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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.

• Dominatrix in court after deadly sex game claims a life
• Sex whilst driving ends painfully for young lovers

If you're an American in Europe, don't let high-minded queasiness stop you using your vote - there's too much at stake, says Laura Shields of Democrats Abroad.

A prostitute is on trial accused of causing intentional serious bodily harm resulting in death, after a 45-year-old client of hers was found hanging in a hotel room.

• Jealousy drives man to blow up ex-girlfriend with hand grenade
• Man jailed for making hundreds of sex calls to teachers
• Sex whilst driving ends painfully for young lovers

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under fire at home over her refugees policy, called Saturday for Europe to secure deals with third countries to send back migrants who do not qualify for asylum.

• Lovesick football fan to blame for mass brawl in Linz
• Asylum seeker used benefits to set up drugs network
• Young asylum seekers at risk in Austrian lakes
• Hofer backs down on refugee island scheme

A police officer in Vienna is in a critical condition after being knocked down by a prisoner on day release who was riding a Yamaha motorbike at full speed.

• Jealousy drives man to blow up ex-girlfriend with hand grenade
• Austrian commits robbery so he can 'start over' in prison

A Bosnian man living in Austria travelled back to his homeland to blow up his ex-girlfriend with a hand grenade when he found out she was seeing somebody else.

• Asylum seeker used benefits to set up drugs network
• Rape victim stabs Syrian asylum seeker
• Man jailed in Austria for murdering wife in Syria

An Austrian family who visited Paris say they won’t be going back after security officials treated them “like terrorists” because their son carries an insulin pump.

One person has died and seven others are seriously injured after a horrific road accident on the Westautobahn (A1) in Lower Austria.

• Red Bull race pilot dies in mystery helicopter crash
• Fireman discovers son's death on call out

A tourist from Taiwan who got lost on Austria’s Dachstein mountain was rescued after sending a friend in Hong Kong images via WhatsApp.

• Swede survives 70 metre fall in Austrian Alps
• Austrian climber survives 800 metre mountain fall
• Asylum seekers' hike ends in disaster

As she prepares to leave Vienna after three years living here, the Local’s Maddy French muses over some of the things that surprised her about Austrians.

Even a century after his death, Austria's mutton-chop whiskered emperor Franz Joseph still looms large in the national consciousness.

A new book published on the 10th anniversary of the escape of Natascha Kampusch offers fresh evidence that the abduction was not the action of a single lone kidnapper.

The Muslim schoolboys at the centre of a furore over handshaking earlier this year have had their appeal quashed.

Germany is set to host the world's first zero-emission, hydrogen passenger train when it gets into gear next year.

A new political party that promises a stricter immigration policy than the Danish People’s Party combined with a libertarian economic outlook will be on the ballot the next time Denmark holds an election.

As the wine harvest gets well underway across Spain, The Local celebrates the nation's favourite tipple with some little known facts.