Austria: Doctors say 5 people given tainted drinks at Vienna bar are recovering

September 30th, 2009 Finnish skier Sandell badly injured in crashVIENNA — Finnish Alpine skier Marcus Sandell has had his left kidney removed in a hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, after badly crashing during a training run on the nearby Pitztaler glacier. According to Finnish news agency STT, the 22-year old Sandell hurt his kidney, spleen and back and broke his nose and hand Monday after coming off the course and falling.

September 18th, 2009 VIENNA - Archaeologists have unearthed three Roman military camp sites archaeologists in Burgenland, Austria, which they say will rewrite the history of the Romans in the country. According to Weiner Zeitung, Stefan Groh, the leader of the Austrian Archeological Institute (OAI) team that discovered the sites, said that the three camp sites near Strebersdorf in Burgenland's Lutzmannsburg municipality were along the old amber road, the main Roman trading road in the region.

September 17th, 2009 Austria: Man convicted for flame-thrower killingsVIENNA — An Austrian court has convicted a man for killing his in-laws by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower. The court in the southern city of Graz sentenced the 49-year-old, who was not identified by name, to 12 years in prison for the October 2008 incident.

August 20th, 2009 Ticket site swamped for Jackson tribute in ViennaVIENNA — Fans have swamped the Web site offering tickets for next month's global Michael Jackson tribute in Vienna. Some 85,000 passes for the Sept.

June 21st, 2009 Austria: Vigil held for Iranian victimsVIENNA — At least a thousand people have held a vigil in support of Iranian opposition protesters and victims of the country's regime. The participants, many of Iranian origin, sang folk songs and laid candles and flowers on the steps of Austria's parliament.

June 17th, 2009 Austria: Man convicted of glorifying Nazi ideasVIENNA — An Austrian court has convicted a man of glorifying Nazi ideology and sentenced him to two years in prison. The court in the southern city of Klagenfurt found the 85-year-old man, who was not identified, guilty Wednesday of "re-engaging" in Nazi-era beliefs.

June 9th, 2009 VIENNA - Hardeep Singh, 33, a suspect in the May 24 shootout at the Guru Ravidass Gurdwara here in which a sect leader was killed, remains in custody awaiting deportation to India. Hardeep was released from preventive detention last Friday for want of evidence of his involvement in the murder of Sant Rama Nand Dass, the 57-year-old leader of the Dera Sach Khand sect that sparked widespread violence in Punjab.

June 3rd, 2009 Austria: Fritzl moved to long-term prisonVIENNA — An official says Josef Fritzl has been moved to the prison where he will serve his life sentence for imprisoning and repeatedly raping his daughter for 24 years. Prison management official Peter Prechtl says Fritzl was transferred from Vienna's Mittersteig jail to the Stein facility in Lower Austria province Wednesday morning.

June 2nd, 2009 VIENNA - Some 500 Ravidassis from around Europe gathered in Vienna to pay their last respects to Dera Sachh Khand leader Sant Rama Nand Dass who was shot dead at the Ravidass gurdwara here last month, leading to violence in India. The body of the slain guru was laid out at Vienna's main cemetery as requested by his followers.

May 31st, 2009 VIENNA - The remains of Dera Sachh Khand leader Ramanand Dass, who was killed in a clash at a gurdwara here, will be brought to India by sect head Niranjan Dass in a few days, an Austrian official said Sunday. The killing had sparked widespread violence in the Indian state of Punjab.

May 29th, 2009 Austria: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull drinkVIENNA — Austria's health ministry says traces of cocaine have been found in samples of Red Bull Cola energy drinks. Spokeswoman Sigrid Rosenberger says the traces are very slight and do not pose a health risk.

May 29th, 2009 The good image of Indians in Austria has been damaged by the killing of a Sikh leader in Vienna, say members of the 15,000 strong community in the European nation. "Sikhs, and Indians in general, who have been to date viewed favourably - as willing to integrate, friendly and peaceful, have now lost the general goodwill of most Austrians.

May 13th, 2009 Ex-KKK head Duke in Austria after Czech expulsionVIENNA — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has come to Austria after being ordered to leave the Czech Republic. Duke's Klan past and suspicions that he questioned the existence of the Holocaust caused Czech authorities to cancel his lectures in Prague and Brno.

May 3rd, 2009 Austria: Suspect arrested in poisoning of 5 peopleVIENNA — Police in Vienna say they have arrested a man suspected of poisoning five people by serving them tainted drinks at a bar. Authorities in the Austrian capital said the unidentified suspect was taken into custody after witnesses said they saw the man offer the victims drinks.

March 3rd, 2009 VIENNA - The tenure of Austria coach Karel Brueckner was cut short Monday, when the Austrian football association (OeFB) announced it had severed its contract with the seasoned Czech trainer after a string of losses. The 69-year-old coach had taken over the team last July after Austria's unsuccessful showing at the Euro 2008 championships.