Sources: BBC
Five people are killed, another is injured and power outages are reported during a major snowstorm in Linz and Tyrol, Austria. 2026-02-20
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sells for US$236.4 million ({{Euro}}203.2 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the most expensive modern art piece. 2025-11-18
Police in Vienna, Austria, announce that they have banned a pro-Palestinian protest over mentions of "from the river to the sea" in invitations and the characterization of the protest as a call for violence. 2023-10-11
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
Germany will close its border with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol region beginning on the evening of February 14 because of a high risk of variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-11
Austria expels a Russian diplomat following a report accusing the envoy of being involved in economic espionage after an Austrian who works in a technology company confessed that he carried out espionage for years on behalf of the Russian, who was his intelligence handler. 2020-08-24
Two people from Lombardy, Italy, living in Austria's state of Tyrol, test positive for coronavirus. 2020-02-25
Six members of one family, including three children, are found dead in Böheimkirchen, Austria. Police suspect a murder-suicide by one of the female relatives. 2016-12-1
Germany reintroduces emergency controls on its border with Austria. 2015-09-13
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