A Viennese worker lost a thumb while working with a circular saw yesterday (Weds), it was announced.Officials in the capital said today the 38-year-olds finger was chopped off by the machine at a construction site in the city centre.He was driven to a clinic, and it has not been announced whether surgeons managed to reattach […]
A deranged Carinthian man who tried to throw his lover off a cliff has had his jail term extended.The Federal High Court (OGH) announced yesterday (Weds) that it had decided to increase the initial sentence. Klagenfurt provincial court sentenced the 40-year-old local to 10 months in prison, with another 20 months suspended. But the OGH […]
United Nation (UN) officials and diplomats working in Austria have the highest number of sick leave days, it has been revealed.Figures presented by Austrian health insurance officials today (Weds) show that officials employed at the UNs Vienna headquarters and at the Vienna-based Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) took an average 39.3 off days […]
Residents of a small town in Carinthia feared they were doomed after a bird nicknamed the “Owl of Death” started to make strange sounds in the middle of the night.Locals in Drobollach at the Faaker Lake consulted the local hunter after several sleepless nights of the shrieking beeping sounds from the Eurasian Scops-owl. Obscure myths […]
A 37-year-old Hungarian has been arrested after police found 500 packets of cigarettes worth 40,000 Euros stashed in his car last night (Tues).A spokesman for Austrian motorway police forces said today (Weds) the man who didnt have a valid driving licence was stopped on the A1 western motorway near the Eberstalzell exit in Upper Austria.This […]
A two-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries and a broken lower leg when a table-tennis table landed on him in Carinthia yesterday (Tues).The child was running around his 58-year-old grandfathers estate in St. Gertraud in the provinces Lavant Valley when a freak gust of wind blew the ping-pong table on top of him as he […]
New models by BMW and Alfa Romeo have won an Austrian car clubs crash test.Motorists association ÖAMTC said today (Weds) the BMW 5 Series and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta reached top marks of its five-star ranking, while the new Mazda CX-7 bagged four stars.ÖAMTC lauded the two winning models for avoiding serious pressure on any […]
Boldfaced robbers have stolen a Fabergé egg worth half a million Euros from an elderly couples house after they left for a flea market.Police in Theresienfeld, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) the crooks had told curious neighbours they had been ordered to pick something up while they loaded up their car with the 500,000 Euro […]
Austrian authorities are at odds over the health bill of an alleged World War Two criminal.Josias Kumpf was extradited aged 84 to Austria from the United States in April 2009. The Austrian-born man is accused of being involved in the shooting of 8,000 Jewish women, men and children while working as a guard at Trawniki […]
Would-be car thieves did a runner when the triathlon athlete owner was woken by the noise they made.Police in Schönbühel, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) they were investigating after Saturday nights incident in which an unidentified trio stole car keys and mobile phones from the British couple sleeping in a tent at a local camping […]