Vienna, Austria News

Q: I recently booked a two-night stay at the Hotel am Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, through the Accor website.

More than one in four Austrians who plan to go on holiday this year will do so in their home country, according to a new poll.

The Volkstheater promises a night to remember as an award-winning saxophone orchestra is at the ready to rock Vienna.

The head of Amnesty International's Austrian representation has made aware of hardship and continuing violation of human rights in Chechnya.

The Russian ambassador in Vienna has alleged that the Western world may provide the Syrian opposition with weapons.

William Boyd tells David Robinson what drew him to write his new thriller about an actor-turned-spy in 1913 Vienna He got to the Freud Museum early.

Viennese police officers are facing jail over failing to help a retired politician after he was assaulted by a right-wing mob.

The Naples Philharmonic Brass Quintet will present an evening of classical music interspersed with works from popular artists like Gershwin and Ellington from the days of the big bands and great jazz musicians.

Viennese band Waldeck, the musical project of Austrian musician Klaus Waldeck, will revive the sounds of the 20s, with an added electro twist, in Romania this February.

The lucky orangutans who take up residence in Europe's oldest zoo have been indulging in a twice weekly take-away. Despite the trees in Schnbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria now being completely bare the fury friends have fresh branches and leaves delivered twice a week.

Austrian Airlines employees' representatives feel confirmed in their criticism of Lufthansa as a price check reveals that the Viennese airline's German mother company offers cheaper connections.

Light-fingered Chinese groom Chen Lu paid the price when he decided to pocket two pocket cameras while his wife chatted to a photographer about wedding photographs.

In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo attorney Johannes Oehlboeck speaks at a press conference in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Oct.

A woman and child have died in a road accident in Vienna, Austria. The lorry driver was making a right turn when he drove into a group of pedestrians leaving a 59-year-old and a 12-year-old dead.

Bagels! Lox! Add some cream cheese and perhaps a sliver of sweet red onion and a light grinding of fresh black pepper and life is good.

"I couldn't survive in Lviv without coffee." My host, Halyna, is not the only one who feels this way about the caffeinated elixir.

The company was also known as eWave Telekommunikation GmbH and later apart, changed its name in the year 2005.

The shrill ring of the mobile breaks through my bittersweet reverie now. I rush to answer the call, wondering, is it from Elise? Mehru Jaffer Vienna The thought o f February sends a shiver down the spine.

Nestled up on the rooftops in the Weiden District of Vienna, Austria is a townhome that looks as if it doesn't belong- almost like an alien intruder.

"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" , by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed portrait of the Viennese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer, he could not have known that the sophisticated world inhabited by the sitter's wealthy Jewish family ... (more)