Adolf Hitler’s notorious childhood home in Braunau am Inn, Austria, has an unscheduled date with a wrecking ball, if the Interior Ministry gets its way. The Austrian government is pushing a plan to ...

The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria's parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. It is the ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

In terms of Irish connections, monks from these shores founded the Schottenstift abbey in central Vienna in the 12th century ...

The movie The Sound of Music is, as the title suggests, a musical. And the main storyline involves a nun-in-training turned governess who slowly warms the von Trapp family father to her as they fall ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, which entered government in December, announced on Tuesday is was setting up a panel of people to investigate its history, a bid to distance ...

MODERN AUSTRIA turned 100 on November 12th and, as a present, gave itself a history museum. Its first exhibition includes a towering wooden horse that sports the brown cap of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung ...

And yet Hans Breuer doesn't seem particularly quaint as he sits with tour buddy and author Sam Apple in the Starbucks across from the Galleria. Under the lightest prodding, 51-year-old Breuer launches ...

Having not featured at a World Cup since 1998, Austria took a major step towards ending that drought with a historic rout.In their Group H qualifier last night, the Austrians showed no mercy against ...

A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a ...