https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A newborn baby died on Thursday after being abandoned by its mother in a toilet bin at Vienna airport, police said. https://www.thelocal.at/20161110/newborn-dumped-in-vienna-airport-bin-dies Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:31:11 +0100 newborn-dumped-in-vienna-airport-bin-dies An Austrian who may have been switched at birth is unlikely to ever meet her birth parents after a call for hundreds of women to come forward and be tested failed to find another switched baby. https://www.thelocal.at/20160722/baby-switch-victim-unlikely-ever-to-meet-real-mum Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:39:50 +0200 baby-switch-victim-unlikely-ever-to-meet-real-mum Tragedy was narrowly averted on Thursday when rescue services were called out to two cases of infants trapped in overheating cars. Meanwhile, temperatures soared over much of the country. https://www.thelocal.at/20160623/two-cases-of-babies-trapped-in-hot-cars Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:43:53 +0200 two-cases-of-babies-trapped-in-hot-cars A young Austrian mother who had gone missing while on holiday in Italy has been found dead along with her five-month-old baby, having committed suicide after killing the child. https://www.thelocal.at/20160523/tragedy-as-austrian-mother-found-dead-after-killing-her-baby Mon, 23 May 2016 13:31:22 +0200 tragedy-as-austrian-mother-found-dead-after-killing-her-baby Two mothers who had just given birth in a hospital in Graz were handed the wrong newborn babies after a nurse switched them by accident. https://www.thelocal.at/20160311/a-second-baby-switch-at-graz-hospital-austria Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:26:41 +0100 a-second-baby-switch-at-graz-hospital-austria A 35-year-old woman who gave birth to a baby girl at Vienna’s Westbahnhof underground train station on Tuesday night is in good health and recovering in hospital. https://www.thelocal.at/20160217/woman-gives-birth-on-metro-train-platform Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:05:31 +0100 woman-gives-birth-on-metro-train-platform A newborn boy who was found in a dustbin on Tuesday evening in Klagenfurt is now in a stable condition in hospital after almost dying of hypothermia. https://www.thelocal.at/20160107/newborn-found-abandoned-in-rubbish-bin Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:38:39 +0100 newborn-found-abandoned-in-rubbish-bin A newborn girl who was found abandoned in an apartment block in Liezen, Styria on Sunday has been adopted. https://www.thelocal.at/20150813/happy-ending-for-abandoned-baby Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:05:40 +0200 happy-ending-for-abandoned-baby In a first for Austria, a 60-year-old woman has given birth to twins in a clinic in Wels-Grieskirchen in Upper Austria, following IVF treatment. https://www.thelocal.at/20150226/sixty-year-old-gives-birth-to-twins Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:29:00 +0100 sixty-year-old-gives-birth-to-twins A young woman from Vienna received a three month conditional sentence on Tuesday for abandoning her newborn baby in a stairwell. https://www.thelocal.at/20150210/three-months-for-mum-who-abandoned-baby Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:19:00 +0100 three-months-for-mum-who-abandoned-baby A desperate young father realized only after exiting the carriage of the U6 metro train that he'd left his baby on board. https://www.thelocal.at/20150125/man-leaves-baby-on-u6-metro Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:26:00 +0100 man-leaves-baby-on-u6-metro A two-year-old boy had a lucky escape when he fell around four metres from a window in Vienna’s Simmering district, escaping without serious injury. https://www.thelocal.at/20140912/toddlers-window-fall-saved-by-bushes Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:52:54 +0200 toddlers-window-fall-saved-by-bushes The mother of a newborn baby left abandoned in the stairwell of a Vienna apartment block has been tracked down by police. https://www.thelocal.at/20140910/mother-of-abandoned-newborn-found Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:53:18 +0200 mother-of-abandoned-newborn-found Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby, found abandoned in the stairwell of a Vienna apartment block on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140908/newborn-girl-found-in-vienna Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:54:46 +0200 newborn-girl-found-in-vienna Police who stopped a man who ran several red lights in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus in Vienna took on more than they bargained for when it turned out the man’s wife was in labour. https://www.thelocal.at/20140822/traffic-cops-helped-deliver-baby-boy Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:42:00 +0200 traffic-cops-helped-deliver-baby-boy An Austrian student living in Brazil found an abandoned baby in a box and saved its life. https://www.thelocal.at/20140822/austrian-student-finds-baby-in-box-in-brazil Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:48:19 +0200 austrian-student-finds-baby-in-box-in-brazil A mountain rescue team climbed to the aid of a pregnant woman who went into early labour in the Austrian Alps in Tyrol. https://www.thelocal.at/20140813/baby-born-in-alps-at-2250-metres Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:34:00 +0200 baby-born-in-alps-at-2250-metres The mother of a dead baby found inside a rubbish bin in the toilet of an Austrian train heading for Munich was released on bail in June. https://www.thelocal.at/20140702/train-baby-mama-released-on-bail Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:44:00 +0200 train-baby-mama-released-on-bail