A 'blasphemous' sculpture of the Virgin Mary showing her with her legs spread open as she gives birth to Jesus has been beheaded in an Austrian cathedral. The artwork showed…
A Hungarian velvet jacket that once belonged to Empress Sisi has sold for GBP 52,000 at auction in Austria. The auction took place in Vienna on 11th June, and saw…
The other planets in our solar system have the ability to influence climate change on earth according to a new study conducted by Austrian, British and American scientists. The research…
A necropolis found in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron…
A brave woman who refused to accept that she had to speak Italian when Austria lost South Tyrol to the fascists after the First World War has said she wants…
Microscopic pieces of plastic from European cities such as London and Paris have been detected in the Austrian Alps at about 3,106 metres above sea level. Recent measurements taken at…
German and Austrian palaeontologists have reconstructed an 80-million-year-old dinosaur that was probably a slow-moving, hard-of-hearing loner. Struthiosaurus austriacus was up to eight metres (26 feet) tall, sluggish, had poor hearing…
Vienna’s Natural History Museum has discovered 33 new species of snails that lived millions of years ago after unboxing them from their 150-year storage. The Museum of Natural History in…
A meerkat mom has recently delivered an adorable little pup that made its first-ever public appearance in an Austrian zoo. Meerkat mom named Zuzu from the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo located…
A young Ural owl that hatched in the Vienna zoo several months ago will be released in the wilderness where it will have a chance to grow in a new…