Ex Austrian Formula 1 champion driver Niki lauda has admitted he faked his exam results to make his parents think he had graduated with top marks and he would then be allowed to go driving. The racing pro admitted he was far more interested in motor racing than completing his Matura – the Austrian end […]
An unattended nine month old baby was seriously burned after crawling across to the oven and pulling a deep fat fryer full of burning oil over itself in Stadl an der Mur, Styria. The tot pulled on a cable attached to the fryer and pulled it over. Half a litre of hot oil landed on […]
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old caveman found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. The body of the iceman was found frozen under the ice on the mountainous border between Austria and Italy by a hiker, sparking a bitter row between the two countries over which could […]
Romanians are paying the most money to private clinics in Vienna than any other Europeans. More and more Romanians are now heading to Austria for medical treatment and are reportedly now spending more on health care here than any other Europeans. That was the claim made at a health fair in Bucharest where it was […]
An adopted Dutchman who flew to Austria to track down his real parents has launched a multi-million pound inheritance claim after discovering his real father was a wealthy local businessmen. Under Austrian law, children are guaranteed a share of their parents wealth and it isn’t possible to disinherit them. Ronald Nijman, 42, had been born […]
Sheep shares are being offered in Austria in a bid to keep meadowland under control. The unique project has been set up in the Weinberge in southern Burgenland where the forests are threatening to encroach on the open landscape that previously existed. Now a project to keep the natural meadows the part of the local […]
A helicopter pilot could face manslaughter charges after heavy cloud meant he failed to realise how high they were when he released a rope – and dropped a mountain rescue expert to his death. Alpine policeman Franz Franzeskon, 52, and two colleagues were being lowered on a harness in a bid to rescue a 40-year-old […]
By Fidan Aliyeva in Vienna One of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s top official’s has been discovered dead floating in the river Danube. Shukri Ghanem, 69, who was Libyan prime minister between 2003 and 2006, was dressed normally when he left his home on Sunday morning and was found dead in the Danube at 6:40am […]
A German politician for the newly-formed Pirate party is earning his money through a 49 per cent share in a brothel in upper Austria. Tobias Wandinger, 30, was elected to the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl District Council in Bavaria in Germany recently. But it has now emerged that the newly elected politician is also earning his money from […]
Austrian firemen in Melk in Lower Austria have been praised after stepping in to help a Chechen family of four who lost everything when their car burst into flames. The couple and their two children could only look on in tears as their car caught fire as they travelled along the Westautobahn near Melk. Fire […]