Sources: BBC
Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union. 2024-03-31
At Salzburg Zoo in Austria, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed. 2023-09-12
Three people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria. 2023-05-30
An unusually strong and early heat wave increases temperatures above 40 C in Spain. Seville records a temperature of 41.0 C, beating its all-time high for May, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, ties the record with 42.3 C. Several settlements in France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and western Austria beat all-time high records for the month. 2022-05-20
Austria reports a record 17,006 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,378,747. 2022-01-12
The Czech Police Forces announce that they will carry out random border checks with Austria as a preventive measure against terrorism. 2020-11-2
Five people are killed in an avalanche that buried 17 Czechs in Austria. 2016-02-6
Austria is to deploy its army on its borders with Germany and Slovenia in the wake of surging numbers of migrants entering the Central European country. 2016-01-16
Iran is invited to attend the next round of talks over Syria's future, along with the representatives from the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Britain, France, Germany, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Nations mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura. The next round of the "Vienna II" meeting is expected to start tomorrow and continue Friday in Vienna, Austria. 2015-10-27
A Sikh man is given a life sentence in Vienna, Austria, for murdering Rama Nand, a leader of the Dera Sach Khand sect in 2009; five other Indian-born defendants are given sentences of various lengths. 2010-09-28