A 10-year-old girl suffered multiple fractures when she was hit by a cab.The child ran onto the street after school in Viennas Ottakring district yesterday (Weds). A taxi driver failed to stop in time and knocked her down. The man said he was unable to react sooner since she suddenly emerged between parked cars.The primary […]
An elderly woman was freed by firemen using special cutting equipment after getting stuck in her bathroom.The 70-year-old called for help when her arm got entangled in the sliding door of her cubicle shower yesterday (Tues), police in Viennas Leopoldstadt district said.She was freed unharmed after a neighbour called the local fire brigade.
A German who faces five years behind bars for letting a woman die when he posed as a doctor will stand trial next week, it was announced today (Fri).Prosecutors will press negligent bodily harm charges against the professional actor who faked documents to be assigned as an emergency medic by institutions in Vienna and Lower […]
Toni & Guy has revealed plans to expand in Austria.The British hairdressing company which has shops across the world said today (Weds) it wanted to open more stores in the country. Toni & Guys Austrian representation is currently limited to one salon in Viennas Innere Stadt district.”The goal is to position ourselves in […]
Surgeons at a Viennese clinic are fighting to save a mans legs after a dramatic gardening accident.Both of the 75-year-old pensioners legs got jammed in the motor hoe as he was working in his garden in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria, yesterday morning (Mon).The mans wife called an ambulance, before a local doctor decided […]
An elderly woman has sustained serious injuries when she was hit by a tram.Wiener Linien, the company in charge of public transport services in the Austrian capital Vienna, said today (Tues) a 62-year-old woman was hospitalised with a traumatic brain injury.The firm explained the woman stepped on the tram tracks in Alsergrund district without checking […]
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for knifing down guests of a pub his girlfriend worked at.Judges at Viennas Criminal Court heard today (Fri) how the Hungarian-born resident of Vienna followed two men on New Years Eve 2008 when they left the bar in Vienna-Ottakring. The men, aged 47 and 69, explained they […]
The future of a planned five-star hotel in Vienna is uncertain after Asian hotel chain Shangri-La pulled out.Real estate developer Bauträger Austria Immobilien GmbH (BAI) said today (Weds) it was “totally surprised” about Shangri-Las decision to cancel their contract, saying the cooperation has so far been “very good”. BAI made clear: “The contract cannot be […]
Traffic on a busy railway connection in Tyrol had to be stopped for three hours due to the discovery of a wartime bomb.The World War Two (WWII) bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was found by workers renovating a railway bridge near the town of Roppen yesterday (Mon).No one was injured when explosives experts sent by […]
Plans to turn Mariahilfer Straße, one of Viennas most popular shopping streets, into a pedestrian area would be well received, a poll has shown.More than six in 10 (60.3 per cent) readers of the Austrian broadcaster ORFs news website back such an idea, whereas around 35 per cent oppose it. Votes are still coming in […]