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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 ...
Roma artist, writer on Nazi atrocities, dies at 79
Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi death camps and then found her life's work: Raising awareness of the Nazis' persecution of Roma — also known as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe grads
Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their ...
Pony back with circus after Christmas kidnap
A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a ...
Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show
At the end of the evening, the witch was toast Sunday — or more precisely a gingerbread cookie — and the audience at Vienna's Volksoper loved it.
Renowned opera singer in Vienna going strong at 95
It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to ...
UN nuke agency: progress on Iran nuclear program
A senior U.N. official announced progress Friday in long-stalled efforts to resume a probe of suspicions that Iran may have worked to develop nuclear ...
New UN, international efforts to engage Iran
International officials pursued a two-pronged effort Wednesday to engage Iran over concerns the country may have worked on nuclear weapons, with a U.N
Swiss opera diva Della Casa dies at 93
Famed for her beauty that matched her serene voice, Swiss-born diva Lisa Della Casa swept up crowds at opera houses of the past century with an ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
OPEC considers oil output, Iran-Saudi rivalry
Tough decisions await OPEC oil ministers sitting down this week for a policy meeting. The 12-nation cartel has to deal not only with how much crude ...
Hungary foreign minister slams anti-Jewish remark
Hungary's foreign minister said Wednesday that calls by an extreme-right politician to register the country's Jews as potential security risks were ...
Officials: Serbia's NATO ambassador leaps to death
Serbia's ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to ...
AP Exclusive: Graph suggests Iran working on bomb
Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb ...
Saudi-backed religious center opens in Austria
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israel and Hamas to respect their cease-fire but said only mutual recognition of Israel's right to ...
Austrian officials inaugurate new concert house
Officials in the Austrian town of Erl have inaugurated a futuristic concert house that will house the country's newest music festival. Officials for ...
APNewsBreak: Iran ready to ramp up nuke program
Iran is on the threshold of being able to create weapons-grade uranium at a plant it has heavily fortified against Israeli attack, diplomats told The ...
APNewsBreak: Mideast nuke talks called off
Attempts to find Arab-Israeli common ground on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Mideast have failed, and high-profile talks on the issue ...
Cafe's one-way mirror allows peeks into restroom
An Austrian artist has installed a one-way mirror in a Vienna cafe that allows men to peek from their restroom into the ladies room. Alexander Riegler ...
Vienna platform launches opera live stream
Vienna's opera scene is going live on the web for the first time with the launch of the first Internet-based platform for streaming classical ...
Male nude posters plaster Vienna, draw complaints
Naked men of all sizes and shapes are appearing on Vienna kiosks as a prestigious museum kicks off an exhibit of male nudity. But outside the ...