Three people were injured when a motorist crashed into two trams in Vienna yesterday (Thurs).The man collided with a line 6 tram before plowing into a tram on the number 71 line after he ignored the red light at a crossing in the Simmering district. The driver, his front-seat passenger and one tram passenger suffered […]
An opera star has said that she was kicked out of a taxi for being black.Afro-American soprano Angel Blue said today (Thurs) that she was ordered to get out of a cab in Vienna moments after she entered it.Weekly magazine News reports the singer as saying: “The driver said: I don’t drive black women – […]
An elderly Viennese man collapsed and died after he was mugged in a shop yesterday (Weds).Supermarket staff and paramedics failed to resuscitate the 63-year-old who passed out after getting worked up and panicked about his wallet being stolen by a man while he did his shopping at the store in the Alsergrund district.Reports have it […]
An investment consultant has been sentenced to prison for gambling away more than 400,000 Euros of customers money.Judges in Graz, Styria, heard yesterday (Weds) how the 36-year-old man promised high interest rates to his clients in order to compensate his rising gambling debts.The accused who has been addicted to sports wagering for years […]
The chief manager of a train service connecting Vienna International Airport (VIA) and the capitals city centre in just 16 minutes has apologised after customers were forced to wait in the cold.People using the City Airport Train (CAT) to get from Viennas Landstraße station to the airport complained about the terminal being unheated for several […]
A Romanian politician is to undergo pancreas surgery in Austria, it has been reported.Online newspaper Romanian Times reports today (Thurs) that Democratic Liberal Party MP Teo Trandafir needs to go under the knife at Viennas General Hospital (AKH).The 42-year-old MPs condition has worsened in the past days, according to the report. Trandafir a former […]
Two men were injured trying to separate their fighting dogs yesterday afternoon (Tues).The dog owners suffered various injuries as they tried to stop their canines a terrier and a wolfhound from fighting after an encounter in Sonnberg near Liezen, Styria.The men aged 58 and 68, who did not know each other, were bitten […]
A Tyrolean farmer may be jailed for refusing to vaccinate his animals against blue tongue disease.Albin Wegscheider from Oberhofen said today (Weds) that he feared the vaccine may have had negative effects on the health of his cows and goats. He said the information leaflet about the drug warned that side effects on the general […]
Vienna has dropped from second to third place in a ranking of the most liveable cities in the world.The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) announced today (Tues) it considered the Canadian city of Vancouver which hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics as the best place to live on the planet for a fifth year in […]
Traffic on a busy railway connection in Tyrol had to be stopped for three hours due to the discovery of a wartime bomb.The World War Two (WWII) bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was found by workers renovating a railway bridge near the town of Roppen yesterday (Mon).No one was injured when explosives experts sent by […]