Vienna - In a mix-up which was close to being fatal, a stage actor playing a suicide scene in Vienna seriously wounded himself when he used a real knife, instead of a fake one, to cut his throat, theatre officials said Wednesday.
Actor Danel Hoevels managed to stagger off the stage after inflicting a deep slice wound to his throat.
He was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, officials of Vienna's famous Burgtheater confirmed about reports about the incident which had happened the previous weekend.
Vienna - Austria's post offices were partially closed Wednesday, as postal workers protested plans to downsize the mail service.
Employees at around 80 branches were on strike, but mail delivery went on uninterrupted, Oesterreichische Post AG said in a statement.
The protests came one day before the post's management meets to discuss possible restructuring plans for 2009.
To prepare the company for the end of the state monopoly on mail delivery in 2011, its management has reportedly drawn up plans to reduce the 25,800-strong workforce by 35 per cent by 2015 and to close or sell 77 per cent of post offices.
Vienna - Opponents of the Turkish Ilisu dam seized rooms in the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB) in Vienna on Wednesday, calling on the bank to pull out of the project on ecological and cultural grounds.
Austrian, German and Swiss export guarantees worth an estimated 450 million euros (577 million dollars) underpin the financing of the project to dam the Tigris river in south-eastern Turkey and build a power plant.
Vienna - The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose for a second day in a row Tuesday, inching upwards to
38.19 dollars.
Vienna - Austria's postal workers announced Tuesday they would hold a warning strike Wednesday to protest planned personnel cutbacks and post office closures.
To prepare the partly state-owned Oesterreichische Post AG for the end of the state monopoly on letter services in 2011, its management is reportedly planning to reduce the 25,800-strong workforce by 9,000 by 2015 and to close 77 per cent of post offices.
Vienna - In a mix-up which was close to being fatal, a stage actor playing a suicide scene in Vienna seriously wounded himself when he used a real knife, instead of a fake one, to cut his throat, theatre officials said Wednesday.
Vienna - Austria's post offices were partially closed Wednesday, as postal workers protested plans to downsize the mail service.
Vienna - Opponents of the Turkish Ilisu dam seized rooms in the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB) in Vienna on Wednesday, calling on the bank to pull out of the project on ecological and cultural grounds. 
Vienna - Austria's postal workers announced Tuesday they would hold a warning strike Wednesday to protest planned personnel cutbacks and post office closures.
Vienna - After dropping to 36.67 dollars at the end of last week, the basket price of th
