Austria News

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

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

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.

The Austrian Film Institute, the official government funder, had $21.35 million available under its FISA film funding scheme.

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

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

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.

A mother who threw her stillborn baby onto the fire after going into labour at home is facing five years in jail, say prosecutors in Warsaw, Poland.

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

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.

On Feb. 10, 2012, Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings on Italian bank UniCredit SpA to 'BBB+/A-2' from 'A/A-1', assigned a negative outlook, and removed them from CreditWatch negative.

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.

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.

A woman from Vienna, Austria, who received silicone breast implants from French firm PIP, has appealed to the Austrian Consumer Information Association for help.

Austrians marked the 100th anniversary of their embassy in Bangkok by unveiling a street sign officially renaming the street on which it sits after the country's most-famous export: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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.

The son of Schlecker founder Anton Schlecker has claimed that the company has no plans to sell its Austrian affiliate.

The number of people claiming they were injected with the parasite causing malaria at a Vienna psychiatric ward while teenagers grew to seven Thursday, with the lawyer representing six of them saying their accounts, given separately, are credible because they are similar.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and CTBTO Executive Secretary Tibor Toth speak to the press after ratification of the treaty.

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