Five teenage would-be muggers did a runner after their judo champion victim proved his skills when they tried taking his mobile.The gang fled as the boy, 15, punched one of the attackers in the face in the after-school incident in Graz yesterday (Weds).The unharmed teenager then went to the next police station to report the […]
Bakery staff were given suspended sentences yesterday (Weds) after they sold a bottle of mineral water filled with detergent last year.David D. is still recovering from taking one gulp from the bottle he bought at the shop in Grafenschachen in Burgenlands Oberwart district last November.The bakerys 40-year-old boss told judges at Eisenstadts provincial court that […]
An 83-year-old woman punched and bit two policemen as she faced being banned from the roads in Styrias Bruck an der Mur district yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner who failed to present a driving licence during a routine traffic check on the B116 main road near Kapfenberg, lashed out at the officers when they asked her to […]
Fire at Russian Embassy this morning
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A fire broke out at the Russian Embassy in Vienna this morning (Thurs), it has been announced.Officials at the Landstraße district fire department said no one was injured by the blaze around 7am.Firemen quickly managed to extinguish the fire which broke out for unclear reasons.Experts are now set to investigate the site to find out […]
More Austrians than ever in history are expected to leave the Catholic Church this year.Official figures from today (Thurs) show that 30,004 people left the Church in the first three months of this year, up by 42 per cent compared to the same time span of 2009 when more people than ever cancelled their membership.These […]
A Vienna man was given a nine-month suspended sentence after posting anti-Semitic statements on the internet.A court in the capital heard today (Weds) how the 46-year-old wrote “all Jews should be gassed as in 1938” in the discussion forum of the Kronen Zeitung newspapers website.The accused also posted “they should be put against the wall […]
New high-tech speed traps ‘useless’
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Austria lost out on around six million Euros of traffic fines as new high-tech speed traps turned out to be unusable.Motorway administration authority Asfinag set up three high-end radar traps worth 450,000 Euros on the A21 motorway and the S1 main road near Vienna last autumn. The new devices catch drivers from the front in […]
‘Racist’ Vienna policemen in court
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Four Vienna policemen are accused of racially insulting a Turkish-born Austrian Olympic athlete.Viennese taekwondo star Tuncay Caliskan who came fourth in the 2000 Olympic Games and also qualified for the event four years later claims the officers verbally abused him when he tried to report an attempted assault on him in the street.Caliskan […]
Austrian airspace gets all clear
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Aviation activity in Austria was back to normal today (Weds) after air traffic officials said there were no possible problems from volcanic ash anymore.Peter Schmidt, a spokesman for air traffic administration agency Austro Control, said the whole country was third in the European Unions (EU) new three-scale ash danger index.Schmidt explained this meant flights can […]
Austria tops EU drinking study
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Austria tops a study researching drinking habits of people in the European Union (EU).Fifteen per cent of Austrians said they would drink alcohol four to five times a week. This is a higher percentage than in any other EU member state, according to the European Commissions (EC) Eurobarometer poll.Bulgarian came second with 14 per cent […]