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RSS Feed Around the World03. 08. 09. - 17:00
Prickly customer
Police are used to dealing with prickly customers, but perhaps never one quite like this.
Herbie the hedgehog triggered a full scale police rescue when he got trapped in a fence passing through Heinz Fischer's garden in Kaarst, Germany.
Officers freed the spiky specimen with bolt cutters before carrying him to a nearby field and releasing him back to the wild.
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Molten copper burns worker
A foundry worker, 31, has been hospitalised with severe burns after accidentally sticking his foot into a vat filled with molten copper at Schwaz in western Austria.
Frost decimates Austrian Xmas tree harvest
Xmas trees will be in short supply this year after a late frost that hit parts of Europe at the weekend was reported to have caused hundreds of millions of pounds worth of damage to young trees.
Golden retrieval
Crooks stole thousands of euros worth of jewellery and electronics equipment from a house at Hofkirchen im Traunkreis in northern Austria despite the fact that the owner had seven Golden Retriever dogs guarding the property.
Supancic sets sails
Mike Supancic is touring Austria.
Schönborn warns disobedient priests
Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn is upping the pressure on Helmut Schüller’s Preachers’ Initiative.
Mikl-Leitner fends off Prammer attack
People’s Party (ÖVP) Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has defended the plan to finalise the talks for the government’s transparency package this year.
Austrians concerned about EU unemployment
Joblessness is what worries Austrians the most, a poll regarding European issues shows.
BZÖ ends Stronach speculations
The Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) has finally dismissed the circulating rumours about teaming up with a billionaire businessman.
Foreign minister rules out stop of support for Greece
Austrian Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger has promised that the European Union (EU) will not let Greece down.
Incoming IHS boss says pension age must rise
The designated chief of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) has called for an increase of the retirement age.
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