Austria Vienna bosses have extended coach Karl Daxbachers contract, it has been announced today (Fri).The former LASK Linz managers contract would have expired at the end of this season.Officials at the club, which is currently third in the Austrian football Bundesliga, said they had already agreed with Daxbacher to extend the cooperation ahead of the […]
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Vienna International Airports (VIA) turnover and earnings dropped in 2009 in a year overshadowed by the revelation that the cost of construction of a new terminal may double.The Austrian Audit Office (RH) is examining VIAs books after the press reported that the cost of building the new “Skylink” terminal could reach 830 million Euros instead […]
A deranged Vienna woman claimed she was ordered to stab someone by “a monster” after watching an episode of the supernatural series “Charmed”.The 20-year-old, who suffers from borderline syndrome, according to her lawyer, drove to Vienna International Airport (VIA) earlier this year and attacked a German woman with a kitchen knife. The tourist from Berlin […]
Putin ‘to visit Austria next month’
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Russian Premier Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Vienna next month, according to a newspaper report.Vienna daily Heute reported today (Weds) that Putin, who has a black belt, would attend the Judo World Championships set to take place in the Austrian capital between 22 and 25 April on 24 April.The newspaper also claimed that […]
A Vienna-based auction house has purchased the gold and silver stocks of a Croatian company that are worth almost half a million Euros, according to a newspaper report.The Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija claimed today (Weds) that auctioneer H. D. Rauch GmbH had won the public tender for 18.5 kilos of gold and 152,425 kilos of […]
Austria Vienna will wear special all-red jerseys and shorts for the first time in the clubs history against Red Bull Salzburg this Sunday as part of an international AIDS awareness campaign.The team, who usually compete in purple, support its outfitter Nikes “Lace Up, Save Lives” campaign which was initiated by U2 singer Bono. Stars like […]
Pink ‘not invited’ to Life Ball
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Pop star Pink will not attend the this year’s Life Ball, organisers of the Vienna AIDS charity event said today (Mon), dismissing claims made by newspaper Österreich.Gery Keszler, head organiser of the 17 July bash, said: “It pains me that four months before the Life Ball society reporting is reducing the importance of our most […]
A panel discussion about US president Barack Obamas vision of a world free of nuclear weapons organised by top international organisations will take place in Vienna next week.The Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) and the United States Mission to International Organizations, both based in Vienna, announced the debates high-profile list of participators today (Fri).Glyn […]
The new all-night underground service on Fridays and Saturdays will begin on Saturday, 4 September, it was announced today (Thurs).Vienna Social Democratic (SPÖ) Deputy Mayor Renate Brauner and Günter Steinbauer, the manager of city public transport agency Wiener Linien, said trains would be spaced at 15 minute intervals during night time service.He said the new […]
‘AIDS 2010’ will have EE focus
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Organisers of the International AIDS Conference to be held in Vienna later this year said the events focus would be on marginalised groups with the disease like drug addicts in Eastern Europe (EE).Michel Sidibe, head of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, said yesterday (Weds) that the conference would be held “for people […]