Austria News

According to the latest news of Austrias biggest newspaper this morning, the mother who locked up her three daughters over 7 years was afraid of extraterrestrial aliens. Obviously she locked her daughters because she thought extraterrestrial aliens could kidnap them. At the moment the mother is in jail and waiting for her trial. The three [...]

News about the case of the three girls who were locked up by their insane mother for 7 years. According to the latest statements of the Education Authority, something must be wrong with that story. Now the responsible Education Authority for the three children catches the speaker’s eye. “We are not guilty, and we have [...]

Two men, 25 and 27 years old, were arrested by the police last Saturday evening in the Styrian town of Knittelfeld because they were dancing on car roofs. Obviously too much consumption of alcohol and the old superhit from Leo Sayer “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing”, put them in the cheeky mood to jump [...]

The threefold mother was going to crack up after her divorce with a lawyer from Linz. The 53-year-old woman, a lawyer aswell, took her daughters and locked them up in her flat on the Pöstlingberg hill, in the northern part of Linz. She drew the curtains, removed all light bulbs in the house, and canceled [...]

Next Wednesday is Valentine’s Day. According to a survey, Austrians want to spend less money this year as usual. Still more men as women are buying gifts on that special day in Austria. The men also spend more money. Gifts from men have statistically 10 EUR more value as the gifts women are buying. The [...]

Who makes the best chocolate in Austria, Switzerland and Germany? The “Austrian Chocolate Master” in the Viennese Hofburg should answer this question. 14 confectioner teams from Austria, Switzerland and Germany, came to Vienna to fight for the master title of the best chocolate maker. The two biggest favourite teams for the sweet title are “Cafe [...]

Malta, the island with 400.000 inhabitants, almost beated Austria in a football friendly match yesterday evening. A lucky deflected free kick by Greek legionnaire Andreas Ivanschitz in the 49th minute to the 1:1 equalizer, saved Austria from a total disaster. The Austrian team played slow without emotion and motivation. Even Austria coach Josef Hickersberger confessed [...]

While other holiday destinations in Austria do specifically advertising in Russia to get more Russian tourists, the Tirolean town of Kitzbuhel is different. Kitzbuhel don’t want to be a holiday destination for Russians. The tourism director of Kitzbuhel gave order to the hotels, not to take more than 10% Russian guests for each hotel. The [...]

In the federal state of Carinthia two criminals dressed as policemen obtained access to the flat of a 97-year-old woman and stole 1.100 EUR. During the time when one man diverted the aged woman by a chat in the kitchen, the other one was searching in the womans sleeping room for money and found 1.100 [...]

Usually it’s quite calm in the Upper Austrian town of Ulrichsberg on the three countries corner Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. But plans for a cross country ski centre outside of the town cause anger and resistance among politicans of the green party. The Greens are against the project because a 25.000 square metres large [...]

The parliamentary party leader of the Freedom Party Ewald Stadler is upset about the invitation politics of the Austrian TV station “ORF” for its Sunday evening talk show. Ewald Stadler: “How it’s possible party members of the Socialdemocrats, Peoples Party, and even the Greens are invited, but no one from the Freedom Party? The ORF [...]

A local politican from the Socialdemocratic party A local politician from the Socialdemocratic party bit the fingers of a critical opponnent. The Socialdemocrat went to his favourit haunt in Burgenlands capital Eisenstadt to drink, have fun, and meet with friends. During the evening the politican was involved in an emotional political discussion with some young [...]

Today is the opening of the VenusMed-centre in the shopping mall “Lugner City”, located in the heart of Vienna. VenusMed is the first sex-centre which offers sexual medical treatments in a shopping mall in Austria. “We care for the healthy effect of a well-balanced sexual life”, says the manager of the VenusMed Brigitte Moshammer-Peter. “One [...]