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The provincial capital of Tirol is afraid of the conflict between Turkish and Kurdish immigrants.
The conflict in the borderland of Turkey and Iraq, between Turks and Kurds, is also becoming a problem in Austria.

Last Sunday 100 Turkish and Kurdish immigrants were having a street fight in the city centre of Innsbruck. Residents and tourists were […]

The closing of a hotel in Carinthia was a true inspiration for hundreds of people to storm the hotel and loot the furniture.
Maybe it was not a good idea of a local newspaper to write about the closing. On the following night, the night guard had to face hundreds of people who wanted the furniture […]

The police of Austrias federal province Vorarlberg is worried and upset.
The citizens of Austrias most Western federal state do not respect the police anymore. The policemen have to notice more and more resitance against the authority of the state.

According to a public prosecutor of the province, the attacks on policemen increased explosively. Policemen in Vorarlberg […]

On October 24, 2007, the newly honoured Peace Nobel Prize Laureate and former US presidential candidate Al Gore, paid Vienna a short visit before rushing off to Paris for a meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy the following day.
Invited by Mobilkom Austria, Austria’s largest Mobile Phone Provider, Gore was the keynote speaker for the mobile.futuretalk […]

The traditional ski opening in Austria usually starts at the beginning of December, but the weather makes it possible much earlier this year.
The first ski areas in Austria are going to open this weekend.

Also many ski areas in Austrias federal state Styria open tomorrow. Skiers, snowboarders and cross country skiers will invade the whole province […]

According to the new decision of the Court of Chancery, ticket inspectors are allowed to hold people in public transports and check their tickets.
So far Austrian ticket inspectors were not allowed to hold fare dodgers. If a fare dodger run away and escaped, the ticket inspector was not allowed to chase him.

Now this law was […]

The boss of the orange BZÖ party Peter Westenthaler, reported the Lower Austrian green politican Madeleine Petrovic to the police.
Petrovic has declared during an event this month, that she is going to help hiding illegal immigrants. Westenthaler don’t want to accept such kind of help, and wants to see his political colleague punished.

Now the police […]

A 24-year-old man broke down with a cardiac arrest in the early morning hours last Sunday in Salzburg.
Before his breakdown he was rioting in a “rock house”. He attacked guests and damaged furnishings.

This was probably too much for him. Outside the event location he sustained a cardiac arrest and broke down.
The security service attempted resuscitation. […]

Vienna has the doubtful honour to be the venue of the worlds first exhibition for divorces.
Every second marriage gets divorced in Austria. This created a new industry around the break-up of couples. People make money with divorces.

The consequential result of such a development is an exhibition for those who earn money with that.
On the 27th […]

The believers of a little village in the Carinthian Metnitztal valley are shocked and upset about their priest.
He destroyed a wall with graves in the cemetery. Some graves were opened and the overburden was littered with bones.

The owner of the graves were not informed about the plans of the priest. They reported the priest to […]

The 15-year-old Kosovan girl, Arigona Zogaj, who escaped her deportation from Austria, is back in her school in Vöcklamarkt.
During the past two weeks Arigona was hiding herself from police to avoid her deportation. She also sent video messages to politicans and menanced to kill herself, if she is not allowed to stay in Austria.

Interior Minister […]

A survey of the IFES-institute shows the wishes and thoughts of the female Austrians.
Most of the women in Austria want to be employed, and don’t want to see their job as “necessary evil”. The job should be part of their “self created” life.

The survey was made on order by Austrians women minister Doris Bures of […]

AustriaNews.co.uk has a new record of visitors!
On Friday the 12th October 2007 2.257 people, who made 3.602 clicks, were visiting AustriaNews.co.uk.

The reason of this rush of visitors was a link at www.stumbleupon.com, about the story of the rapist in Vorarlberg who won the trial against his victim.
The story who caused the second most amount of […]

Usually it should be something natural that there is a good water quality in the swimming pools of Austrias spa hotels.
But a test should the opposite.
Only one fifth of the reviewed swimming pools had water according to the Austrian bathhouses hygienic law. The test was made by the spa hotel guide “Relax Guide”. The swimming […]

A very bizarre murder happened in the Lower Austrian town of Neunkirchen yesterday evening.
A 76-year-old man from Turkey shot his 58-year-old workmate in the open street, and cut his penis off.

It happened at about 10:00pm. The 76-year-old pulled the trigger of his scatter-gun, and stretched his workmate down by one single shot. Then he removed […]

The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber wanted to know what tourists think about Viennese citizens, and made a survey.
The result was definitely pleasant. “The Viennese are friendly”, was the conventional wisdom.

About 400 tourists were questioned. They are satisfied with the friendliness, but the best rating received the Viennese hotel business with a grade of 1,5.
The gastronomy […]

The demonstration against the immigration policy of the government was organized by the green party.
The protests took place on the Minoritenplatz square. It was the spokeswoman of the Greens, Eva Glawischnig, who demanded the resignation of Austrias Interior Minister Günther Platter (Peoples Party).

Other protsters wants to have “free borders” and “unlimited right of residence for […]

Austria had more popular health ministers in its history as the present one. Now doctors in Austria are even going on strike, to protest against the new law in the health system.
A strike of doctors in Austria is something very unsusual, but Austrias health minister made it possible to displease them in a way, they […]

On Saturday the town of Frankenburg in Upper Austria, was the scene of a demonstration for declined Albanian asylum seekers from Kosovo.
The family was taken back to their homeland, but one girl of the family escaped, hides herself from the police, and sends video messages to politicans. In her video messages she demands a permission […]

Is it such a bad reputation to be an inhabitant of the Viennese city district Hernals?
It seems like that, because the residents of a certain street in Hernald don’t want to belong to their city district anymore.

The street is located on the border to the city district of Währing, but still in the district area […]

The UEFA European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland brings not only the best football nations, a lot of football fans, and huge amounts of journalists to our country.
The huge football event now also brings open shops on a Sunday.

The discussion if shops should open on Sunday or not, lasted several months. Usually all […]

The central area of Vienna, in the district of Margareten, was the location of a very unusual incident.
A man tried to dry off chili pepper in his microwave. Result: the fire brigade had to come, and residents had to wear breathing protection.

It was a very pungent smell out of the tenement on the Margaretenplatz square […]

The 42-year-old man from Bosnia, who lives currently in Lower Austria, entered yesterday at lunchtime the embassy of the USA in Vienna.
When he crossed the security door, the metal detector raised alarm. There were two grenades and a nail bomb in his backpack.

The Bosnian escaped out of the door, and dropped his backpack on the […]

The green party of Austria complains about a “horrific opacity” of election campaign expenses of Socialdemocrats and Peoples Party.
The Greens want a new law which should promise harsh sanctions if the allowed volume of election campaign expenses exceeds.

During the last election campaign both parties were talking about 17,3 and 14,5 mio EUR, but the expenses […]