Sources: AP
Four people are injured in a hammer attack by a 20-year-old Syrian national on an Intercity Express train while it was between Straubing and Plattling in Bavaria, Germany. 2025-07-3
The death toll from the ongoing floods in Austria and Slovenia increases to six. 2023-08-7
Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer tests positive for COVID-19 and begins a period of self-isolation. 2022-01-7
The Philippines bans entry to flights from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Additionally, the entry of fully vaccinated foreign nationals from green-list countries that was expected to begin on December 1 is temporarily suspended. 2021-11-28
Bavarian minister-president Markus Söder announces that the annual Oktoberfest celebrations in Munich, scheduled for late September to October, will be cancelled for a second consecutive year due to the pandemic. 2021-05-3
The southern German state of Bavaria threatens to take the Federal German government to court if it fails to take immediate steps to limit the flow of migrants to Germany. Over 200,000 migrants are estimated to have entered Germany since the beginning of September, the vast majority over the Austrian border into Bavaria. 2015-10-9
The German state of Bavaria plans "emergency measures" in response to the migrant crisis, including deporting migrants back to Austria and closing the border. An estimated 225,000 migrants have arrived in the southern German state in less than five weeks. 2015-10-8
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
Two girls (11 and 8 years old) were brutally murdered in their home in Krailling, Bavaria (Germany). 2011-03-24
Nine people are thought to have been killed and 30 others are injured, some seriously, after a landslide caused a train to derail in Merano, near the Austrian border with Italy. 2010-04-12