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Austrian woman says urn with dad's ashes stolen
The woman had just returned home in Vienna, carrying the cremated ashes of her father. As she unlocked the front door, her phone began ringing inside.
Schwarzenegger lauds Austria's environment record
Arnold Schwarzenegger is praising Austria — and not because it's the country of his birth. Arriving in Vienna on Wednesday ahead of the launch of his ...
Austrian charity plans to move into Hitler's house
An Austrian charity that helps immigrants reportedly plans to set up an office in the house where Adolf Hitler was born. The villa in the Upper ...
Hirscher, Duerr win parallel slaloms
Austria's Marcel Hirscher and Lena Duerr of Germany dominated the parallel slalom World Cup races on a giant ramp in downtown Moscow on Tuesday.
Italians seek return of Salieri's remains
Residents of a provincial city in northern Italy are seeking to reclaim the remains of its best-known son, composer Antonio Salieri. Salieri left his ...
Austria cardinal: activists misuse asylum seekers
Austria's top Roman Catholic clergyman is accusing political activists of exploiting the plight of asylum-seekers who have occupied a church for over ...
New production of Rossini's Cinderella a delight
There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the ...
Injured slalom champion Schild might defend title
Marlies Schild might recover in time from knee surgery to defend her slalom title at next month's world championships, the Austrian ski federation ...
Hirscher earns 10th career World Cup slalom win
Marcel Hirscher was cheered by 21,000 Austrian ski fans, including a standing ovation from Austria-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, after earning his tenth ...
Maze wins slalom before home fans in Maribor
Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze rebounded from a close loss by posting an emphatic slalom victory before her home fans Sunday, giving the Slovenian ...
Italy's Paris wins WCup downhill in Kitzbuehel
Dominik Paris won the downhill in Kitzbuehel on Saturday, becoming only the second Italian skier to capture the classic World Cup race on the Streif ...
Opera about Nazi atrocity shown in Austria
Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's ...
Svindal wins super-G for 20th career WCup victory
Aksel Lund Svindal became the first skier in nine years to win three World Cup super-G races in a season on Friday. Austrian standout Hermann Maier ...
Arson destroys Austrian Turkish culture center
Police say that one or more arsonists have torched a Turkish community center in Vienna. Nobody was injured in the attack but Murat Barlan, who runs ...
Italy's Innerhofer fined for skiing on after crash
Christof Innerhofer has been given the unfavorable start position of 46th for Saturday's World Cup downhill as a punishment by the international ski ...
10 years after win, Rahlves skies on Streif again
Ten years after winning the classic World Cup downhill on the famous Streif course, Daron Rahlves has come back to Kitzbuehel to have one more go.
Kroell leads final training before WCup downhill
Klaus Kroell is determined to become the first Austrian winner of the classic World Cup downhill on the Streif course since Michael Walchhofer in 2006
Austrian police: Extreme-right network busted
Police say they have broken up a network of extreme rightists implicated in dozens of crimes and are holding 10 suspects for questioning. They say the ...
Svindal fastest again in WCup downhill training
Aksel Lund Svindal has never had much success in the Kitzbuehel downhill, but still finds himself a firm favorite to win Saturday's classic World Cup ...
Naked gunman on Austrian streets, suspect nabbed
Austrian police say they have arrested a suspect after witnesses reported a naked man armed with a handgun strolling through a town's snow-covered ...
Vienna trains crash head-on, 41 people injured
Two trains packed with morning commuters crashed head-on Monday on Vienna's outskirts after a state railway employee apparently forgot to activate a ...
Austria backs status quo conscript army
Austrians voted overwhelmingly Sunday to retain their conscript army, with preliminary results showing around 60 percent rejecting the proposed shift ...
Frenzel wins 2nd Nordic combined event in 2 days
Eric Frenzel of Germany won his second Nordic combined World Cup event of the weekend on Sunday. Frenzel outsprinted Mikko Kokslien of Norway and ...