Austria

Authorities say three skiers have been killed and two injured in an avalanche in central Austria.

Protests against fresh Covid restrictions have continued to rock Europe over the weekend.

Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, have marched through Vienna after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain skyrocketing coronavirus infections.

Oil’s run as one of 2021’s hottest trades is slowing, with crude on track for a fourth straight negative week amid demand concerns.

It comes at a time when many countries in Europe are imposing tougher public health restrictions to tackle a sharp upswing in Covid infections.

Austria recently imposed lockdown measures on its unvaccinated population, but will extend the lockdown to the entire country from Monday.

Millions of unvaccinated people have been placed back under lockdown in Austria, and face heavy fines if they breach the restrictions.

Austria implemented a nationwide lockdown on Monday for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19.

Austria has taken what its leader called the “dramatic” step of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven’t recently had COVID-19

Austria is expected to impose lockdown restrictions on millions of unvaccinated people in the coming days.

The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family was famous for being depicted in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 90.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors’ announcement that he is a target of a corruption investigation

Austrian police say a man hid his mother’s body in his basement for over a year in order to continue receiving her pension and nursing allowance

The clear up has barely begun after extensive flooding in Germany and beyond but already the costs — both human and economic — are staggering.

Trains are not the only mode of transportation to use hydrogen fuel cells.

German stock-trading app Trade Republic raised $900 million in a huge funding round that values the start-up at $5.3 billion.

Biden is calling for a paid leave policy that would compensate workers for 12 weeks while they took care of children or parents or healed from an illness.

EU recovery funds are needed to “re-boost” the economy, but debt mutualization should not be a permanent tool, Austria says.

Health experts say they are disappointed and confused by the flurry of suspensions of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca.

The French government has announced that it is to return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners, eight decades after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938