Jihad Girls Gunpoint Retraction Of Desire To Go Home

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General News

Austrian anti-terrorism police believe that an interview given to a French magazine allegedly with one of the two teenage girls who fled to Syria to join in the jihad was probably carried out at gunpoint. Earlier in the month based on conversations the girls had with parents and friends it was revealed that they regretted […]

Vienna Jihad Girls Want To Come Home

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The two Austrian teenage girls who became ‘poster girls’ for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after getting completely disillusioned with their new lifestyles. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in the Austrian capital Vienna and enjoyed the freedom to wear whatever they wanted, and […]

Rare Bald Ibis Makes Microlight Flight To Italy

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General News

The project to introduce an extinct bird back to Europe is hailing success after successfully negotiating a new route over the Alps and training 14 Northern Bald Ibises how to fly south to winter feeding grounds in southern Tuscany. The project led by Johannes Fritz involved inprinting the baby birds by persuading them that human […]

Viennese Jihad Girl May Have Been Killed

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General News

Austrian police say that one of the two attractive young teenage girls who fled the country to go to Syria to fight on the side of Islamic rebels may have been killed. Last week it was revealed that the girls’ flight from their families in the Austrian capital Vienna to Syria had made them an […]

Magazine branded sick over Schumi joke cover

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Sports

German satire magazine Titanic has sunk to a new low after printing a picture of Austrian Formula One Legend Niki Lauda with the title – ‘Exclusive – First Photo After The Accident – This is how badly it affected Schumi’. Titanic then goes on to claim Michael Schuhmacher, who is in a coma after his […]

Baby penguin presents itself at Vienna Zoo

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General News

Wildlife fans got their first p-p-p-peek at this fluffy newborn King Penguin chick in Austria after he went on show for the first time in Vienna’s Schonbrunn Zoo. The chick -already 10 inches tall (25 cm) – has previously been hidden by the flaps of skin both parents use under their tummies to insulate their […]

Vienna has nursery places for one third of children

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Education

Vienna is still suffering from a shortage of kindergarten places for years after the law was changed to make sure they were free to any children aged up to 6 years old. That is despite the fact that the city has invested heavily in increasing the number of places available. Yet despite those most experts […]

Pressure rises for school pupils as school year end nears

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Education

Parents splash out a collective 33 million Euros a year on tuition fees in Austria for their children, but are now being advised to spend more time talking to them instead. Recent figures from the Vienna Chamber of Labour shows that every fourth student in the capital – around 6,000-7,000 – retake their exams every […]

Injured young owl rescued

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Green Austria

Pedestrians found a young long-eared owl in the castle park of Schönbrunn, Vienna. The owl was sitting on the floor and was attacked by crows. She was taken to the “owl and birds of prey institution” of Haringsee (district of Gänserndorf, Lower Austria). The pedestrians rescued the long-eared owl. The owl was examined in the […]

More couples opting not to have children

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Lifestyle

The classic idea of a family in Austria is changing. According to Statistik Austria, four in every ten families have no children. More and more married couples are choosing not to have children. There are currently 2,347,000 families in Austria, and 935,000 couples live without children in their household. In four out of ten families […]