Sources: AP
One person is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack when a 21-year-old man stabs employees at a company in Mellrichstadt, Bavaria, Germany. 2025-07-1
Seven people are killed and 16 others are injured when a vehicle carrying illegal immigrants from the Middle East crashes in Mühldorf, Bavaria, Germany. 2023-10-13
Floods and landslides occur in southern Austria, with water being pumped out of a dam in the Viktring district of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, after concerns are raised over its stability. 2023-08-5
Sebastian Kurz becomes the new Chancellor of Austria and a new government is inaugurated. 2017-12-18
The bodies of eight babies are found wrapped in towels and inside plastic bags in an apartment in the town of Wallenfels in Germany's state of Bavaria. Authorities are looking for the apartment's most recent occupant, Andrea G, a 45-year-old woman. 2015-11-13
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
Michael Spindelegger resigns as vice-chancellor and finance minister of Austria; as leader of the Austrian People's Party, he is replaced by Reinhold Mitterlehner. 2014-08-26
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
Austria's Leopold Museum agrees to pay $19 million to the estate of Jewish art dealer Egon Schiele's for "Portrait of Wally", stolen from her by Nazism in World War II. 2010-07-21