of the Green Party […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Less than an hour from Vienna a snowy haven awaits all winter sports enthusiasts. The compact ski resort, Zau[:ber:]g in Semmering, can be reached by rail, bus or road from the Austrian capital, making it both the ultimate holiday and after work ski destination. Whilst the resort may be smaller than other […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Not a good night for Austrian football. After seven months of home wins, Salzburg suffered a 0:1 defeat last night (Thurs) to Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League. Despite being 0:2 down in the first half, FK Austria Wien managed to salvage one point in a 2:2 draw against AZ Alkmaar with […]
A Hungarian woman and her boyfriend had to be hospitalised after a violent night-time argument. The 30-year-old attacked her partner, 31, with a knife in their apartment in Wels, Upper Austria, last night (Sun/Mon). She suffered injuries herself in the brawl, according to local police. Officials are set to question the woman trying to find […]
A female police officer accidentally killed a homeless man by shoving him down a flight of stairs. On Monday night, workers of the charity DOWAS for homeless people in Bregenz, Vorarlberg called the police after trying to eject a drunk homeless woman from the charity’s emergency night shelter, DOWAS boss Michael Dittrich said. When the […]
A 22-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was stabbed by rioters at the weekend. The trio attacked the doorman with their knifes after he threw them out of a night club in Vienna’s Donaustadt district on Saturday night. His condition is serious, according to doctors. Three other people were also injured when […]
A young holidaymaker suffered serious injuries when he plunged off a balcony. The 18-year-old was carried into his first-floor hotel room in St. Kanzian, Carinthia, at the end of a boozy night in town in the early hours of today (Weds). An employee of the resort called an ambulance when he found the unconscious teenager […]