Conditions worsened in the on-going ice storm in Lower Austria and Burgenland on Thursday, as authorities resorted to tanks to get supplies into towns cut off by thousands of fallen trees and ice-covered roads.
Professor Dominique Moisi wonders why the bicentennial of the Congress of Vienna is being all but ignored.
According to a report from Reuters, the troubled Austrian building supplies chain BauMax may be in the process of being sold via an Italian investment bank.
Austrian-German actor Christoph Waltz has been officially confirmed to play James Bond's evil opponent Ernst Blofeld in the movie, slated for November 2015.
A runaway horse sparked mayhem in evening rush hour traffic in Vienna, galloping along a busy road pursued by nine police cars and the animal's distraught owner, police said Thursday.
A British soldier has been arrested in Austria on suspicion of having sexually abused a six-year-old girl in Tyrol.
A new museum dedicated to those who helped 10,000 mostly Jewish children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape from the Nazis is opening in Vienna.
Army recovery vehicles and tanks have been assisting 80 people in Austria's eastern state of Burgenland who are trapped in their homes because of dangerous and icy weather conditions.
Things have been heating up a little too much in Austria's Linz Parkbad sauna during the past few weeks, with several complaints of frisky naked couples getting intimate in the steam room.
A decision is due later today on the fate of a prominent Austrian work of art that was seized from a Jewish collector by the Nazis.
A dog's frantic barking triggered a call to police in Salzburg district on Wednesday night, that most likely saved the life of a 35-year-old Flachgauer man.
