A struggling Austrian Bundesliga team have the tallest squad in Europe, new figures show.The Professional Football Players Observatory (PFPO) said today (Fri) that SV Mattersburg and Ukrainian Premier League club FC Volyn Lutsk have the tallest players on the continent with an average height of 186 centimetres.The PFPO added that its third Demographic Study of […]
An up-and-coming Austrian footballer has joined 2010 UEFA Champions League winners Inter.Christoph Knasmüllners agent Otto Hauptmann said today (Thurs) that the midfielders current club Bayern Munich had agreed with the Italian giants on a transfer.Knasmüllner, who joined the German Bundesliga champions from the youth department of Austrian Bundesliga Austria Vienna in 2008, will undergo medical […]
Prosecutors have called for tougher punishments after a court in Vienna sentenced a man to more than seven years in jail for robbing three cab drivers.The unemployed man, who amassed debts with a gambling addiction, threatened taxi drivers with a knife or punched them in the face close in the night-time incidents last summer. He […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA) recorded significantly more passengers year on year in 2010 and bosses said they expected customer figures to soar further this year.VIA announced today (Weds) it registered 19.69 million passengers last year, up by 8.7 per cent compared to 2009. The airport, which is located near Schwechat in Lower Austria, explained […]
A man has been evicted from his flat in Vienna for excessively feeding pigeons for many years.The unemployed man, 56, was kicked out of his apartment in the Meidling district after a court ruled his actions made living in the housing estate unbearable for other tenants. Several residents filed legal complaints against the pigeon enthusiast […]
A man has been arrested after claiming that his girlfriend “was clambering about” in their flat in front of the window before she plunged to her death.The 29-year-old woman died before an ambulance arrived at the housing estate in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Tues).Her boyfriend, 24, told police he had been drinking with her in their […]
A Viennese man has claimed that he received more than 20 legal letters over parking offences after his car was nicked but was not told where his stolen car is.Josef F. said today (Tues) that Vienna city administration officials have sent over 20 notifications with parking fines since his vehicle was stolen in October. […]
Veteran playboy Richard Lugner will attend this years Graz Opera ball with cult actor Zachi Noy, it has emerged.The 78-year-old businessman, whose girlfriend Anastasia Sokol is 57 years his junior, said today (Tues) he will be accompanied by Noy who rose to fame by starring in bizarre 1978 soft porn comedy movie “Eskimo Limon”.The Israeli, […]
More than 100 people gathered in Vienna to commemorate the death of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, it has been claimed.Amer Albayati, a journalist and founder of the Association of Liberal Muslims in Austria, told the Kronen Zeitung today (Tues) he has information that 120 supporters of the dictator came together in Vienna recently to […]
A police officer who mistook an African-American teacher for a drug dealer has been fined by a court nearly two years after the incident which made international headlines.Mike Brennan from Jacksonville, Florida, who works at Vienna International School (VIS), went on sick leave for several weeks after the incident in February 2009 in which he […]