A German pensioner strangled his wife, dismembered her body and encased her head in concrete before dumping the remains in suitcases in an Austrian lake and drowning himself, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.
The number of refugees arriving in Germany has fallen off sharply in the past few days, with police reporting half the number of new arrivals this weekend compared with last.
A man suspected by French security authorities of helping to organize Friday's terror attacks in Paris visited Austria in September after passing through Germany, Austria's Interior Minister said on Tuesday.
Germany said on Friday that asylum seekers would only be able to enter the country at five points along its border with Austria to better control a mass influx.
Police near Passau, on the Bavarian border with Austria, have warned that there are no places left in emergency accommodation centres as crowds wait to cross into Germany in plummeting temperatures.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited coalition leaders to an emergency meeting at the weekend after Bavarian Minister President Horst Seehofer issued an ultimatum on the refugee crisis.
Bavarian leader Horst Seehofer warned Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday that unless she finds a way to limit the number of refugees arriving via Austria by Sunday, he will consider acting alone.
Thousands of exhausted refugees received a hero's welcome Sunday as they streamed into Germany and other European nations, but Austria warned the emergency measures are only "temporary" as the EU struggles to establish a united response to the crisis.
Court proceedings opened on Monday against an Austrian newspaper for publishing a photo of a German man wrongly identified as the co-pilot who officials say deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane in the French Alps in March.
Austrian police are searching for a 30-year-old man who allegedly forced a car-pooling woman into working as a courier for his drug deliveries around Germany.
Germans leaving to work abroad tend to be more interested in new career and life experiences than earning a lot of money, a study published on Tuesday showed.
A Munich man and woman have been arrested in Austria on charges of joining jihadist groups fighting in Syria, where they had travelled with the woman's young son, officials said on Thursday.
If you’ve lived in Germany, or you learnt Hochdeutsch at school, you may be surprised by some of the language differences between Austria and parts of Germany.
A ten-year-old girl and her 21-year-old brother were killed overnight in a road accident on the A1 motorway in Upper Austria, caused by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road.
A 45-year-old German woman died when she was attacked by a herd of 20 cows and calves on Monday afternoon on an Alpine pasture in Tyrol's Stubaital valley.
Germany coach Joachim Löw insists the settling of a 32-year-old World Cup score should not be a motivator for Algeria in Monday's last 16 clash at Brazil 2014.
The Local recently asked a selection of Germans to tell us what they think of their neighbours who live in the land of Mozart, Wiener Schnitzel, and Red Bull.
Germans and Austrians are the odd couple of Europe. They speak almost the same language, share a troubled history, and watch many of the same TV shows.
Home to 8.5 million people, Austria is an oft-overlooked nexus of culture, cake and music. Now, The Local is ready to shine a light on events at the centre of Europe.
Switzerland's top court on Thursday ordered Bank Austria to pay Germany €254 million following a legal battle dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall two decades ago.
Germany has provoked anger by demanding tax payments from people living in Austria but receiving pensions relating to work they carried out in Germany.
Austria solemnly marked Tuesday 75 years since German troops crossed the border unopposed on the early hours of March 12, 1938 and "annexed" Adolf Hitler's homeland into the Third Reich.
The owner of a Viennese ice cream parlour admitted on Monday to killing her German husband and then a lover - shooting them, cutting up their bodies with a chainsaw and concreting them into the basement of her shop.
