The teeth of two of the world’s most famous composers have been stolen from their graves by a man who says he wants to start a museum. The alleged Czech thief who has boasted about his crime on the internet says he wants to now display the famous teeth and dentures he has robbed not […]
Horse on the run in Salzburg
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Salzburg’s inner-city seemed to resemble something a bit closer to the wild West recently after a horse scared by a swarm of insects that appeared suddenly, managed to break free from its coach and galloped off through the cobbled streets. The horse managed to run over 6 km before it was finally caught by police […]
Iron men on the move
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‘Suicide’ sculptures by British artist Anthony Gormley have been given the push by Austrian officials. The 100 sculptures – identical to works in London and New York – show life-sized men standing on the edge of precipices over 100 square miles of peaks in Vorarlberg. The local officials had only given permission for the statues […]
Austrian police have arrested five men from Transylvania who travelled to Spain to steal 9.5 tonnes of garlic. The men needed three large vans to transport the cargo, all of which were stacked to the very top with the stolen garlic cloves. Officers at the border crossing from Austria into Hungary said they had smelt […]
Sexual peak on offer on ebay
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A romantic couple are to be given the chance to reach new peaks – in a double bed nearly 10,000ft up a mountain in the Alps. The nature lovers will use a bed – laid on by tourism chiefs in Ramsau, Austria – placed at the top of a glacier in complete seclusion apart from […]
Probe into soldiers rafting death
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Austrian accident investigators have started carrying out tests on the raft that capsized leaving a British soldier dead after an accident on the Inn river last week. The 22-year-old man, who has not been named, was on armed services ‘adventurous training’ exercise and although the river Inn which they were travelling along had been heavily […]
A British soldier has been killed in a rafting accident in Austria. Austrian police said that the 22-year-old British man had come with a group of other members of the British Army from Germany to take part in the rafting at Landeck in Tirol. Austria has seen torrential rain in recent days and experts are […]
A husband has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he set off an avalanche in which his wife subsequently died as they were on a ski tour in Obertauern, Austria in winter 2010. The court in Linz, Austria, yesterday found the 65-year-old guilty of the charges after deciding he had set off the avalanche. […]
A debate about the use of forest cameras has erupted after an unnamed Austrian politician was caught on camera having sex in a forest by a camera fixed up to monitor local wildlife. Luckily for the politician his blushes have been spared as the pictures have not been released in the Austrian province of Carinthia. […]
Immigrants fight beggars in Salzburg
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Austrian police were called after a group of 20 young men all with an immigrant background and armed with sticks laid siege to an abandoned factory in Salzburg where a group of Gypsy beggars had taken up residence. Police have not yet commented on the reason for the altercation but have confirmed that in general […]