Fire fighters freed a boy who got trapped in an iron gate with his head, it was reported today (Weds).A woman called the local fire brigade for help after spotting how six-year-old Leon could not get back or forth in Wels, Upper Austria, on Monday evening. The kid got away unscathed after firemen freed him […]
Police seized the licence of a motorist who was caught bombing along at 280 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Upper Austria.The US American citizen was also issued with an undisclosed fine for breaching the 130 kph speed limit on the A1 western motorway near Oberwand in his Aston Martin sports car on […]
A two-year-old girl underwent surgery after she was bitten in the face by a dog.The child was attacked by a friends Border Collie at a garden party in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, yesterday (Tues). The canine reportedly bit the kid when she tried to catch a tennis ball herself and that others had thrown into the air.The […]
A Polish man has been arrested for stabbing his girlfriends former partner.The 32-year-old was put in custody after he knifed his love rival a 28-year-old compatriot in the stomach once in the hallway of a housing estate in Vienna-Meidling yesterday evening (Mon).The victim was hospitalised with injuries described as not life-threatening by doctors.
An elderly paraglider was taken to a clinic after a crash landing.The 60-year-old man wanted to touch down on a football pitch in Schnifis in Vorarlbergs Feldkirch district when his glider grazed nearby trees on Sunday afternoon. He plunged to the ground from around eight metres.The paraglider was transported to a clinic in Feldkirch via […]
An important public transport hub and several flats had to be evacuated after an aerial bomb from World War Two (WWII) was discovered under a former porn cinema in Graz this morning (Tues).The 250-kilo US Army missile, which was dropped in 1944 or 1945, was discovered by workers during excavation activities under the Nonstop Kino, […]
A 46-year-old man suffered serious injuries when he tried to separate fighting dogs in Vienna yesterday afternoon (Sun).The resident of the city was going for a walk with two friends and their dogs, an American Stafford Terrier and a Bullmastiff, at the Prater park. The canines playing around soon turned into an aggressive fight. Both […]
A 24-year-old Slovak driver was caught going nearly twice as high as the speed limit on a motorway in Salzburg.The man was stopped by a police car after a radar trap flashed him driving at 230 kilometres per hour (kph) on the A1 western motorway near Eugendorf this morning (Mon). The general speed limit on […]
Three men suspected of being behind a break-in spree in Austria have been arrested in Poland.Investigators in Austria assume that the Poles stole six caravans, two cars, a motorcycle, a truck and a minivan from two company estates in the Lower Austrian districts of Neunkirchen and Gänserndorf in 2009 and 2010. The loot is worth […]
Data protection watchdogs have given the go-ahead to take pictures of roads and house fronts across Austria for a controversial internet information service.The Austrian Data Protection Commission (DSK) announced yesterday (Thurs) that American IT firm Google was not banned any longer from taking panoramic views of Austrian towns and cities for its Street View portal. […]