Candidates in Austria’s presidential election wrapping up their campaigns before Sunday’s vote. Alexander Van der Bellen, the current president and clear favourite, hopes to win a majority and avoid a run-off. Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) is his closest competitor, with around 16% of the vote. Candidates in Austria’s presidential election started … Read more
Former world number three Dominic Thiem dominated his first game. In quite a while with triumph at the Bastad Open on Tuesday. Wrist injury that kept him from safeguarding his U.S. Open title a year ago. Thiem had not dominated a game since a second round triumph in Rome in May last year and was … Read more
Formula One title pioneer Max Verstappen gave Red Bull. Home post position for Saturday’s run race at Austrian Grand Prix. Mercedes rivals Lewis Hamilton and George Russell crashed in qualifying. Verstappen set his one moment 04.984 second lap toward the finish of a nail-gnawing, two-minute shootout as the red-hailed meeting. Hamilton and afterward Russell had … Read more
Lewis Hamilton apologized to Mercedes after multiple times. Formula One best on the planet crashed, to cheers from some in group. In meeting all requirements for Saturday’s Austrian Grand Prix run. Hamilton said he was energized in any case by the vehicle’s presentation, and trusted he could make up certain puts on Saturday. The Briton, … Read more
One Austrian and one Romanian were killed by a shark off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt. The Red Sea is a popular tourist spot with lots of sharks, but they rarely attack swimmers who stay within the rules. Task team working to discover “the reasons behind the shark’s behaviour that resulted in the incident”. CAIRO: … Read more
Mercedes dread Lewis Hamilton probably won’t be fit to race in Canada one weekend from now after the seven-times Formula One title holder got through serious back torment in a skipping vehicle at Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The Briton completed fourth in Baku, subsequent to beginning seventh in a race where both Ferrari drivers resigned, … Read more
On Monday, a Vienna court found a freight forwarder guilty of stealing art valued at 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million) and hiding drawings by famous Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in his parents’ attic. According to Christina Salzborn, a spokesman for the Vienna Criminal Court, the court sentenced the 45-year-old to a two-year suspended sentence after … Read more
Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, famous for his paintings and performances of the use of animal blood and carcasses, died at age 83, his family said Tuesday. Nitsch died at a clinic in Lower Austria province on Monday, his niece instructed AFP. “Hermann Nitsch died peacefully at the age of 83 after a serious illness,” a … Read more
PARIS: While the ATP rankings barely moved on Monday following a weekend when the Davis Cup replaced tournaments, there was one visible change, as the Russian flag vanished from the list. Daniil Medvedev stayed on top, but the country column next to his name contained a white rectangle, after the ATP responded to the invasion … Read more
FRANKFURT: Twenty years after arriving in Europeans’ wallets, euro banknotes will get a new look with help from the public, a process officials hope will make citizens feel closer to the single currency. But the Austrian artist behind the original banknotes fears the redesign could spark national rivalries, something he painstakingly tried to avoid with neutral … Read more
THE HAGUE: Europe’s drug watchdog launched an accelerated review Thursday of a Covid-19 vaccine by Franco-Austrian biotech firm Valneva, for which the EU has already signed a deal for up to 60 million doses. The jab — which uses “inactivated” viruses rather than the new mRNA technology of the Pfizer or Moderna shots — showed … Read more
37 years old Austrian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Wilhelm Ott has embraced Islam, saying that the prevailing situation of coronavirus pandemic drove him to discover his “true faith.” He shared a video on Instagram in which he announced that he accepted Islam and converted to Muslim by reciting the Kalima Shahada which is one … Read more
