One in three women consider plastic surgery

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Lifestyle

A third of Austrian women can imagine undergoing cosmetic surgery, a poll has revealed.Researcher Marketagent said today (Thurs) around 33 per cent of women considered plastic surgery as an option, while only one in six men said the same.Breast reductions and enlargements were identified as the most popular potential surgery among women in the poll, […]

Record pollen summer may lie ahead

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Lifestyle

Doctors have warned of a year with a strong pollen pollution.Experts said at a conference in Vienna yesterday (Thurs) that the amount of pollen in the air could be twice as high in some areas in Austria this spring and summer than in 2009.The panel of doctors warned many people would underestimate allergies. They explained […]

‘Wild rumours’ over young diplomat’s death

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Politics

Viennese media have claimed there is much speculation surrounding the death of an ambassador at the age of just 42.Fuad Ismayilov – the Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria – died of cardiac failure, according to an official statement. His body will be transferred to Baku, the federal capital of the Eurasian country to be buried, according […]

Miele Austria sets another turnover record

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Business

Household appliance manufacturer Miele Austria has managed to improve its turnover for the third year in a row.Company boss Josef Vanicek said today (Thurs) that the firm – which is based in Wals near Salzburg – achieved a turnover of 190 million Euros in 2010. Vanicek said this was a seven per cent increase compared […]

Romanian MP set for AKH surgery

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General News

A Romanian politician is to undergo pancreas surgery in Austria, it has been reported.Online newspaper Romanian Times reports today (Thurs) that Democratic Liberal Party MP Teo Trandafir needs to go under the knife at Vienna’s General Hospital (AKH).The 42-year-old MP’s condition has worsened in the past days, according to the report. Trandafir – a former […]

Pensioner chained by burglar

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General News

A Styrian pensioner was beaten and chained up by a robber yesterday (Thurs), police in St. Margarethen an der Raab have said.The 75-year-old woman was in the bathroom of her house when a masked man suddenly appeared. The criminal, who did not say a word during the whole break-in, punched the woman in the face […]

Woman jailed for chainsaw rampage in neighbour’s garden

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An Upper Austrian woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for cutting down trees in her neighbour’s garden.The 28-year-old was in court in Ried im Innkreis yesterday (Thurs) for axing several spruces in her next-door neighbour’s back garden with a chainsaw last year. The actions were the final chapter in a bitter feud […]

Insomnia suffers have 650 per cent above average accident risk

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Lifestyle

People suffering from sleeping disorders face a high risk of having accidents, a scientist has warned.Graz-based scientist Manfred Walzl said today (Thurs) that people affected by insomnia and other sleeping disorders for a long period of time are 650 per cent more likely to be involved in all kinds of accidents during the daytime.”People who […]

Sleepwalker seriously injured in second-storey fall

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General News

A young man suffered several broken bones when he fell out of a second-floor window last night (Thurs/Fri).Roland P. opened the balcony door in the family home in Zwettl, Lower Austria, before falling over the handrail, police said today.The 21-year-old, who had never sleepwalked before, was found by his girlfriend who started looking for him […]

Austrian may have headed European prostitution ring

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General News

A 32-year-old Austrian is accused of having masterminded an internationally operating human-trafficking gang.Austrian police announced today (Thurs) that the man was arrested earlier this week. He is the main suspect in investigations into a prostitution business in Ibiza. Women from the Czech Republic, Germany and other countries were lured to the Spanish island.The Austrian and […]