In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...

The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost...

Two men have been arrested for people smuggling after 64 Kurds were found in the back of a lorry in Styria. Graz police said today (Weds) two men, an Austrian and a...

A year after his death in a car crash, a new memorial to Joerg Haider has become a temple to the man who shook up European politics with his anti-foreigner...

Austria was hit by a record October snowfall late on Tuesday when strong winds and heavy snow caused power blackouts, train delays and traffic accidents. Austria...

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his Austrian counterpart in Vienna and said that embracing the Goldstone Report amounts to granting diplomatic immunity to...

An Iranian proposal prohibiting military attacks against nuclear installations worldwide has been approved by the UN nuclear watchdog’s general conference, an...

Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a...

Austrian authorities had to rescue young children from municipal mailboxes on at least two occasions recently near Vienna. The Associated Press reported that the...

Dear readers, amidst all the mayhem, I just couldn`t pick up my pen to write these words until the dust settled a little. The infamous Crisis is by now becoming...

Turkey, Austria and Japan have just won the three open non permanent United Nations Security Council seats. The effort was not without contention and raises questions...

Import/Export is a bizarre, horrifying, challenging work, often brilliant and spectacular, often troubling and indeed objectionable.

For tens of thousands of years, fire has defined our civilization. It is fire that has allowed us to smelt metals, to purify chemicals, to power cars, trains and...

Suppose you give me a million dollars with the instructions, “Invest this profitably, and I’ll pay you well.” I’m a sharp dresser — why...

September, Salzburg. Now that the tourists departed from their star-gazing vacation of the Festspiele, Salzburgian’s can now enjoy enclosed harmony the joys of...

With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...

This week in Vienna sees a series of events to co-inside with autumn season. There is the Jewish Festival: Yiddishkeit, that is advertised on the Ubahn with a gigantic...

The union representing California state prison guards filed a formal notice that it will seek to oust Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a move his advisers say they are...

Developed by Australia’s Krome Studios, this Hellboy adventure, released to coincide with the new Hollywood flick, begins promisingly.The inimitable Ron Perlman...

CELLAR incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl is teaching her children to play — because they had no idea how to have fun.