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 The grieving family just wanted to see the body one last time before his cremation. But peeking into the coffin for the final farewell they got a shock: it was someone else. https://www.thelocal.at/20170321/funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:00:16 +0100 funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up A 48-year-old man from Edinburgh was tragically hit and killed by an Austrian Intercity train as he waited on the platform at Grillgasse station in Vienna’s Simmering district. https://www.thelocal.at/20170224/scottish-man-killed-by-high-speed-train-in-vienna Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:33:28 +0100 scottish-man-killed-by-high-speed-train-in-vienna A restaurant owner in Vienna’s 20th district is going to start serving free meals to homeless people after a woman who was sleeping rough recently burnt to death in the Austrian capital after trying to light a fire to keep herself warm. https://www.thelocal.at/20170120/tragic-death-inspires-restaurant-owner-to-serve-meals-to-homeless-people Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:49:27 +0100 tragic-death-inspires-restaurant-owner-to-serve-meals-to-homeless-people 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 man has been found dead on New York's Williamsburg Bridge, wearing a Halloween costume. https://www.thelocal.at/20161102/austrian-dressed-like-clockwork-orange-character-found-dead-in-new-york Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:08:20 +0100 austrian-dressed-like-clockwork-orange-character-found-dead-in-new-york Dominik Creazzi, "Paranormal Investigator" embossed on his jacket, strains his ears among the decaying tombstones of Vienna's central cemetery, the last resting place of three million mortals from Beethoven to "Rock Me Amadeus" singer Falco. https://www.thelocal.at/20161028/death-must-be-a-viennese-and-not-just-at-halloween Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:22:07 +0200 death-must-be-a-viennese-and-not-just-at-halloween An Austrian prostitute was convicted Monday over the death of a sadomasochist client left to die with a noose and a shoelace around his neck in a Vienna hotel room. https://www.thelocal.at/20160926/dominatrix-convicted-for-customers-strangulation-death Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:39:10 +0200 dominatrix-convicted-for-customers-strangulation-death A German hiker has become the latest to die in the Neustift im Stubaital region of Tyrol in Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20160817/german-hiker-is-latest-to-die-on-tyrol-mountain Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:39:41 +0200 german-hiker-is-latest-to-die-on-tyrol-mountain A 17-year-old refugee from Egypt leapt to his death from a train outside Munich on Friday morning after police found him carrying an Austrian deportation order. https://www.thelocal.at/20160311/refugee-jumps-to-death-from-moving-train-near-munich Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:21:49 +0100 refugee-jumps-to-death-from-moving-train-near-munich A 33-year-old Austrian climber died on Thursday when he fell 600 metres down the side of the Matterhorn after ascending the iconic 4,478-metre mountain in the Swiss canton of Valais with a colleague, also from Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150424/austrian-climber-dies-in-matterhorn-fall Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:10:30 +0200 austrian-climber-dies-in-matterhorn-fall A toddler was tragically killed at Ebelsberg train station in Linz on Wednesday when her pushchair rolled onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train whilst her mother was buying a ticket. https://www.thelocal.at/20150408/toddler-dies-after-pushchair-rolls-under-train Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:54:20 +0200 toddler-dies-after-pushchair-rolls-under-train Drinking a melange (a coffee with milk foam) in one of Vienna’s traditional cafes could soon become a pricey extravagance, as the strong dollar will make importing coffee more expensive. https://www.thelocal.at/20150303/prices-increase-on-austrias-favourite-beverage Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:20:00 +0100 prices-increase-on-austrias-favourite-beverage Police and fire department personnel broke down a door in Haymerlegasse 22 in Vienna's Ottakringer district on Sunday afternoon, to discover the body of a 35-year-old Turkish man. https://www.thelocal.at/20150125/body-discovery-triggers-murder-investigation Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:27:00 +0100 body-discovery-triggers-murder-investigation The German-speaking world was in mourning Monday for Austrian crooner and composer Udo Juergens who died suddenly in his adopted Swiss homeland -- in the middle of a tour -- aged 80. https://www.thelocal.at/20141222/obituary-udo-juergens Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:44:00 +0100 obituary-udo-juergens The 80-year-old Austrian entertainer Udo Jürgens died on Sunday from heart failure while walking in Switzerland. https://www.thelocal.at/20141221/austrian-entertainer-udo-jrgens-dead-at-80 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0100 austrian-entertainer-udo-jrgens-dead-at-80 Vienna seems to have cafes for everything these days - Internet, cats, breakfast and writers - but earlier this year saw the opening of the first Death Cafe. Freelance journalist Maddy French went along to check it out. https://www.thelocal.at/20141216/death-cafe-does-a-lively-business Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:38:00 +0100 death-cafe-does-a-lively-business A sailor from a passenger ship that was docking in the Vienna Danube Marina in Leopoldstadt died in the early hours of Saturday morning, after falling over the railing into the water, according to Vienna police. https://www.thelocal.at/20141101/sailor-dies-in-danube-ship-accident Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:11:00 +0100 sailor-dies-in-danube-ship-accident Just in time for Halloween on Friday and a weekend devoted to the dead, Vienna's unashamedly morbid Funeral Museum is now closer to the action: the Austrian capital's huge Central Cemetery. https://www.thelocal.at/20141030/funeral-museum-rises-from-the-dead Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:40:00 +0100 funeral-museum-rises-from-the-dead A four year study from the University of Southhampton in which 15 hospitals participated - including a few in Austria - seems to suggest that claims by patients about remembering events while clinically dead may have some validity. https://www.thelocal.at/20141010/multi-nation-study-offers-evidence-of-life-after-death Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:09:00 +0200 multi-nation-study-offers-evidence-of-life-after-death A 63 year-old German hiker from the Lindau district of Bavaria plunged to his death from a steep climbing track in Vorarlberg on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140918/german-hiker-dies-in-vorarlberg Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:19:56 +0200 german-hiker-dies-in-vorarlberg