Salzburg’s deputy governor and the man in charge of the province’s finances has announced he plans to resign next month after an alleged rogue trader gambled away billions on risky financial market ventures. Law graduate Monika R, 45, was hired in 2001 to speculate with taxpayers money and made massive losses in 2006 after she […]
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The ice cream parlour owner who killed her husband and then her lover and buried them under concrete in a cellar has been found guilty of double murder, and jailed for life in a secure psychiatric institute. The jury at the court in Vienna took three hours to decide whether Estibaliz Carranza, 34, was really […]
An Austrian doctor has been jailed for life after he was accused of killing a patient that died when he was not even in the building. Surgeon Eugen Adelsmayr was back in his native Austria when the verdict was delivered in his absence, and he branded the ruling a shock. He said: “It is hard […]
Baby grave found by builders
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Builders digging up land for a bypass at Schützen am Gebirge in Burgenland have unearthed a child’s grave dating back to Roman times. Archeologists say that the tiny grave surrounded by heavy stones had been undisturbed until it was found by the road workers, and that it dated back to the first century after Christ. […]
Austrian youngsters are only getting about 50% of the daily exercise that they need according to experts. And the lack of physical effort is leading to overweight and other problems including diabetes. That was the result of the study which was presented this week in Salzburg which also urged more sport in school to correct […]
Burgenland gets a new visitor attraction
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A spectacular panorama viewing platform the so-called Jubiläumswarte at the Gloriette in Eisenstadt in Burgenland was opened officially at the weekend. The new platform was built because the old one was no longer serviceable and needed to be replaced. The new 16-meter-high construction was put up in record time and is made entirely of wood, […]
Austria to act over medal drought
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Austria will no longer support “Olympic tourists”, the country’s sports minister Norbert Darabos said in an interview with the Kurier newspaper. Promising a major shake-up of state support for competitors after the country failed to win a summer Olympic Games medal for the first time in half a century. Legislation to be crafted this year […]
Sebastian Stoss to go to London Olympics
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Austrian swimmer Sebastian Stoss has qualified for the Olympic games to be held in London this summer. The 26-year-old swimmer from Vienna currently swims for the Eisenstadt Swimming Club. The backstroke specialist had originally not reached the internationally necessary qualification time, but as the Austrian team was not able to fill its start places with […]
Iron men on the move
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‘Suicide’ sculptures by British artist Anthony Gormley have been given the push by Austrian officials. The 100 sculptures – identical to works in London and New York – show life-sized men standing on the edge of precipices over 100 square miles of peaks in Vorarlberg. The local officials had only given permission for the statues […]
Scientists from the Austrian Natural History Museum have managed to recreate the appearance of a previously unknown Ammonite believed to be the ultimate great-grandfather of the modern-day squid and octopus. The team used complicated 3-D scanning technology to unearth the fossil of “Dissimilites intermedius” a layer at a time after it was discovered in sediment […]