Czech firefighters were battling a major chemical blaze in eastern Czech Republic on Friday after a freight train derailed and carcinogenic benzol from damaged tank wagons caught fire. The derailment took place near the station in the town of Hustopeče nad Bečvou around noon local time (1100 GMT),

Austria's three main centrist parties in parliament on Thursday (February 27) reached a deal to form a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) that won the last parliamentary election five months ago.

OMV, a multinational energy company based in Vienna, has shifted to other options, including increasing its own output of natural gas, drilling for oil and experimenting with geothermal energy.

Scotland will not be making any excuses for their opening Nations League defeat by Austria, says Kirsty Hanson.

Germany's Linda Dallmann came off the bench to score one goal and make another as her side hammered neighbours Austria 4-1 to move to the top of Nations League A Group 1, but they could be overtaken if the Netherlands beat Scotland later on Tuesday.

Austria's two biggest centrist parties are moving quickly towards a coalition deal without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after it failed to form a government, party officials said on Thursday. It would be third time lucky if the conservative People's Party (OVP) and Social Democrats (SPO) managed to strike a deal with some degree of support from smaller centrist parties,

Two women have died in a knife attack on Thursday at a shopping center in the Czech Republic, officials said. Police say they detained a teenage suspect in connection with the stabbings in a store in the city of Hradec Kralove,

Canada's Abigail Strate collected bronze on Sunday for her first World Cup ski jumping medal of the season. She scored 226.6 points over two jumps on the normal-size hill in Hinzenbach, Austria.

Armed with yarn, needles and hooks, dexterous moviegoers flock to a cinema in Vienna every month to combine their favourite hobbies: knits and flicks.

David Currie is joined by Lee Miller and Gemma Fay to look ahead to the weekend’s Premiership fixtures and preview Friday night’s Austria Scotland match as the SWNT kick off in the UEFA Women’s Nations League.

A house fire and possible explosion in Vienna injured a man and killed a dog early Thursday morning. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire on the 300 block of Blair Court Northwest in Vienna after 911 was called at 1:15 a.

Austrian parties looking to forge a centrist alliance of conservative, social democrat and liberal groups are making progress toward agreeing on a government program.