News Archive for February 2015

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02 February
- 1,200 police for Vienna Pegida spinoff rally
- Women used 'rape drug' to rob men
- Vandals daub swastikas at Mauthausen memorial
- Austrian-born 'father of the pill' dies
- Swastikas on mosque as Pegida march looms
- Pegida demo is a damp squib
03 February
- Baby abuser 'posted video on Facebook'
- Verdict: Nine things to know before dating an Austrian
- Prison missing supplies of loo paper and soap
- Police check footage from Pegida debut
- Illegal brothels disguised as massage parlours
- Man strangled ex-wife with shoelace
04 February
- Vienna's Pegida spokesman steps down
- Dog poisoner on the loose in Pressbaum
- Missing family of five 'has joined jihad'
- Austria's shadow economy booming
- Why most UK expats will shun general election
05 February
- Bulgarian media fines worry OSCE
- Austrian appeals to Pope to stop noisy night bell
- Men abandon boy after fall from ski lift
- Austria's growth prospects downgraded
- Cheeky opera guest in scuffle with cops
06 February
- 75-year-old woman dies in toboggan accident
- Police arrest Vienna bomb hoax caller
- Chechen shot dead in Salzburg market town
- Austria's health minister confirms she has cancer
- Siemens to slash 7,800 jobs in restructure
- Large WW2 bomb being defused in Vienna
- Pegida plans march in Linz on Sunday
07 February
- Bomb threat closes U6 metro station Handelskai
- Austrian chancellor opposes arming Ukraine
08 February
- Neo-Nazi vandals plague Salzburg
- Pegida in Linz meets fierce resistance
- Sixty cars in massive pileup on West Autobahn
09 February
- Greek PM 'optimistic' about deal with EU
- Poll: 'Islam does not belong in Austria'
- Lost skiers in dramatic Dachstein rescue
- Red Bull boss subjected to Nazi slur
- Snow and wind cause Vienna airport delays
- Austrian gets life for murdering step-daughter
- Pensioner stole undies worth €1,100
10 February
- Mirren premieres Nazi loot film in Berlin
- OECD: Austria should lower wage tax
- Woman bitten by rattlesnake at reptile zoo
- Life in Austria is 'great songwriting material'
- Three masked armed robbers hit Graz jeweller
- 'Pink Panther' fences arrested in Vienna
- Three months for mum who abandoned baby
- Woman awarded €1,550 for headscarf jibe
11 February
- Ten very peculiar Austrian superstitions
- Woman sues over botched breast boost
- Australia likely to join Eurovision Song Contest
- Would you buy this bank for a dollar?
12 February
- Opera ball brings colour and cultural highlights
- UK threatens retaliation over nuclear spat
- Fake name renter grows 1,100 cannabis plants
- Schwarzenegger to get lifetime film award
- Behind-the-scenes on the set of James Bond
- Terror arrest of Chechen jihadist in Vienna
- Kosovo asks for its refugees back
- Austrian teen jihadist 'likely killed' in Syria
13 February
- Trans prostitute murder suspect arrested
- Canalis' breast slips out at Opera Ball
- Hotel staffed by refugees opens in Vienna
- Austrians see Greece as 'least trustworthy'
- UN envoy: Assad 'part of solution' in Syria
- Be my Denglisch Valentine, Liebling
- Study: Dogs can read basic human emotions
- Austria's credit rating downgraded
14 February
- Background on the OSCE and Ukraine
- Your next car might be made by Apple
15 February
- Last days of Krapfen time before Lent
16 February
- Thousands of lost children reach Austria
- Armed man threatens murder in divorce fight
- Police hunt 'selfie' bandit
- Neo-Nazi number plate ban mulled
- Austrian children to get free braces from July
- Two and a half years for bedridden dealer
17 February
- 'Jews welcome' as Denmark mourns
- Brit tourist dies in toboggan ride
- Austrian company is world's third best brand
- Ash Wednesday treats for the hard of herring
- Naked man assaults police in Vorarlberg
- BMW wrecked in jilted lover's revenge
18 February
- Austria still a paradise for pensioners
- Austria's population increases to 8.58 million
- Last Eurovision ticket sales wave set
- Man killed wife and then crashed car in tunnel
- Police warn of hit and runs on Austria's slopes
- Three injured on Austrian set of Bond movie
- Man blackmailed with online sex video
19 February
- Bomb threat closes Vienna's Meidling station
- Prosecutors investigate match-fixing claim
- Nazi ritual murder suspect 'mentally ill'
- 'Burning man' plans new record attempt
- Suspect 'Isis' house turns out to be drug den
- Launch of Vienna's mobility card delayed
- Far-right leader sues ORF over gay claim
20 February
- London laps up Austrian gourmet cuisine
- Prison guard 'used power to get sex'
- Jogger arrested for having dog off leash
- Austria helps bust counterfeit gang
23 February
- Linz's second Pegida demo rings up €250,000
- 13 million Sim cards in Austria 'hacked'
- Same-sex partnerships on the rise again
- Ten things you are likely to hear at an Austrian workplace
24 February
- Two injured after Vienna shootings
- Kazakh ex-diplomat found dead in Vienna jail
- Saudi blogger's wife appeals to Austria
25 February
- Austrian pioneers mind-controlled bionic hand
- Many cigarette brands set to raise prices
- Islam teacher reinstated after 'Paris comments'
- Poll: Majority fear radicalization of Muslims
- Amnesty slams Austria’s treatment of prisoners
- British teen survives dangerous ski selfie
- New Austrian law 'combats Islamization'
- Measles threatens a comeback across Europe
26 February
- Charlize Theron adds glamour to Life Ball
- How to avoid saying things you'll later regret
- Six months for Isis Facebook postings
- Sixty-year-old Austrian gives birth to twins
- Could diary hold clue to Aliyev death?
27 February
- Sedative found in dead Kazakh dissident's blood
- 'Put Put Putin' song a surprise YouTube hit
- The Sound of Music - 50 years on
- UN weighs in on 'unjust' disabled access case
28 February
- Retired judge acquitted in Kampusch case