Ten thousand people per week are now using 150 free Wi-Fi hotspots in Vienna to access the internet with their mobile devices – and by the end of the year there will be 400 access points. The free...

A four-year-old girl has been found stabbed to death in Vienna’s Hernals district, and her 38-year-old mother has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The girl’s 13-year-old brother found his sister...

The opposition Freedom Party (FPÖ) is demanding a response from Austria’s chancellor and foreign minister after nine American marines were arrested in Vienna’s airport for carrying assault rifles...

Austrian oil and gas firm OMV has given up its licences to explore for oil and gas in Croatia’s Adriatic, where border disputes risked complicating pursuit of the project it said on Wednesday. “A...

Austrian President Heinz Fischer will in September make the first visit to Iran by a European head of state since 2004, his office said on Thursday.The announcement came nine days after a historic agreement...

Two British men in their 20s were killed on Friday morning when their car veered off Austria’s highest mountain pass during an illegal race, police said. The accident happened close to the highest...

For those of you who aren’t able to fly somewhere exotic this summer – do not despair. Austrian scientists have developed a new drone which means you could soon enjoy the bustling streets of Tokyo...

Vienna is not the most pleasant place to be in the midst of a sweltering heatwave – especially when your friends and colleagues have headed off to the lake for some ‘sommerfrische’. But that...

Vienna’s aquarium, the Haus des Meeres, which is housed in a former Nazi anti-aircraft tower will be getting a facelift in time for next summer.The plans include a new tank and viewing tunnel as well...

A 16-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after totalling a Porsche Boxter in the early hours of Saturday morning – spectacularly crashing the sports car whilst drunk in Euratsfeld, Lower Austria. He...