Ramos brings Spanish flair to Kapfenberger SV

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Sports

Spanish forward Miguel Ramos has landed in Austria after being signed by Kapfenberger SV. The 28-year-old was under contract to Spanish third league team RSD Alcala, but signed a one year contract with the ‚Falken’ on Wednesday. He also has the option to stay for a further two years. Ramos joined his new team mates […]

Koller defends Constantini

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Marcel Koller has taken a stand on his predecessor’s policies. The coach of the Austrian football national team said about Dietmar Constantini’s decision to nominate 47 players in 23 matches: “Constantini had to create change in the team. You have to search and try out things if it is your intention to give young players […]

‘Contagion’ on at the Burgkino Vienna

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Culture

Steven Soderbergh’s new medical thriller CONTAGION will be on at the Burgkino Vienna – where all films are screened in their original language versions – tomorrow (Weds). The film starring Matt Damon (“The Bourne Identity”, “The Departed”) and Laurence Fishburne (“Rumble Fish”, “Mission: Impossible III”) won wide acclaim by critics and crowds. David Cronenberg’s A […]

Ruby to hit slopes in Tyrol

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An exotic dancer who has been in the centre of the sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go skiing in Austria tomorrow (Thurs).A spokesman for Karima El Mahrough – better known as Ruby the Heart Stealer – said today that the 18-year-old will hit the slopes in the Tyrolean winter sports resort […]

More snow ahead for Austria

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Vast parts of Austria must brace themselves for more snow, it has been announced.Weather forecasts from today (Thurs) show that the whole west of the country will be hit by intensive snowfall from tomorrow morning. Conditions in the eastern flatlands will, however, be mostly dry and sunny. Traffic in the east was especially badly affected […]

Family murder / suicide in Vienna

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A man killed his mum before committing suicide, police in Vienna said today (Weds).Officials announced that the bodies were found in puddles of blood in a flat in the Josefstadt district this afternoon. They said the man probably stabbed his mother with a knife, adding that more information would be given out later today or […]

World Cup stars prepare in Austria

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Austrian soccer fans are getting a real taste of world class football as 10 of the 32 teams qualified for the upcoming Football World Cup chose Austria to prepare for the biggest sports event of the year.All eyes will be on the England squad when they test against Japan on Sunday. Coach Fabio Capello is […]

Italians flocking to Carinthia after ‘Marian apparition’

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Canny town hall officials in Carinthia hope their town will make a fortune after an Italian seer claimed he had experienced a Marian apparition.Bad St. Leonhard officials have decided to set up a devotion memorial tomorrow (Sat) where Salvatore Caputa was said to have encountered the Virgin Mary last week.Caputa claimed he had received a […]