An elderly Austrian drove 40 kilometres (km) to the nearest hospital after being stabbed outside a casino in the Czech Republic, it has emerged.The 63-year-old businessman from Vienna said today (Thurs) he was attacked by a masked man as he was cleaning snow and ice off his car at the car park of a casino […]
Avalanche hospitalises skier
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An off-piste skier has been hospitalised after coming under an avalanche near Tux in Tyrols Ziller Valley.Mountain rescue authorities in the provinces Schwaz district said today (Weds) the Austrian suffered serious injuries to his pelvis when he was buried by the avalanche which raced down off groomed slopes at the Hintertuxer glacier this morning.They said […]
A teenage learner driver caused a head-on collision when he got distracted by the sizzling sound of a can of fizzy lemonade in the back of the car.The driver of the oncoming car the 17-year-old ploughed into during his driving lesson in Sierning, Upper Austria, suffered serious injuries in the accident. Fire-fighters had to use […]
‘UFO crash’ concerns rock Tyrol
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A spaceship of aliens may have crashed in the Austrian Alps, extraterrestrial life enthusiasts have claimed.The German Central Research Centre for Celestial Phenomena (CENAP) announced today (Weds) that a man spotted a “glowing fireball” cruising across the sky in the Tyrolean Alps around 8.30pm yesterday evening.CENAP said the Austrian could have been witness of an […]
An Austrian businessman has been sentenced for selling luxury goods to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il for more than 20 years.Judges at the Criminal Court of Vienna yesterday (Mon) found the entrepreneur guilty of having breached the international trade embargo issued on the dictatorial regime.The defendant sold eight Mercedes-Benz S-Class limousines and two yachts worth […]
A Viennese woman has been given a 7,000-Euro fine for feeding pigeons with bacon and sweet corn.Neighbours launched legal action against the woman as her activities after thousands of city pigeons to the housing estate in Vienna-Floridsdorf.Judges heard yesterday (Mon) how the 63-year-old provided the pigeons which are considered as a nuisance by many […]
A Viennese teenager was seriously injured when he got stuck on a driveway gate as he tried to climb over it on Saturday night.Alexander P., 18, was on his was home from a party in the citys Döbling district when he attempted to enter the private property by climbing over the gate for unclear reasons. […]
Austrian police are cooperating with their Italian colleagues in a new pilot project.Carabinieri Lorenzo Galli and Paolo de Biasi will join Austrian police officers on patrol at the Christmas markets of Innsbruck, Tyrol, during the next few weeks.The Italian policemen said today (Fri) they will try to reduce communication troubles when their fellow countrymen become […]
An Austrian solider faces legal charges for giving the Nazi Salute while on an international peacekeeping mission.The 19-year-old member of the militia branch of the Austrian army is accused of racially insulting Bosnians and an Austrian solider of Turkish origin at a recent birthday party in Bosnia-Herzegovina.Austria currently participates in the United Nations(UN) peacekeeping mission […]
State prosecutors have ordered an autopsy after the body of a young man was discovered in a public toilet in Graz.Reports by local media have it that the 23-year-old, who was found lying on the floor of a public lavatory near the opera yesterday (Thurs), was addicted to drugs.The Federal Institute for Health said recently […]