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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament

Austrian Chancellor Kurz ousted from office

Sebastian Kurz said he saw the snap elections as the only way to solve the crisis

Austria heads for September election following scandal

Europe / 20 May

Austria Heinz-Christian Strache met an alleged niece of a Russian oligarch to discuss investing in Austria

Austria set for snap elections after video scandal

The skier who recorded the incident told Reuters that fortunately no-one was buried by the avalanche

Lucky escape for skiers caught up in avalanche

News Lens / 20 Mar

Austrian soldiers walk at the valley station of the Hochkar cable car in Austria

Three skiers found dead after Austrian avalanche

Weather / 13 Jan

Volunteer firefighters in the ski resort of Hohentauern work to clear snow

Volunteers pitch in as snow swamps Austria

News Lens / 10 Jan

Image: OEBB/GOTTSBACHER

Snowed Under - Goat rescued from avalanche in Austria

News Lens / 09 Jan

Roads are closed after an avalanche in Austria

Five dead, two missing in heavy snow storms in Austria

Europe / 08 Jan

Across Austria, around a dozen people were wounded in firework-related mishaps

Teen dies in firework accident in Austria

A sign at the border between Austria and Germany near the Bavarian village of Kiefersfelden

Austria to 'protect' borders after German migrant deal

Europe / 03 Jul 18

The truck was abandoned in Austria

Four men jailed over murder of migrants in Hungary

Europe / 14 Jun 18

The Austrian leader said 'political Islam' has 'no place' in the country

Austria set to expel up to 60 imams, shuts 7 mosques

Europe / 08 Jun 18

Ryanair agreed in March to take a 24.9% stake in the Austrian carrier

Ryanair agrees option to buy all of Laudamotion

Business / 30 May 18

In 2015 Austria took in one of the biggest shares of asylum seekers in Europe

Austria plans to cut benefits for foreigners

Europe / 28 May 18

The leader of the Austrian Peoples Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz (L) and leader of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache (R) speak at a news conference in Vienna

New Austrian government rules out EU referendum

World / 16 Dec 17

Sebastian Kurz has pledged to take a hard line on refugees and prevent a European migration crisis

Austria shifts to right as conservative star elected

News / 15 Oct 17

EasyJet to set up new company in Austria to protect its flying rights once Britain leaves the European Union

Brexit: EasyJet to set up new company in Austria

Business / 14 Jul 17

Austrian police pictured at the Brenner Pass border crossing point in May 2016

Austria plans to impose controls on Italian border

Brenner Pass / 04 Jul 17

Adolf Hitler was born in the house in April 1889

Hitler house expropriation stands, Austria court rules

World / 30 Jun 17

The trial is taking place in Hungary as authorities say that is where the refugees died

Four on trial in Hungary over murder of 71 refugees

World / 21 Jun 17

Only about 30 women out of a potential 200 have taken up an offer of free DNA tests to identify the second baby

Austrian hospital faces €90k bill for mixing up babies

World / 12 Jun 17

Airbus mixes up Australia with Austria in accounts typo

Airbus latest to trip up on tricky typo

Business / 20 Apr 17

The man was seen in pictures posing outside Hitler's birth house in Braunau

Hitler doppelganger arrested in Austria

News / 13 Feb 17

It is not yet clear what will happen with the yellow corner house at 15 Salzburger Vorstadt Street

Austria to seize Hitler's birth house

News / 15 Dec 16

Alexander van der Bellen (L) and Norbert Hofer (R) are neck-and-neck in the polls

Tetchy final debate before Austrian election

News / 02 Dec 16

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