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BBC News
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An Austrian man who admitted holding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children is due to appear before a regional court.
Josef Fritzl, 73, is being held at a court near his home in Amstetten, Lower Austria, where a judge wi..
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CNN
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A 73-year-old man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in his home cellar for nearly 24 years and fathering seven children by her, Austrian police say. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN, the man, known as Mr. F., admitted holding hi..
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FOX News
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service, died Thursday, Austrian media reported. He was 88.
Waldheim, who was hospitalized in Vie..
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BBC News
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Austrian former kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has said she is finding it hard to adjust to her new life...
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BBC News
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A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.
The head of the criminal affairs bureau in the province of Lower Austria, Franz Polzer, told the BBC that..
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CNN
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An avalanche fell on a street in an Alpine town in Austria, close to many ski resorts, covering the roadway in 3-4 meters of snow, but no one was hurt, Austrian police said Tuesday.
The avalanche happened at 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) in the town of Ims..
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BBC News
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The former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Josef Waldheim has died aged 88, Austrian media has reported.
The career of Mr Waldheim, who headed the UN from 1972 to 1982, was overshadowed by a scandal about his secretive World War II service.
De..
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BBC News
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Austrian police have arrested the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is wanted on kidnapping charges in his country.
Rakhat Aliyev was sacked as ambassador to Austria on Saturday, amid an escalating family feud.
The Kazakh auth..
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CNN
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Forty suspects were arrested and thousands of videos, CDs and DVDs seized in a police raid that was part of a yearlong crackdown on child pornography, Austrian authorities said Friday.
Officials detailing what they said involved months of undercover in..
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CNN
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Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos depicting young children being sexu..
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