The Australian city of Melbourne was named the world's most livable city for a record seventh year in a row in a global survey that was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on Wednesday. Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, received perfect scores for ...
For Misaki Morino, Vienna lives up to both its names: The City of Music and The City of Dreams.
Twin panda cubs Fu Feng and Fu Ban are celebrating their first birthday at a zoo in Vienna with gifts of their favorite foods — sweet potatoes and carrots. While mother Yang Yang and Fu Ban tucked in to the treat-filled packets, Fu Feng remained ...
Vienna, Austria's grand capital on the Danube river, has topped consulting firm Mercer's list of cities offering the highest quality of life for the eighth year in a row, while Baghdad is again considered the worst place to live. The survey of 231 cities helps ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency alleged Wednesday that Russian athletes and government agencies continued to obstruct and deceive drug testers, even as Russia tries to regain its place in Olympic track and field. In a report published two days before a key vote on whether to ...
Austrian police have detained a 17-year-old Swedish girl who said she was on her way to Syria and is suspected of planning to join Islamist militants there, a Vienna police spokesman said on Sunday. The parents of the girl, who has no previous link with ...
Russia accused the United States on Thursday of hijacking preparatory talks for a weekend meeting of nearly 20 nations focused on ending the Syrian war. The charge was denied by U.S. officials, who expressed surprise that Moscow did not show up. The dispute appeared to ...
The success or failure of the Syrian peace talks this week is tied to the fate of one man who's not even at the table: President Bashar Assad. Neither Assad nor any of his representatives are in Vienna, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ...
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary. In the latest twist in a humanitarian and political crisis ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry threatened Thursday to walk away from nuclear talks as he signaled that diplomats won't conclude an agreement over the coming hours — another delay that this time could complicate American efforts to quickly implement any deal. "This is not ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will fly back to Tehran and is expected to return by Tuesday to Vienna where negotiators are still at odds on some elements of a final nuclear deal, including the scope of monitoring. Zarif's shuttle diplomacy isn't unexpected and ...
The United States has derailed a proposal to toughen nuclear safety standards by amending a global atomic treaty, diplomats said, with opponents of the move arguing it would get mired in lengthy parliamentary ratification. Months of wrangling about the future of the 77-nation Convention on ...
