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 […]
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Explosives experts of the interior ministry were summoned to defuse two wartime bombs in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, this morning (Thurs).The bombs discovered at a property belonging to the Austrian army were identified as training bombs used by the German Wehrmacht forces in its military drill exercises during World War Two (WWII). No […]
WWII bomb discovered in Vienna
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Explosives experts had to defuse a 250-kilo aerial bomb in Vienna this afternoon (Tues).The World War Two (WWII) era missile was found by construction workers at the site where the citys new main train station is currently being built.A team of experts sent out by the federal interior ministry decided to evacuate the area for […]
A worker suffered severe injuries when he plunged into a container of boiling water.The 39-year-old man from Kirchbach wanted to empty the cooling water basin at the Marienhütte steel factory in Graz, Styria, when he slipped and fell into it. He sustained second degree burns all over his body.The workers was transferred to the citys […]
Austria’s unemployment rate has dropped, half a year before the country must fully open its labour market to workers from European Union (EU) states in Eastern Europe (EE).Statistik Austria announced today (Weds) 179,000 people were out of work in the fourth quarter of 2010, down by 21,000 or 10.6 per cent compared to the same […]
Around one million Austrians now and then work illegally, according to a new study.Friedrich Schneider of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz said today (Tues) that a million of the overall 8.5 million Austrians occasionally work without letting labour officials and insurance companies know of their activities.The university professor explained “around 100,000 to 200,000” Austrians […]
A homeless man is fighting for his life after being knifed as he queued up for a warm meal.Attila S., 20, was stabbed in the stomach when an argument with another person in line for a plate of hot soup at the Caritas Canisi Bus free food service in Vienna-Josefstadt got out of control last […]
Organisers of the Frequency Festival are in hot water after a firm assigned to clean up after last weekends mega event has been accused of illegally employing most of its staff.A special unit formed by finance ministry officials and police found out that 48 of the 53 workers hired by the company to clean up […]
More than 100 workers are facing the axe after an American car parts maker announced it is set to close its Austrian factory next month.Lear Corporation said today (Tues) it will shut down its site in Köflach, Styria, on 24 August.Styrian Social Democratic (SPÖ) Deputy Governor Siegfried Schrittwieser said he offered the 120 affected employees […]
Austria has made the top three in a humiliating European Union (EU) retirement age ranking.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures presented today (Weds) reveal that Belgium and France were the only other EU member states with a comparably low average pensioning age as Austria where men retire on average at 59 and […]