Sources: BBC
Austria unfreezes €3.4 million (US$3.7 million) in funds to the UNRWA. 2024-05-18
The Economist Intelligence Unit releases its annual Global Liveability Ranking assessment, ranking the world's most livable cities. Auckland, New Zealand replaces long-time first place holder Vienna, Austria, largely because of New Zealand's handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 2021-06-9
Austria begins to require people aged 14 or older to wear FFP2 masks in shops, pharmacies and hospitals, as well as on public transport. 2021-01-25
Austria abandons a plan to allow anyone with a negative test result to exit the lockdown a week early, instead extending strict measures and keeping restaurants and non-essential shops closed until January 24. 2021-01-4
Austria reports a record increase of 5,627 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative nationwide total to 99,576 confirmed cases. 2020-10-30
The number of new infections in Austria since the start of the pandemic rises by a record 4,453 cases in the past 24 hours. 2020-10-29
Austria's coalition government unveils plans to cut benefit payments for immigrants, including refugees, in a move aimed at deterring new arrivals. 2018-05-28
Austrian police discover as many as 50 dead refugees in a truck. 2015-08-27
The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each. 2012-01-13
Pope Benedict XVI is "distraught" by news alleged of child sexual abuse in Catholic dioceses in Germany, according to Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, as the church also faces paedophilia scandals in Ireland, Austria, and the Netherlands, while Pope Benedict defends clerical celibacy, calling it a symbol of "full devotion" and of "giving oneself to God and to others." 2010-03-12