News Archive for August 2015

Here you can find articles published in August 2015. Return to full archive here

03 August
- Slovakian village doesn't want Austria’s migrants
- Injury leaves Austrian pole vaulter paralyzed
- Man photographs would-be burglars
- Man escapes unhurt after falling under metro train
- Marines held in Austria for weapons violations
04 August
- Austrians second in EU for big-game hunting
- Four-year-old stabbed to death by mother
- Next heatwave forecast for Austria
- Krems arsonist was volunteer fireman
- Elderly farmer trampled to death by cow
05 August
- Efforts to improve 'inhumane' camp
- Fritzi the wolf still on the loose in Styria
- Baby crushed and killed by tractor
- 10,000 users a week for Vienna Wi-Fi hotspots
06 August
- Islamic State threatens Germany and Austria
- School holidays ‘bad for spelling and maths’
- Ten wonderfully literal German words
- Four ways to help refugees in Austria
- Avoiding the ‘pursuer distancer’ dance
07 August
- Wallet lost during WWII returned to US soldier
- Man and two children die in house fire
- Danube is ‘Europe’s favourite river’
- Vienna apartments evacuated after CO scare
10 August
- More than 125 migrants found on motorways
- Six mind-blowing Austrian landmarks
- Row over container homes for refugees
- Runaway kangaroo seen in Upper Austria
11 August
- Mystery of missing 15,000 kilos of apricots
- Heatwave 'makes people more aggressive'
- Video shows alleged police violence in Vienna
12 August
- Contraceptive pill ‘alters women's behaviour’
- Women's urinals get scrapped in Salzburg
- Hottest summer since records began
- Seven brainteasers to honour Schrödinger
13 August
- 200 migrants stranded on road and rail tracks
- Threats for pastor who rang bells for refugees
- Happy ending for abandoned baby
- Hungarian neo-Nazis take Austrian mini-break
14 August
- 'No respect' for human rights at Traiskirchen camp
- 'Peeping Tom' caught out in supermarket
- Austria's museum for useless inventions
17 August
- Austria rejects calls for German border controls
- Hunter killed by lightning bolt
- Daredevil gran bungee jumps off Europabrücke
- Austria to test police body cameras
- Paper sued over air crash co-pilot photo
18 August
- Angry backlash to new asylum law
- Six injured in migrant smuggling van crash
- Six ideas to make Vienna even more liveable
19 August
- Austria votes in favour of Greek bailout
- Ministers pay surprise visit to refugee camp
- Neo-Nazi handed 20 month sentence
- Alleged crime boss faces extradition
20 August
- Man stabs ex-lover and her son in dramatic attack
- Taxi driver saves pensioner from 'nephew' scam
- Musicians play socialist anthem to Strache
- Minute of silence tops Austrian iTunes chart
21 August
- 24 injured in migrant smuggling van crash
- Ministry 'paid too much' for container homes
- Swim ban after Lake Festival drowning
22 August
- 'Muslims forced to eat pork' allegations false
24 August
- Austrian exchange slumps over Asia fears
- Scores injured in migrant smuggling van crash
- Despite quality of life Austria 'isn't friendly'
- Migrant crisis a 'humanitarian disaster'
25 August
- Migrant crisis to hijack western Balkans summit
- How to create a ‘relationship vision’
- People smuggler sedated refugee children
- Austria draws on army in migrant crisis
26 August
- Germany eases rules as refugee crisis intensifies
- Syrian jailed for two years for smuggling
- Austrian found guilty of Nazi Facebook post
- Graz Mayor wants €100 fine for cannabis users
27 August
- Six-year-old girl being sued for €38,000
- Kurz threatens tighter border controls
- Black market operating in Traiskirchen claim
- More than 70 now feared dead in migrant tragedy
- Scene of horror greets highway patrol
- 'Migrant challenge' hijacks Balkans Summit
28 August
- Truck death toll 71 including 4 children
- Rights expert: 'Border fences ineffective'
- ORF say police paint false picture
- Five courtyard cafes to soak up the sun
29 August
- Austria migrant tragedy suspects appear in court
- More migrants risk lives on deadly journeys
30 August
- Calls for action over migrant influx
31 August
- Stunt pilot dies in air show crash
- Australian dies after hit by bus in Vienna
- Final heatwave before autumn comes
- Austria steps up police checks for refugees
- Migrant search intercepts 200 suspected refugees
- Hundreds of migrants arrive in Vienna on trains
- 20,000 protest in Vienna over migrant treatment