Spectacular images that show how a park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees have been captured by two divers. The snaps were taken at the Gruener See, or Green Lake as it is called in English, located in the southern Austrian province of Styria. During the winter months the lake, located near […]
A unique exhibition in the Austrian capital Vienna has proved a massive hit after bringing together for the first time some of the most famous frozen woolly mammoth remains. The exhibition called “Mammoths. Ice Mummies from Siberia” which opened this week at the Natural History Museum in Vienna includes two mummified baby mammoths “Khroma” and […]
An Austrian political party has defended a decision to promote a local beer named after the village of Fucking. And because the beer is a light beer, and the German word for light is “hell”, the beer from Fucking is naturally known as Fucking Hell. It was a move that caused problems for the company […]
Brothers Luigi and Leo Doci who own the renowned Luigi restaurant chain will be cooking up a storm in Semmering this winter. These two top restaurateurs will be providing catering services through the “Luigi Gastronomy” branch of their company to make the winter season even more delicious in the town of Semmering in Lower Austria, […]
Four men have been arrested after committing 113 break-ins, 21 thefts and causing at least 260,000 Euros worth of damage. The crimes committed ranged from a break- in at a fire station to theft of traffic road signs across Vienna and Lower Austria. A 25 year old man was initially arrested for the break-in at […]
A two-year-old girl is in an artificial coma and fighting for her life after her father threw her into a scalding hot shower leaving her with severe burns at the family home in the Austrian capital Vienna. Christian Eisenhauer told police he did not realise the shower was scalding hot when he threw the child […]
Flipping the bird was given a new meaning in Austria this week when a truck filled with plucked turkeys overturned, closing a busy motorway in the process. The accident happened on the main Austrian motorway – the A1 – that runs from the city of Salzburg to the capital Vienna and happened close to the […]
A hotel in the southern Austrian city of Graz has gone upmarket with a five-star penthouse suite by simply having it lifted by a crane onto the top floor. The managers at the Hotel Daniel were looking to have more to offer big spending customers in addition to the traditional room with a balcony, and […]
Pumpkin pie might be the order of the day for people this Halloween but now zoo animals are also getting in on the act. Not only is pumpkin – either served raw or packed with various treats – a welcome change in the diet for most zoo animals, it is also a great way to […]
With their pink hairless bodies and fangs for front teeth, these baby naked mole rats were never going to win any cuteness contests at Schonbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital Vienna. But the weird youngsters are to become the stars of a new display that shows how the bizarre rodents live. Zoologists say the species, […]