CSKA Sofia have dismissed their coach after a bitter 0-2 defeat against 32-time Austrian league champs Rapid Vienna last night (Thurs).Officials for the Bulgarian side announced today that Macedonian Gjore Jovanovski had been dismissed with immediate effect. It was the seventh time the club parted company with a head coach this year.Club President Dimitar Borisov […]
Up-and-coming footballer Christoph Knasmüllner has angered supporters of his club Bayern Munich by revealing he was dreaming of playing for a rival club.Asked which other club would be an option for him, the talented 18-year-old midfielder who is regarded as one of the biggest promises of Austrian football said in a newspaper interview […]
Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) boss Andreas Braun has attacked lawmakers for failing to allow the crystal shop in Vienna to open on Sundays.The manager said today that (Weds) “pseudo arguments” have been used to fight the 1,200 square-metre Swarovski store in Kärntner Street from doing business seven days a week.”Some fed-up, envious locals have been […]
By Mark TuttleScientists will be able to do a backup of the human brain including memories and thinking patterns within the next two decades, according to the computer scientist who was the first to predict the internet.Award-winning Raymond Kurzweil, 62, has notched up a string of pioneering computer inventions including voice recognition technology during his […]
The Viennese department of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) will get seven million Euros in public subsidies this year following its strong gains in the recent city parliament election.Political scientist Hubert Sickinger said today (Tues) the right-wing partys Vienna branch will have received seven million Euros by the end of 2011. Sickinger stressed this indicates a […]
Two farmers have discovered a massive cannabis plant in the middle of one of their fields, it has emerged.Police in Upper Austrias Urfahr-Umgebung district said today (Mon) that the corn farmers contacted them after spotting the illegal plantation when they gathered the harvest this morning.Drug experts said the confiscated marijuana had a street sale value […]
Freedom Party (FPÖ) boss Heinz-Christian Strache has accused the Social Democrats (SPÖ) of “ignoring peoples desires” after talks about a possible cooperation in the city parliament of Vienna were ended after barely an hour.Strache said today (Fri)that the SPÖs Viennese branch would continue its “politics of isolation” towards the FPÖ despite having suffered massive losses […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Interior Minister Maria Fekter has stressed Austria will continue to deport people who have been living in the country for many years.The right-winger said today (Thurs) she had no plans to change current regulations which allow immigration police to forcefully deport people whose residence permits are rejected.Fekter called for more “acceptance” of […]
Several decision-makers of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) are facing the chop after the federal coalition partners were badly beaten in last Sundays Vienna election.The SPÖ lost its absolute majority in the 100-member city parliament, dropping from 49.1 per cent to 44.6 per cent. The party is now forced to […]
Only one in 10 Vienna residents would have supported Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache in a direct mayoral election, research has shown.Pollsters ISA/SORA found 10 per cent would have backed the right-winger in such a ballot, while 38 per cent said they would have supported incumbent Vienna Social Democrats (SPÖ) Mayor Michael Häupl. Peoples […]