Psychologists have confirmed that playing violent video games is linked to aggressive and callous behaviour.

Google Street View has gone to many places before - including quite possibly the street where you grew up and the far reaches of the Grand Canyon. And now, they've scaled Mount Everest.

MOST of Quinn Insurance’s 1,600 employees are anxious its proposed sale to US insurer Liberty Mutual goes ahead because they believe it will safeguard their livelihoods, the High Court was told yesterday.

AUSTRIAN police have arrested an elderly man who they suspect imprisoned, beat and sexually abused his two mentally disabled daughters over a 40-year period.

Groups of rival worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Austrian capital pulled knives and at least one handgun in a mass fight today, injuring at least 11 people.

Another photo of Miley Cyrus has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons - this time she's poking fun at Asians.

I WOULD like to thank Dr Sandra McAvoy (Letters, December 2) for bringing the August 2008 report by the American Psychological Association (APA) to my attention.

JAMES McGrath (‘Women not misled on abortion trauma’, Letters, November 24) may have missed the August 2008 publication of the most comprehensive examination yet undertaken in relation to the psychological impacts of abortion: the American Psychological Association’s two-year evaluation of studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 1989.

The woman allegedly held captive by her father for 24 years was reported to have been questioned by prosecutors for the first time today.

A fire that engulfed a home for the elderly in western Austria killed 11 people and injured six others.

Police in the Austrian capital today said they were interrogating a young German citizen suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his entrails.

WE have let the Playboy bunny image come off the top shelf and into our children’s wardrobes.

Airline Partners Australia, the private equity consortium that failed in its AUS$11bn(€6.7bn) takeover bid for Qantas Airways, says it will not renew its offer.

The dramatic takeover attempt for iconic Australian airline Qantas collapsed today after the private equity firm bidding for the group admitted defeat.

AUSTRALIA’S takeover regulator has scuttled an A$11 billion (€6.64bn) bid for Qantas Airways after refusing yesterday to allow late support from a major shareholder who missed a deadline to accept the offer.

Six people were injured, one seriously, when a landslide caused part of a hotel in the Austrian Alps to collapse early today, authorities said.

Austrian industrialist and billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick has died at the age of 79, Austrian media reported today.

Austria’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by right-wing British author David Irving and affirmed the verdict, the Austria Press Agency reported.

Tests on DNA taken from the man who enslaved a young girl for eight years show he was not involved in any other known crimes, police said Saturday.

An Austrian court sentenced former Olympic figure skating gold medalist Wolfgang Schwarz to eight years in prison today for plotting to kidnap the teenage daughter of a prominent Romanian businessman and hold her for up to €3m in ransom.

Austrian former Formula One champion Niki Lauda has received a kidney from his girlfriend in a transplant operation, it was reported today.

An explosion ripped through a pizzeria in a town in the Austrian province of Styria early today, killing two children and injuring seven, authorities said.

Mourners today laid flowers and lit candles at an apartment complex in southern Austria where police found four dead babies – two stuffed in a freezer and two sealed in concrete-filled buckets.

THE Irish rugby team will run onto the pitch against their French rivals and will witness a unique sight.

A collision involving a shopping mall shuttle bus and a public transportation tram in Vienna killed two children and injured 17 people, police said today.

An elephant crushed a keeper to death at the Vienna Zoo today.

A cable car gondola carrying as many as four people crashed to the ground in eastern Austria today, injuring passengers, state broadcaster ORF reported.

FOUR British soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers are to face a court martial charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners, British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith announced yesterday.

A series of TV commercials for bitter starring comedian Peter Kay have been voted among the best adverts of the year.

Police were tonight trying to discover who tampered with the parachute of an experienced skydiver before he plunged 13,000 ft to his death.

ADOPTED people have criticised the decision of Children’s Minister Brian Lenihan not to appoint an adopted person to the incoming Adoption Board.

A decision to let victims of child abuse access their Government files through children’s charity Barnardo’s was today defended by a minister.

The children's charity Barnardo's is moving to calm fears expressed by the Adopted People's Association about a State child abuse database.

A passenger train carrying dozens of people crashed into a freight train near Vienna today, injuring 20 people, three seriously, according to a reports.

THOUSANDS of adopted people will be blocked from independently accessing their birth records under a new computerised public record system, an adoption group warned yesterday.

The church is being asked to apologise to thousands of pregnant women who were forcibly housed in Magdalene laundries in various parts of Ireland following the premier of a new film, Magdalene Sisters.