Austrian man Christian Kozel, 29, discovered he was dead when uniformed police officers turned up at his home in Salzburg at the weekend. He said: “I was pretty shocked when I saw them at my door, and was relieved to find out that although I was dead, at least it was only on paper.” But […]
Vegetarians are more likely to suffer from allergies, cancer and mental problems including depression and phobias. The wide-ranging study on diet and health was carried out by the Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology (IFES) at the Medical University (Med-Uni) in Graz, Austria. Study coordinator and epidemiologist Nathalie Burkert said that it had been a […]
Austrian burns down massage parlour
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Spanish police arrested 47-year-old Austrian Bernd Eichelberger after he burned down a massage parlour when the female masseuse refused to give him “a happy end”. The tourist in the town of Palma de Mallorca on the Spanish island of Majorca had gone for the massage believing that a happy end was part of the service, […]
Schoenbrunn Zoo gets romantic
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Romance will be in the air this Friday at Schoenbrunn Zoo as tickets for two are offered at a discount price and a special tour teaches visitors about the love lives of animals. Pairs of tickets bought using the password ‘Valentines Day’ will be on offer for a total price of 15 Euros on Friday […]
Austrian police used Facebook to help catch a suspected killer after a cold case review revealed that the man they wanted had left the country and was now living in Australia. Student Daniela Kammerer was killed by a knife in a telephone kiosk in an Innsbruck park on 23rd of June 2005. At the time […]
Prisoners at Austria’s most high security prison where incest monster Josef Fritzl is serving his life sentence brewed more than 100 pints of Christmas punch – without guards noticing. Guards admitted that the alcohol had been brewed by a group of inmates in the prison kitchen, one of the most coveted jobs where Fritzl is […]
Politicians in Austria where animal shelters are overflowing with so-called dangerous dogs are mulling over plans to put the fighting dogs into OAP care homes in a bid to rehabilitate the animals. The ‘Animals as Therapy’ group in want pit bulls and Staffordshire Terriers to be trained as therapy dogs, which could then become companions […]
The Austrian post office wants to reduce the number of people having to come and pick up packages from post collection centres in the Austrian capital of Vienna. By the end of the year the postal service wants to double the number of parcel boxes in apartments blocks in the city meaning that less people […]
A British hobby historian and photographer is appealing for help in tracking down background to a series of 70 black and white pictures taken by a British embassy employee in Austria sometime around 1938. Ken Johnston, who lives in North West England, is a company director, but he’s also somebody who in his spare time […]
Earthquake hits Austria
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Austria was shaken by an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale last night (Weds) at 19.17 PM. The epicentre of the earthquake was Ebreichsdorf in Lower Austria. A few days previously another earthquake hit there too. The earthquake was also felt in the Austrian capital of Vienna. According to the Austrian Earthquake Service at […]