Austria Police

A 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert, with chemical substances found during a search of his residence, Austria's general director for public security said.

Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police said on Saturday.

Austrian police said Saturday that the bodies of four people were recovered after a plane crashed in western Austria.

The unidentified Dutch criminal committed the crime from his residence in Amsterdam. According to the police, the 25-year-old advertised the data for sale in May 2020 on an online forum.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover, husband of Caroline of Monaco, received a ten-month suspended jail sentence in Austria on Tuesday for violence against a police officer and threatening employees, the Austrian press agency APA said.

The Vienna attacker shot dead by police was a sympathiser of the Islamic State group, Austria's interior minister said Tuesday.

Austrian officials unveiled Tuesday plans to "neutralise" Adolf Hitler's birth house by turning it into a police station, with the building receiving some cosmetic changes in the process.

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announced on Tuesday, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

Austrian police are looking for thieves who stole bells from cows grazing in three pastures in the west of the alpine country, a spokesman said Monday.

A young Austrian triathlete kidnapped while riding her bike talked her way to freedom by complimenting her captor's orchids, a police source said Saturday, confirming press reports.

A 22-year-old Austrian man might have thought himself lucky after police in the city of Eisenstadt found his lost wallet -- had it not been full of ten fake 50 euro notes.

A kangaroo is on the loose and has been spotted in forests and meadows in Austria, police said Monday. The animal -- not a native to the central European country -- has been seen numerous times since late last week in Hellmonsoedt district in Upper Austria state.

Austrian police say that they have found further body parts during searches carried out after a torso was discovered on the bed of a lake.

About 100 police and law enforcement officials searched the luxury carmaker's Munich headquarters and a site in Austria, prosecutors said, adding they had opened an investigation last month against unknown persons for suspected fraud. Legal sources said the facility searched in Austria was BMW's engine plant in Steyr, where the company employs abou...

A 26-year-old Austrian was shot dead outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna on Sunday night after he attacked a guard with a knife, Austrian police said.

A 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert, with chemical substances found during a search of his residence, Austria's general director for public security said.

Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police said on Saturday.

Austrian police said Saturday that the bodies of four people were recovered after a plane crashed in western Austria.

The unidentified Dutch criminal committed the crime from his residence in Amsterdam. According to the police, the 25-year-old advertised the data for sale in May 2020 on an online forum.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover, husband of Caroline of Monaco, received a ten-month suspended jail sentence in Austria on Tuesday for violence against a police officer and threatening employees, the Austrian press agency APA said.

The Vienna attacker shot dead by police was a sympathiser of the Islamic State group, Austria's interior minister said Tuesday.

Austrian officials unveiled Tuesday plans to "neutralise" Adolf Hitler's birth house by turning it into a police station, with the building receiving some cosmetic changes in the process.

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announced on Tuesday, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

Austrian police are looking for thieves who stole bells from cows grazing in three pastures in the west of the alpine country, a spokesman said Monday.

A young Austrian triathlete kidnapped while riding her bike talked her way to freedom by complimenting her captor's orchids, a police source said Saturday, confirming press reports.

A 22-year-old Austrian man might have thought himself lucky after police in the city of Eisenstadt found his lost wallet -- had it not been full of ten fake 50 euro notes.

A kangaroo is on the loose and has been spotted in forests and meadows in Austria, police said Monday. The animal -- not a native to the central European country -- has been seen numerous times since late last week in Hellmonsoedt district in Upper Austria state.

Austrian police say that they have found further body parts during searches carried out after a torso was discovered on the bed of a lake.

About 100 police and law enforcement officials searched the luxury carmaker's Munich headquarters and a site in Austria, prosecutors said, adding they had opened an investigation last month against unknown persons for suspected fraud. Legal sources said the facility searched in Austria was BMW's engine plant in Steyr, where the company employs abou...

A 26-year-old Austrian was shot dead outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna on Sunday night after he attacked a guard with a knife, Austrian police said.