Austrian prosecutors are refusing to investigate whether politicians in the region which houses the 'Ibiza in The Alps' resort covered up widespread coronavirus cases to save the ski season. The alarm was raised by local opposition politician Dominik Oberhofer, who is in charge of the Neos party in the southern…
Austrian customs officials have arrested a Turkish bus driver after he was found to be smuggling 21,000 unlicensed face masks into the country. The seizure of the masks comes as it was revealed that all non-essential operations were put under risk of being cancelled or postponed in the country because…
Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN A con artist who used 4 million EUR in victims money to play the stock market has been caged for three years despite attempts to return his ill-gotten gains after winning the lottery. The 57-year-old lotto winner was sentenced to three years in prison by a court in…
Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN This is photo of a worried mother duck “quacking incessantly” and standing watch as cops rescue her 11 ducklings after they fell down a manhole and got stuck in a drainage pipe. According to local media, the fluffy ducklings were waddling through a supermarket car park in the…
Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN An elderly farmer has replaced the back seats of his clapped-out Fiat Punto with bales of hay so that he could transport a Shetland pony home as a companion for his heartbroken horse. According to local media, stunned onlookers alerted the police when they spotted the pony on…
