Austria News

By William Green A 70-year-old hiker has been found dead after a suspected fall on Hohe Wand in Lower Austria's Wiener Neustadt district.

I was taking deep breaths of fresh Austrian air when I was overtaken in quick succession by a cyclist with bulging calves, a lady doing her errands and a small boy on an even smaller bike laden with fishing tackle.

By Lisa Chapman Three Viennese students have won study places at Chinese universities after coming second in a "Chinese Bridge" competition in Chongqing, China.

VIENNA, Austria, NOV. 6, 2009 .- Real religious freedom is not freedom from religion, says a historian writing in response to this week's European court decision discouraging crucifixes in Italian schools.

By Lisa Chapman Four Austrian restaurants have been awarded four chef's caps in the new GaultMIllau 2010 guide to restaurants and hotels - one less than last year.

By Thomas Hochwarter An Austrian suspected of drug smuggling has been arrested in India, the Austrian Foreign Ministry confirmed today .

Doctor warns of - health time bomb' developments. Fresh call made for prevention campaign.

A symposium on ethics was recently held in Vienna, organized by the Austrian Order of Doctors and the European Forum 'Alpbach,' which addressed various themes.

A girl has died in Austria of swine flu, becoming the country's first recorded fatality.

A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.

They shuffled along the uneven cobblestones on Schwedenplatz, a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in Vienna bound for a bus waiting to ferry them two hours west to Linz, Austria's third-largest city.

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A British nuclear expert who fell out of the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide, London's Daily Mail reported a doctor who carried out a second autopsy as saying.

The popularity of Germany's annual E60 million Federal Film Fund has spread to neighboring Austria, where the film industry is clamoring for a similar incentive to call its own.

The United States on Friday pressed for clarification from Iran regarding potentially deal-busting revisions to a nuclear proposal, according to senior Obama administration officials.

Because of its history of ruling over a wide variety of disparate geographical regions, the desserts in Austria are considered to be some of the most diverse and rich of any we have available today.

Vienna, Austria - UN nuclear inspectors have returned from an inspection of a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site.

Katharina Burgdorf reads a voucher for a one-way flight ticket she bought at the Austrian supermarket Penny Markt.

Get a taste of Austria this Sunday at the Bavarian Inn in Glendale. Published Oct.

Marin Cilic , John Isner and Daniel Koellerer met with Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer on Austrian national day at Vienna's historical plaza Heldenplatz Monday.