Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on Saturday when a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia.
'In God's hands' read several of the tattoos inked during a free-of-charge session over the weekend -- organised by none other than Austria's leading group representing Catholic nuns and monks.
Whether it has been five weeks or five years, Austria can sometimes feel a little strange as a foreigner. But if you recognise any of these eight signs, you might be a little more integrated than you think.
From the famous Fucking to the lesser known Windpassing - and of course Lower Stinky Well - Austria’s countryside is full of weird and wonderful place names.
Two diners in Austria bit off more than they could chew when they dared to complain about a mix-up in their food order and were compelled to run for safety from the enraged restaurant owner, police said on Thursday.
Elvis Presley loved Cadillacs, compulsively collecting hundreds of them during his lifetime, and what is believed to be the last Cadillac he drove before his death in 1977 is going under the hammer in Austria later this month, the auctioneers said on Friday.
A 22-year-old Austrian man might have thought himself lucky after police in the city of Eisenstadt found his lost wallet -- had it not been full of ten fake 50 euro notes.
French police have arrested an Austrian man at a Paris airport after he flew in from Mexico with 80 small birds stashed in his hand luggage, a judicial source said Wednesday.
An Austrian teacher has been fired from his job at a secondary school after he let his 12-year-old students create an oversized model of an erect penis during an art and crafts class. Although the children reportedly found it funny, their parents were not amused.
Austrian police locked down the grounds of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace on Monday morning, after a jogger told them he’d spotted a lion which he believed must have escaped from the zoo.
A man who recently moved into a rented apartment in the Austrian town of Graz was astonished when he stumbled on a cardboard box containing six neat bundles of €500 notes in the cellar. The cash totalled €269,500.
The former branch manager of a supermarket in the Austrian capital Vienna has received a six month probationary sentence for embezzling €20,000. He said he urgently needed the money to be able to take care of his cat.
The Austrian president of the International Naturism Federation (INF) has been asked to step down from her post after accusations that she has not done enough to promote the benefits of nudity to the wider public.
German police faced one of their more unusual call-outs on Thursday when reports emerged of an Austrian pensioner causing mayhem on the motorway - with fake police equipment.
A German skier is being treated in hospital for a serious injury after a fellow skier kicked him in the genitals whilst wearing ski boots during a drunken argument at a ski resort in the Austrian state of Salzburg.
A 25-year-old Austrian man who was detained in the western city of Villach after a naked night time joyride on his bike has said the incident was a “prank” to impress a female colleague.
An out-of-control nude cyclist was detained in Villach in western Austria on Tuesday after making a nuisance of himself on a drunken night time joyride, in temperatures of -13C!
A man who stole a tram in Vienna on Saturday morning and took it for a joy-ride is a former employee and tram driver for the Wiener Linien transport company.
The Austrian town of Saalfelden in the state of Salzburg is looking for someone to live in a nearby hermitage which was built more than 350 years ago in steep, rocky cliffs.
