A Burgenland pensioner died after falling off a tree yesterday (Tues).Police in Gols said today the man, 77, wanted to cut some of the trees branches in his garden. But after climbing onto a treehouse to cut the branches the roof collapsed sending him plunging five metres to the ground.The man, who was found lying […]
A Briton has been arrested for trying to smuggle six Afghans illegally into France.Police in Kufstein, Tyrol, said today (Mon) the British driver, 34, told them that the six passengers of whom one was found in the boot were friends of a friend and he agreed to give them a lift to Paris […]
Police have said they will interrogate a Styrian technician who suffered burns when explosives blew up at his home.Provincial police investigator Günter Peterka said today (Fri) the 26-year-old Edelschrott resident was hospitalised at a Graz clinic with second and third degree burns after Wednesday nights incident.He added officers found gun powder and other substances at […]
A 94-year-old woman was hospitalised with smoke poisoning after her house caught fire as she tried to put another log in her oven.The fire spread quickly throughout the whole house after the pensioner dropped burning piece of wood on the floor in Patsch, Tyrol.She managed to get clear in time, and local fire-fighters rescued her […]
A famed German film producer is to bring the story of Natascha Kampusch to the big screen, it was announced yesterday (Thurs).Bernd Eichinger who masterminded blockbusters such as “The Neverending Story”, “Resident Evil” and “Fantastic Four” said he will team up with German journalist Peter Reichard whose TV documentary on Kampuschs life in […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA) custom officers arrested three drug couriers trying to smuggle illegal substances worth more than half a million Euros inside their bodies.VIA authorities said today (Fri) the suspects a 35-year-old Spanish woman, a 25-year-old Spaniard and a 31-year-old man from the USA arrived individually at VIA on a flight from […]
An elderly Carinthian driver crashed into a shop entrance in Althofen today (Fri).Police in the province said the man, 86, steered his car into the store in an attempt to park the vehicle.Another elderly man a 71-year-old Althofen resident was squashed between a metal pole and the car after failing to get clear […]
Wels police have begun investigating after animal activists reported organisers of a concert by AC/DC for their handling of the event.Josef Limberger, head of the Nature Protection Union of Upper Austria, said today (Thurs) trucks drove around on territory organisers agreed they would not enter to protect the habitat of rare plants and animals at […]
Austrian data protection watchdogs have stopped Google from filming the countrys streets for its controversial Street View service.The Federal Data Protection Commission (DSK) said today (Thurs) it had decided to take the drastic step over news that Google had “accidentally” recorded wireless LAN internet connection information using its cars in in some European countries.A DSK […]
Federal High Court judges dismissed appeals to lower the sentence of a man who stabbed a former boxing champion to death.Judge Brigitte Kunst, who headed the three-member senate in todays (Thurs) trial, said the Chechen defendants 20-year sentence will not be lowered as requested by his lawyer Lennart Binder.Zaurbek Bersanov, 27, was found guilty of […]