Canny undertakers in Vienna are planning to use the heat loss of cremations to heat their new headquarters.The city government-owned Bestattung Wien undertaker company said today (Fri) that its new main office at the Viennese Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) in Simmering district will be heated with waste heat produced from cremations carried out at the adjacent […]
The discovery of a wartime hand grenade caused panic in Vienna yesterday (Tues).Workers called the police after unearthing the World War Two era grenade during excavation activities at a building site in Landstraße district yesterday morning, police in the capital announced today.Explosives experts of the federal interior ministry, who were alerted by police, secured the […]
The Austrian foreign ministry has appealed to tourists travelling to Tunisia to stay away from demonstrations.At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds injured in street riots which recently broke out as young Tunisians demonstrated against soaring foodstuff prices and a lack of perspectives in the country.The ministry announced yesterday (Mon) the safety level […]
A police officer who mistook an African-American teacher for a drug dealer has been fined by a court nearly two years after the incident which made international headlines.Mike Brennan from Jacksonville, Florida, who works at Vienna International School (VIS), went on sick leave for several weeks after the incident in February 2009 in which he […]
Landlord ‘nailed up tenants’ doors’
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A ruthless landlord boarded up the doors of several elderly tenants apartment, according to a report.The Kronen Zeitung reports today (Mon) that more and more victims of the Viennese businessman have come forward after having exposed his actions earlier this year.The daily newspaper accuses the man of nailing up the doors of apartments of tenants […]
A German man lost his licence after he was caught speeding by a radar trap three times on the same day.Traffic police followed and stopped the 28-year-old tourist after the third offence in the town centre of Innsbruck, Tyrol, yesterday (Sun). Officials said today the man was going at 120 kilometres per hour (kph) in […]
Vienna hotel evacuated after blaze
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More than 200 tourists had to be evacuated from a hotel in Vienna city centre when a fire broke out in an adjacent restaurant on Saturday morning.No one was seriously injured in the incident, but an elderly couple from Germany were hospitalised over possible smoke poisoning.Fire-fighters decided to evacuate the 217 sleeping guests and staff […]
A worker suffered severe injuries when he plunged into a container of boiling water.The 39-year-old man from Kirchbach wanted to empty the cooling water basin at the Marienhütte steel factory in Graz, Styria, when he slipped and fell into it. He sustained second degree burns all over his body.The workers was transferred to the citys […]
Paraglider dies after hitting rocks
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A 31-year-old paraglider died instantly after crashing against a rock face yesterday (Thurs).The man from Linz, Upper Austria, was paragliding in a mountainous area in the Styrian district of Liezen. He was already dead when a helicopter rescue team discovered him shortly after the incident around 3pm.Only last week, a 35-year-old Tyrolean paraglider was killed […]
An Austrian newspaper has been sentenced to pay thousands of Euros in compensation to a Slovak student for printing a picture from her Facebook page as reporters mistook her for a murdered prostitute.Viennese tabloid Österreich was ordered to transfer 20,000 Euros to Lucia Rehakova. Reporters covering a series of brutal killings of prostitutes across Austria […]