Residents of a posh district in Vienna are up in arms over wild boars invading their homes. The animals have been scouring the back gardens of houses in Döbling for months. Now local Social Democrats (SPÖ), People’s Party (ÖVP) officials and representatives of the Döbling branch of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) decided to show unusual […]
An Austrian teenager collapsed and died in a hotel room in the United States, it has emerged. The 16-year-old from Wiesen in the eastern Austrian province of Burgenland visited New York City with his family. He passed out in their suite at the weekend. Paramedics failed to save his life. Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, a spokesman for […]
A man confined to his wheelchair fell into a creek trying to avoid colliding with an oncoming cyclist. The 41-year-old man was dragged out of the water by witnesses of the incident yesterday (Weds), police in Niederndorf in Tyrol said today. Officials did not say anything about the severity of his injuries. The man – […]
A man from Ukraine was arrested after police found more than 400 cigarette cartons in his car. The 30-year-old was stopped during in a traffic check on the A2 southern motorway in Villach-Land district, Carinthia, near the Austrian border with Italy yesterday evening (Weds). He was put in custody after 425 cigarette cartons were discovered […]
A paraglider sustained fractures and internal injuries when he fell out of a tree. The Czech tourist pulled the emergency chute after experiencing difficulties with the regular glide shortly after taking off at an altitude of 2,100 metres on the Krippenstein Mountain in Upper Austria’s Gmunden district yesterday (Weds). He landed safely in the treetops […]
Two Germans have been injured after their light aircraft crashed near Mauterndorf. Police in the province of Salzburg said the pair were hospitalised after the incident this morning (Weds). They explained that the pair had been the only ones on board the Cessna light aircraft which plunged to the ground around one kilometres from the […]
The birthplace of Adolf Hitler is showing more and more effort in critically reviewing its dark legacy. A majority of residents of Braunau are confronted with the town’s connection to the Third Reich leader who committed suicide shortly before the end of World War Two (WWII). A study by sociologist Judith Forstner reveals that four […]
Police have arrested a boozed-up man who claimed to be a police officer. The 53-year-old told two newspaper deliverymen he was a member of the Viennese police unit before he started attacking them physically yesterday (Tues). The slightly injured men followed the drunken offender to his flat when he tried to escape after the incident […]
Hundreds of tenants had to leave their homes temporarily after a World War Two (WWII) bomb was found. The US American aerial bomb weighing 250 kilograms was discovered by workers engaged in the construction of Vienna’s new main train station yesterday afternoon (Tues). Around 200 residents of housing estates in the city’s Favoriten district were […]
Explosives experts of the Federal Crime Office (BK) were called after employees found a bomb at a company estate in Vienna. The discovery was made in Vienna’s Donaustadt district yesterday afternoon (Mon), police said today. Officials remained tight-lipped over whether the object – identified as a World War Two (WWII) aerial bomb – could have […]