Reporting from Vienna — Former Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock, who made international headlines nearly three decades ago when he cut through the barbed wire that represented the communist Iron ...

Wolfgang Gaida, the 52-year mayor of Hohenau an der March, an Austrian village lying on the border with Slovakia, used to swim as a boy with his friends in nearby Morava river. They knew that there ...

TEMELIN NUCLEAR PLANT, Czech Republic – A quarter-century after the collapse of communism, Central Europe faces a new divide: irreconcilable visions of nuclear power that pit nations once on the ...

Austria's new, important role in the revitalisation of its eastern neighbours could help to restore Vienna's significance in Europe. A German travel writer visiting Vienna in 1838 noted that the ...

Curtainmaking comes with a language all its own. Balloon shade-A curtain that is gathered horizontally across the heading and, as it is pulled up, also is gathered vertically. The British call it an ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Former Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock has died, more than three decades after he and his Hungarian counterpart made headlines by cutting through fencing that represented the ...