VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria may pull its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights, evacuating the U.N. buffer zone, its defence minister warned on Tuesday, as Syria and Israel exchanged fire across a long dormant frontline now inflamed by civil war. Full story
VIENNA/HELSINKI (Reuters) - An Austrian man held hostage for five months in Yemen said he was kept in permanent darkness in a room too small to stand in and was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. Full story
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni kidnappers have released a Finnish couple and an Austrian man more than four months after they were seized in the capital Sanaa. Full story
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni kidnappers have freed a Finnish couple and an Austrian man missing since being taken hostage in the capital Sanaa in December 2012, a senior Yemeni security source said on Thursday. Full story
OBERWALTERSDORF, Austria (Reuters) - "The government is the management team of a country and unfortunately that management is made up of politicians." Full story
VIENNA (Reuters) - Most Austrians are in favor of relaxing the strict banking secrecy rules that have isolated the Alpine republic from its European peers, according to two polls published on Saturday. Full story
A 43-year-old daredevil known as ’Fearless Felix’ is set to skydive from 23 miles above Earth and plummet for more than five minutes with supersonic speeds reaching up to 700 miles per hour. TODAY’s Natalie Morales reports.
An Austrian town celebrates the end of summer with an annual cattle drive that brings the cows down from the mountains and back to the valley for fall. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
CNBC's Kelly Evans reports on all the market moving events from Europe, including an update from the ECB on interest rates, and Moody's credit downgrade of six German banks and three Austrian banks, despite relative strength in both economies.
A chapel is seen in front of the snow covered Karwendel mountains on a sunny spring day in the western Austrian village of Silz April 28, 2013 REUTERS/ Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)
A chapel is seen in front of the snow covered Karwendel mountains on a sunny spring day in the western Austrian village of Silz April 28, 2013. REUTERS/ Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA - Tags: RELIGION ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
A woman reads a book as snow covered mountain summits are seen on a sunny spring day in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck April 25, 2013. REUTERS/ Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
People lie on deck chairs on Seegrube mountain on a sunny spring day in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck April 25, 2013. REUTERS/ Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
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