Watching pornographic material on the Internet is now a global addiction fuelled in recent years by a large number of people looking at X-rated material online while at work. That was the claim made at a congress examining medicine and therapies for sexual issues in Salzburg by a German expert at the weekend. Berlin-based Dr […]
Cold-blooded Estibaliz Carranza, 34, pleaded guilty to killing her husband and her boyfriend in court in Vienna, Austria, today (Monday) on the first day of the hearing. Ice cream parlour owner Carranza – dubbed the Ice Lady by local media – admitted killing the men, cutting them up into pieces and cementing them into her […]
A female ice cream parlour owner accused of killing her husband and boyfriend and entombing their bodies in tubs in her shop cellar is to stand trial on Monday (nov 19). Cold blooded EstÃbaliz Carranza, 32 – dubbed the Ice Lady – is said to have hacked her victims’ bodies into pieces and cemented them […]
A treasure hunter thought he had discovered a valuable archaeological site when his metal detector uncovered antique tableware believed to be several hundred years old including candlesticks and fruit bowls hidden in a wood at Alland in Lower Austria. But archaeologists quickly realised that all was not as it seemed when they found that the […]
Driver drops dead after car chase
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An autopsy has been ordered to try and work out why a 44-year-old man dropped dead after he was given an injection to calm him down after being arrested by police following a high-speed car chase that went from Austria through into Slovenia. The 44-year-old Viennese man sped off from police after a routine spot […]
Austrian police have arrested two butchers from the Czech Republic who worked in a meat packaging plant on the border who used to sneak out into the car park at the back of their firm and throw meat over the fence where accomplices would load into the car and sell it across the border to […]
An eight-year-old became a lifesaver after taking part in a first aid course offered at a shopping centre by Red Cross volunteers and then minutes later putting into practice when her grandmother collapsed in an underground car park in Graz in southern Austria. Schoolgirl Tina took part in the half-hour course while her grandmother Stephanie, […]
A young mum was bitten on the ankle by a poisonous snake after it hitched a lift to her flat in a city centre apartment inside a child’s pram when she went for a walk in a nearby wood at St Florian am Inn in Upper Austria. Jacqueline Osterkorn, 20, had left the pram in […]
Salzburg chooses their Christkind
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The jury has finally settled on the choice of Christkind for the Salzburg Christmas market after a jury selected the winning candidate and 3 angels from the young girls that applied to take part at the weekend. The selection took place in the studio of RTS and the jury included advertising professional Nadica Petrovic who […]
Fiddlers caught with stolen violin
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A valuable violin that was stolen from its Australian musician owner as she travelled on the Vienna Underground has been recovered after police arrested a gang of crooks at the weekend. The violin estimated to be worth 44,000 euros was the property of the Australian violinist Emma West, who said that she thought she would […]