Austria News

The holidays mean decadence. Fatty foods proliferate, bank accounts go negative and children risk becoming spoiled.

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, center, speaks to journalists prior to the start of a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, earlier this month.

For his master's thesis, he turned a building into a Rubik's cube . Somewhere on the campus of the University for Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria, there's a building with a whole bunch of colored, programmable lights on the facade.

Instead of spending nights online shopping and weekends in line at the mall, why not give your family and loved ones a gift they'll never forget this holiday season: A European vacation.

A guard escourts two Greenpeace activists carrying a banner from the field before the Champions League Group G soccer match between Austria Vienna and Zenit St. Petersburg in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013.

Officials from Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency are trying to reach agreement on how to inspect the country's nuclear facilities.

Patrick Boehler has written for Foreign Policy, Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

World Champion Nicolas Andreani wowed the judges with his impressive Einstein performance on Le Grand Chevalier, lunged by Eva Maria Kreiner.

Even though I am proudly an American citizen, as a native-born Austrian I feel that pastries and cakes are my birthright.

Austria-based Bramberger [architects] won a competition to design the High Tech Campus in Villach, Austria.

Six Austrian banks will hold up well in European stress tests next year that are designed to gauge whether the region's banks can withstand tough market conditions, the Austrian National Bank said on Wednesday.

First was the Countryman, and now here it is: the new Paceman compact crossover.

SALZBURG CHRISTMAS: St. Martin's Chamber Choir performs "A Salzburg Christmas" Friday at the Broomfield Auditorium.

The facade of the Ars Electronica center in Linz, Austria, a hub for the electronic arts, is covered by 1,085 glass panes that can be lit by 95,000 color-changing LEDs.

Katie Dubbs '14 and Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic '14 were awarded Sachs Scholarships.

France's Bouygues Telecom has expanded its 4G services to all existing tariffs at no extra cost to the consumer.

International technology Group ANDRITZ successfully started up Europe's largest new paper machine for specialty papers, supplied to Zellstoff Pols, Austria.

Medtronic on Monday announced the first-in-human implant of the world's smallest pacemaker: the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System .

A Berkeley woman whose legs were crushed by a train in Austria six years ago won the right from a U.S. appeals court to go ahead with a lawsuit against the Austrian railroad in federal court in San Francisco.

The German expression "Es weihnachtet sehr" fits the mood in Vienna as Austria's capital decks itself out in style for the holiday season.