MORE than half of EU leaders will boycott a major European conference in Austria next week in a humiliating backlash against right wing Vienna's anti-migration stance.

The Imperial City, famous for its music, architecture and culture, will welcome the new property in 2021, bringing a playful twist to the conventional hotel scene in Austria’s capital.

The European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has yet to be heard on the forced eviction of the Central European University from Budapest to Vienna. Just months before crucial European parliament elections, EU leaders should not shy away from this debate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Energy Minister Alexander Novak held discussions prior to a meeting with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak will hold separate bilateral meetings with the oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran ahead of a main meeting of oil producers in Vienna on Friday on output cuts, TASS news agency cited sources as saying.

After a number of reports indicated the potential United States and China trade deal was in jeopardy on Thursday, stock markets in the U.S. drastically fell, according to The Washington Post. The Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 625 points, nearly 2.5 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 1.9 percent into correction territory. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was off 2.2 percent. Analysts said the Dow and S&P 500 both eliminated all the gains for 2018 and are officially having their worst quarter in seven years. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries scheduled a meeting on Thursday in Vienna to address a planned production cut of 1 million barrels per...

OPEC has made a planned cut in oil output effectively conditional on the contribution from non-OPEC producer Russia, OPEC delegates said on Thursday as the group gathered for a meeting in Vienna.