The current week is expected to be the hottest of this year, meteorologists said today (Tues). Experts explained this week’s top daytime temperatures of between 30 and 38 degrees centigrade were likely to make it the hottest week of the whole year. They did not rule out that previous temperature records for August could be […]
A young crane operator was seriously injured in a work accident yesterday (Thurs). The 25-year-old man sustained severe injuries to his face when liquid metal spilled as colleagues tried to pour the substance from one container into another at a construction site near Lilienfeld, Lower Austria. The liquid metal had a temperature of 1,500 degrees […]
A tradition-rich bakery has decided to support an Austrian relief organisation’s operation in East Africa. Millions of residents of Somalia and other countries of the impoverished area need water, food and logistical support as the region experiences one of the worst droughts in history. Now bakery chain Ring announced it will transfer one Euro to […]
Parents of first-formers are bracing themselves to spend hundreds of Euros in the coming weeks, a poll has shown. Public opinion agency Integral announced today (Weds) people whose kids started school next month were expecting to fork out 400 Euros on various goods such as writing utensils and schoolbags. The agency pointed out that a […]
Walter Anzboeck, the liquidator of Josef Fritzl’s estate said the cellar of the house where Fritzl imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter for 24 years will be filled up with concrete. Anzboeck said the move was to ensure the space could never be entered again. He said in a statement on Friday that concrete will […]
A female police officer accidentally killed a homeless man by shoving him down a flight of stairs. On Monday night, workers of the charity DOWAS for homeless people in Bregenz, Vorarlberg called the police after trying to eject a drunk homeless woman from the charity’s emergency night shelter, DOWAS boss Michael Dittrich said. When the […]
The Austrian Post will start testing domestic drop off boxes to receive packages when the receiver is not at home. The boxes will be placed close to the existing postboxes. If a package receiver is not at home, he will get a notification and a code card with which to operate the drop off box. […]
The two-year-old son of an Italian family visiting a church in Spitz was hit by the 200 pound holy water cauldron and was seriously injured. Police said that during the family’s visit to the parish church in Spitz in the Krems district of Lower Austria on Wednesday noon the little boy pulled himself up on […]
The director of one of Europe’s most loved circuses has revealed how European Union (EU) regulations affect his activities. Asked by magazine profil whether the EU’s recent ban of old-fashioned light bulbs enforced special measures at the Circus Roncalli, Bernhard Paul said: “I bought all (old version) models I could get hold of in Germany […]
A police helicopter rescued two climbers after they were kept from returning to the valley by a thunderstorm. Officials in Tyrol said today (Tues) the German men, aged 27 and 29, were exhausted but unharmed. The incident occurred in the western province’s Wilder Kaiser mountain range on Saturday afternoon.