A leading doctor has called for carrying out fewer in vitro fertilisations (IVFs) over Austrias high rate of premature births.Angelika Berger of Viennas Medical University said today (Tues) that 11.1 per cent of births in Austria occur before the 37th week of pregnancy, significantly higher then the European average of seven per cent.Berger pointed out […]
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Technology firm High Tech Industries AG (HTI) is back in the black.The company headed by Peter Glatzmeier said today (Thurs) its earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) were 3.3 million Euros in the first three quarters of this year. HTI suffered losses of 21.4 million Euros in the same period of 2009.Its earnings before interest, […]
The Austrian government has finally decided to compensate the victims of incest monster Josef Fritzl, it has been reported.Reports in Viennese newspapers claim that the coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) will financially support Fritzls daughter Elisabeth and her six children based on the new victims of crimes law more […]
Cut off testicles sewn back on
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Surgeons at a Carinthian clinic managed to sew a mans testicles back on yesterday (Sun).Doctors working at the Klinikum Klagenfurt said today they expected the 49-year-old to make a full recovery following the six-hour operation. They stressed that such surgery carries very high risks and is therefore rarely carried out.The Carinthian man sliced off his […]
The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) warned today (Fri) that fine-dust pollution in Austria is higher than ever.It said pollution levels were highest in Vienna but also too high in Wiener Neudorf, Graz, Salzburg, Linz and Hall in Tirol.The club noted that 25 measurements exceeding acceptable levels were permissible annually but added there had already been […]
The Austrian Foreign Ministry has reported that there were no Austrians on board a plane that crashed en route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, killing 68 people.Ministry spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said today (Fri) that two victims initially thought to be Austrian had actually been Australian.He cautioned, however, that there had not yet been official […]
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are deeply shocked after the death of one of their members during a hiking trip in Japan yesterday (Weds).The world-famous orchestra announced today that 41 year old contrabassist Georg Straka fell down a 400-metre ravine after slipping on an icy surface during an expedition on the 3,776-metre Fuji Mountain.The […]
Austria ‘ups anti-terror measures’
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Safety measures to protect Austrias political elite have been increased following the discovery of several mail bombs addressed to European leaders.Greek left-wing activists are suspected of having posted explosives addressed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Terror experts have stressed that the attempted attacks were not in any way related to […]
Police had to wait more than 24 hours to question a boozed-up thief.The 31-year-old man was caught by police half an hour after he stole a bottle of vodka from a shop in Viennas western railway station (Westbahnhof) yesterday morning (Weds).The Vienna resident was, however, too drunk to face an enquiry on the same day, […]
Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has appealed to the Austrian government to reform the current immigration laws.The highest-ranking representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria said today (Tues): “It is not acceptable that families, who are fully integrated, who dont financially burden anyone else, whose children know no other language than German with an […]