A panda born in at Viennas Schönbrunn Zoo this summer has been named in an online vote.The animal, which tipped the scales at 4.5 kilograms earlier this month, is now called Fu Hu after 50.1 per cent of people participating in a poll picked the name which means “happy tiger”.Around 40.8 per cent wanted the […]
An Austrian has been found Germanys best chef by a prestigious restaurant guide.Salzburg-born Mario Lohninger was awarded the countrys Chef of the Year award by the German edition of Gault Millau today (Weds).Lohninger, who runs three eateries in the German city of Frankfurt, was praised for his “drive to discover and renew things” by the […]
Two thirds of Austrians surfing the internet do so on laptops, a survey has shown.State agency Statistik Austria said today (Weds) that 67 per cent of households with internet access are logging on to the World Wide Web on laptops and notebooks. Fewer than one in three (27 per cent) said the same five years […]
A theatre play focusing on the media hunt on Natascha Kampusch is playing to sold-out crowds at a Viennese theatre.”Die Beteiligten” by Kathrin Röggla, which is now on at the Akademietheater, portrays the publics reaction to the headline-hitting abduction drama and Kampuschs decision to give a TV interview just days after she managed to flee […]
Austrian chefs have been listed among the worst in Europe in a new survey.Chefs working at restaurants and hotels in the Alpine country only garnered three per cent of the votes handed in by 10,500 participants in the poll by internationally operating travel ratings platform Zoover.Only British, Swedish and Portuguese cooks did worse, while Italians […]
Smartphone users prefer free applications (apps), according to a telecommunications businessman.T-Mobile Austria head Robert Chvatal said today (Weds) customers of his company using so-called smartphones downloaded an average 20 apps of which 14 were available free of charge.”Games are the most popular downloads,” Chvatal announced, adding that T-Mobile Austria so far sold 200,000 Apple iPhone […]
Up to one out of three deaths in Upper Austrian are down to a sepsis, a leading doctor has claimed.Walter Hasibeder of the Barmherzige Schwestern Clinic in Ried im Innkreis said today (Weds) the cause of between every fifth to every third fatality was the inflammatory syndrome.Hasibeder stressed that the medical condition was often diagnosed […]
Liz Hurley has claimed people living in the countryside have more sex.The actress and anti-breast cancer campaigner said: “Id bet people living in the countryside are having more sex than city people simply because its sexier in the countryside!”Speaking to Austrian magazine Madonna, the 45-year-old “Austin Powers” star added: “When I close my eyes […]
Vienna may be among the European cities pop star Madonna is eyeing up as locations for her fitness centres.The award-winning singers management announced recently that she had plans to open 10 gyms in Brazil, Argentina, Asia and Europe. The branch will be called The Hard Candy Fitness Centers after her 2008 album “Hard Candy” which […]
This month has been the coldest October in more than 35 years, meteorologists have revealed.Experts at Viennas Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) announced today (Fri) the average temperature this month was just 7.8 degrees centigrade. They said this was the lowest figure since 1974.The meteorologists added Tannheim in the province of Tyrol recorded the […]