Three British skiers, including one eight-year-old boy, were airlifted to hospital after being involved in separate skiing accidents at the same resort in Austria. Heavy snowfall at the Tyrolean ski resort of Obergurgl have meant there is plenty of deep snow which
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution presented by Egypt demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and for the release of all hostages. Just before the vote was taken during an emergency special session, the
A who’s who of leading American Jewish organizations and one of Israel’s top counterterrorism experts on Sunday appealed to the U.S., Germany and Austria to issue citizenship to the over 200 hostages held by the terrorist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
A British tourist has plummeted 300 feet to his death in Austria while climbing an aerial ladder that is popular in Instagram photos, reports say. The 42-year-old — whose name has not been publicly revealed — plunged into a valley in the
A bus coach traveling through Austria on Tuesday went off the road and crashed on its side, killing a woman and injuring 20 other passengers, Austria’s APA agency reported. The accident took place near the village of Micheldorf in Carinthia state in
In Austria, a tragic incident unfolded at Salzburg’s Hellbrunn Zoo when a rhinoceros attacked a married couple who both worked as zookeepers. The woman died in the attack, and the man suffered severe injuries while attempting to save her, according to authorities.
Authorities on Sunday found 53 people apparently headed for Germany crammed into a small truck that was stopped in the Austrian city of Linz. Four men were in the cabin of the vehicle when it was stopped on Sunday morning, one of
Torrential rains and heavy floods have ravaged southern Austria for the past three days, killing one person who was swept away by a quickly swelling river on Sunday, officials said. After the person fell into the river, firefighters, divers and water rescuers
The German government on Friday warned the elderly, people with health conditions, pregnant women and parents with young children to seek out cool places amid forecasts for a sharp rise in temperatures over the weekend. The country’s weather agency, DWD, predicted the
Three patients died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna, Austrian authorities said Tuesday. The blaze started in a fourth-floor room at the hospital in Moedling, and rescuers were unable to save three