The Viennale has appointed Franz Schwartz as interim artistic director, following the death of Hans Hurch. The plan of how to carry on with this year’s festival, scheduled to run from Oct. 19-Nov. 2, was announced on Thursday, as colleagues and friends gathered for the funeral of the Austrian film festival’s longtime leader. Hurch, who...

Gulf Air and Aegean Airlines, Greece’s largest carrier, have entered into a codeshare partnership widening their respective networks across Europe and the Middle East. Specifically, travellers can now codeshare on flights from Bahrain, via Athens, to and from the European cities of Brussels and Rome while travellers from Geneva, Milan and Vienna can now codeshare on flights, via Athens, to the Kingdom of Bahrain with Gulf Air.

In a new solo exhibition of the work of in the artist's home city of , the "Fat House"—created in 2003—is being publicly displayed for the first time amid the baroque splendor of the Austrian capital's historic Upper . The central exhibition of Wurm's work at  comprises over forty "performative sculptures" and statues, examining "extraordinary examples of architecture and objects of daily use."

"Bachelor" winner Vienna Girardi announced tragic news this weekend about the miscarriage of her twin daughters. Vienna -- who won Jake Pavelka's season of "The Bachelor" in 2010 -- took to Facebook Sunday to reveal she suffered a...

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VIENNA • The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has gathered enough evidence for President Bashar al-Assad to be convicted of war crimes, a prominent member of the commission, Ms Carla del Ponte, said in remarks published yesterday.

Manchester City set to sign Nigeria international Olarenwaju Kayode from Austria Vienna

Manchester City sign Nigeria striker Olarenwaju Kayode from Austria Vienna on a four year deal and immediately loan him out to Spanish side Girona.

Beat the rush and get ahead on planning your Christmas market mini-break now. We've found some cheap flights and paired them with a wonderful Airbnb apartment, with it's own jacuzzi bath and terrace area, in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Visit one of the most highly rated winter markets of the season and invest in…

Viennality 2017 has concluded and was a major stop in the Injustice 2 Pro Series, featuring a whopping $20,000 pot, which drew in a lot of big names. Additionally, there were Tekken 7, Mortal Kombat X, and Guilty Gear XRD Rev 2 events

Great empires and countries often fall victim to hubris. The realisation that you are on top of things can sometimes make you act recklessly in conflict. The mighty Americans experienced this in Vietnam and a few decades before that Nazi Germany, tried to grab everything in Europe only to suffer the most humiliating of defeats. The Turks in the 17th century, when they tried to stretch their hands to grab the most important of all prizes, Vienna, and the British Empire’s short-lived excursion into Afghanistan are examples of reverses suffered by great powers when their ambitions tried to defy reason and logic. Modern-day China is in a similar situation. Two years ago, the Middle Kingdom’s...