Austria News

Europe should consider allowing fracking for shale gas in sparsely populated areas, the chief executive of Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine told a German newspaper.

MONACO Rafael Nadal loses to Spanish compatriot David Ferrer in the quarterfinals, his earliest exit at the Monte Carlo Masters in 11 years.

Sanel Kuljic, Dominique Taboga and Johannes Lamprecht have allegedly been fixing matches in the country's first and second divisions, offering other players 7,000 to 40,000 euros to help manipulate games, prosecutors said.

Sanel Kuljic, Dominique Taboga and Johannes Lamprecht have allegedly been fixing matches in the country's first and second divisions, offering other players 7,000 to 40,000 euros to help manipulate games, prosecutors said.

Three ex-players in Austria formed a criminal organization during their careers and attempted to manipulate 18 national league games from 2004 to 2013 with bets of up to 300,000 euros per match, state prosecutors said on Friday.

Plus, the Russian co-owner of Montenegro's huge aluminum plant sues the government and Brussels shifts gears on Bosnia.

Jousting knights on horseback. Gleaming armor. A gilded carriage. Royal regalia.

The innovative Austrian-designed Johammer J1 Electric Motorcycle doesn't look like any other electrobike while performing better than most of its competitors.

Ayelet Waldman accomplishes a deft feat in her new book, "Love and Treasure." The Berkeley writer's elegant, sweeping Holocaust novel does not once visit the concentration camps, but still conveys the scope of the tragedy as well as the richness of Hungarian Jewish history.

Brussels - The head of NATO pledged on Wednesday to immediately step up military patrols along the alliance's vast eastern border in response to mounting evidence of Russian interference in Ukraine.The announcement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, appeared to be another sign that the ... (more)

CHAMBERSBURG >> Holocaust survivor Trudy Klein Gompers will be the guest speaker as Letterkenny Army Depot's Special Emphasis Program honors the Observance of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance on April 23 at 12:00 p.m. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1937, Gompers' family moved to England in early 1939 after the Nazi's annexed Austria.

Why are the US authorities trying to extradite and imprison arguably the one man in the world with the skills and influence to bring peace, stability, and prosperity to fractured Ukraine? This week I flew to Vienna, Austria, to find out in a world exclusive interview with UkraineA s Dmitry Firtash, the billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, and ... (more)

All the particles we know to exist make up only about five per cent of the mass and energy of the universe.

" A thermal window for yawning in humans: Yawning as a brain cooling mechanism ," Jorg J.M. Massen [pictured here], Kim Dusch, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, Andrew C. Gallup, Physiology & Behavior , epub 2014.

What better way to commemorate your 150th birthday than to celebrate with friends, family and neighbors in a brand new home? Steyr Arms did just that on April 4, 2014, unveiling a new 33,000 square-foot manufacturing headquarters in Bessemer, Alabama.

From the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glasgow, UK ; UniversitA tsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany ; Institut National de la SantA© et de la Recherche MA©dicale , U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, UniversitA© ... (more)

From the Department of Neurology and Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology , Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Department of Neurology, Hospital Barmherzige Brueder, Vienna, Austria ; Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria ; and Center of Clinical Neurosciences, Danube University of ... (more)

Hypo Alpe Adria, the state bank whose woes will swell Austria's debt and deficits this year, is morphing into a national bogeyman for a country fed up with the lender's chronic need for support and policymakers' failure to resolve the issue.

After the exceptional success of RIEGL LIDAR 2013 , which took place in Vienna Austria, RIEGL announces its next International User Conference, RIEGL LIDAR 2015, to be held in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.

Rita Gebert is bringing her lifelong love of singing to a Pleasant Hill stage -- all the way from Innsbruck, Austria.