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Viennas bio enterprise Apeiron receives 200 million Euro from the British pharmaceutical giant Milestone. The reason for such a money rain is an agreement about a partnership between both enterprises.
The female vice mayor, finance, as well as economy councilwoman of Vienna, Renate Brauner, was the first one who sent her congratulations for that success. Viennas [...]

Austrias Broadcasting Corporation ORF reports a 56-year-old poet from Vienna who is accused of smirching slabs in the Viennese Museumsquartier, which is known as the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The trial is going to start on the 18th February. A twelve months imprisonment could be possible.
The passionate poet spreads his works on [...]

Austrian rail riders should never be in a hurry. Last year every third long-distance train arrived delayed. The reason of such a disastrous result is the high amount of construction zones.
The situation debases from year to year. In 2008 more trains arrived punctual. 2009 had an increase of 10 percent more delayed long-distance trains. A [...]

In an interview with a daily newspaper, the controversial Austrian pastor who also enjoys to watch football matches, declared that “Voodoo worship in Haiti is interesting.” Literally he said that “it’s interesting that there are 90 percent of Voodoo followers in Haiti.”
The pastor who was designated to be the next auxiliary bishop of Linz, had [...]

An emotional card game in a pub in the center of the province of Lower Austria caused two dead persons this week. A 76-year-old man knocked down his 67-year-old friend with a chair. When the victim died because of his injuries, the 76-year-old decided to hang himself.
Reason of the disagreement was the question if the [...]

Calculations of the National Bank of Austria revealed the fact that Austrians are not so much motivated anymore to save a lot of money. The national saving rate decreased from 12 down to 11,2 percent in the third quartal 2009.
Less money was invested into financial assets, and this is the reason of a “slower wealth [...]

Many people in Austria became the victim of internet crooks who offer cheap rental apartments at diverse internet portals. The problem is that those rental apartments are not existing in reality.
If the victims pay for key and rental agreement in advance without seeing the apartment, their money might be lost. In most of the cases [...]

A 28-year-old lady from Hamburg claims that she was knocked down by Austrian policemen in the early morning in the city centre of Vienna. The young lady tried to go by underground without buying a ticket.
She was caught and brought to the next police station. According to her allegations she was thrashed in a side [...]

Austrias building enterprises have more and more problems to surive on the market. Industry figures and representatives confirm low profit margins. If there is a small problem, a bankruptcy is quickly the consequence.
It happens with increasing frequency that constructions can’t be finished because the property developer became insolvent. A big problem if the buildings were [...]

A higher salary for policemen demands the leader of the Freedom party Heinz Christian Strache. During his latest press conference yesterday, he claimed that Austria stands close before a collapse of safety.
More money for policemen should improve the situation, he thinks. “Danger bonus for policemen”, is his newest election battle cry for the next election [...]

The 23-year-old Hollywood actor Lindsay Lohan from New York is going to visit Vienna on the 10th February. She was hired for advertising purposes by an 77-year-old Austrian master builder who runs a shopping mall in Viennas city center, and has to attend the famous Vienna Opera Ball with him.
In the afternoon she holds a [...]

The last year was a bad year for Austrias airports. A dramatic decrease of passengers cause anxious faces among the responsible persons.
Viennas airport Schwechat noted down a minus of 8,3 percent. The worst affected airport in Austria was Salzburgs International Airport “WA Mozart” with a decrease of 14 percent. The airport with the lowest minus [...]

Violence as performance art. An Austrian performance artist from the province of Vorarlberg wants to become famous by exercising violence against himself.
During an event in Tirols provincial capital Innsbruck he pushed his head against a metal plate for two hours. His face was already full of blood when the organizer stopped the event.
The name of [...]

The religious football supporter and pastor of a small Upper Austrian town, who was the suffragan bishop of Linz for just a few days, made it into the medias again. His new declaration can be read in the playbill of the festival called “Alte Musik” which takes place in the Viennese Konzerthaus, reports Austrias Broadcasting [...]

A 27-year-old lady from Vienna fell in love with a doctor, but she was too shy to tell him her feelings from face to face. She saw her only solution in sending him SMS. Anonymous.
At first the doctor seemed to be quite flattered. Later the text messages on his mobile phones became more and more [...]

Austrias sport shops were not able to discover the economic crisis in their sales. Even quite the opposite. Last year Austrias sport shops made record sales as never before.
Sales increased up to 2,1 billion Euro. The manager of the market leader explains: “Austrians have a pronounced health consciousness and doing sport is part of it.” [...]

It’s not a secret that Austrians are not so happy and satisfied anymore with the church. This also appears in the numbers of the secessions from the church. In 2009 even one third left the Roman Catholic church more than one year before.
There was a lot of trouble in 2009. Controversial statements of Feldkirchens bishop. [...]

One year ago the mayor of Vienna had the idea to build a huge ski-jumping hill in his city. Now medias report that the project is dead. There won’t be any chance for ski jumpers to do their sport in Austrias capital.
The two main problems were environment protection reasons and no support from Vienna. The [...]

A 35-year-old drunken man from Salzburg has bitten off the nose of a young lady. The unbelievable crime happened on three o’clock in the morning in a suburb of Salzburg.
The nose of the 28-year-old lady was truly separated by the sharp teeths of the drunkard. She had to be brought to hospital, reported Salzburgs police [...]

This years indoor football tournament in Salzburg was overshadowed with a beer cup throw. One supporter of the club called “Austria Salzburg” threw a half-full beer cup on the parquet. The reactions were emotional superheated.
Some people demand to exclude Austria Salzburg from the tournament in the future. The organizer don’t want to hear that. “We [...]

The city centre of Salzburg on this weeks Wednesday morning was the secene of a very vicious crime. A grandchild who lives with his granny suddenly turned out to be a well conditioned Samurai warrior. The geriatric host was attacked by her own grandchild with a Samurai sword.
Reason was a disagreement about going out for [...]

The Viennese district of Leopoldstadt was the scene of an armed robbery yesterday evening. A 40-50 year old man with Romanian passport jumped into the tobacconists shop with a silver gun and demanded money.
But instead of taking the money, the tobbaconist grasped a gun as well and shot the robber from a short distance. The [...]

Austrias white wine called “Veltliner” is becoming more and more popular in Germany, reports Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF. Now Austrian wines already caught up the French ones in the export to Germany.
Veltliner from the province of Lower Austria is the most popular of all Austrian white wines. Only German and Italian wines are more popular [...]

One seriously injured 39-year-old man was the result of a muffed Christmas party which was organized by a tinsmith enterprise in Carinthias capital Klagenfurt.
The guests were so unhappy and disappointed about the boring event that they started to riot and a rude free for all. One man was hit by fists of his opponent several [...]

A 23-year-old man from Austrias Western province Tirol decided that he don’t want to serve the Austrian army anymore. He escaped from the barracks and tried to hide himself. But the military police found him.
Yesterday he stood trial and was convicted to a financial penalty of 4.000 Euro. In court he explained that he prefered [...]

Austrias Freedom party has found a new enemy image. It’s Google. The constitutional spokesman of the party labels the latest statements of the Google boss as “plain and simple outrageous.”
Google boss Eric Schmidt said that his company is not responsible for data privacy. He also confirmed that “if you don’t want that someone knowns something [...]

Portentously coincidence in Styria. A 39-year-old wood carver carved a huge devil on the wooden door of a motorcycle club. It was the last order in his life. He died on his way home after a car accident.
The 34-year-old spent the whole day making a huge devils face into the wooden door of a motorcycle [...]

Severe controversies in the state parliament of Lower Austria. The Freedom party demands to close the borders of Austria to decrease the crime. Greens are talking about “racism”.
The Lower Austrian Freedom party whip Gottfried Waldhäusl explains: “70.000 offences of non-Austrians are enough. There is only one relief. We need to close our borders.” “Every one [...]

Viennas university for applied art has awarded an international competition for the reshaping of the Karl Lueger monument. Karl Lueger was the mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910. The Freedom party is not excited about such plan and labels the competition as “iconoclasm”.
“The monument should not be removed”, explains one of the responsible persons [...]

“Zero tolerance for open shops on 8th December”, was the motto of 250 Catholic demonstrators in the city centre of Salzburg yesterday. The ultra religious group called “Catholic Action” can’t endure open shops and busy humans with loads of shopping bags on December the 8th.
“Our 8th December is called Maria Empfängnis and not Maria Shopping”, [...]