Austrian police searched today for a man suspected of shooting dead his brother, sister and their spouses in Vienna.

Austrian police were today searching for a man suspected of shooting two married couples found dead in a Vienna suburb.

AUSTRIAN Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said his government planned to launch an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an incest case that shocked the world.

WATCHING the gruesome details of the Austrian incest case unfold, one question on many people’s minds is: “How could this be allowed to happen?”

The Austrian dungeon ordeal children and their mother are inching towards normal life in a spacious hospital wing, doctors said today.

Police in Austria are examining links between the murder of a young woman and the man who has confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Long-lost members of an Austrian family terrorised by decades of imprisonment had an “astonishing” reunion at the clinic where psychiatrists are helping them cope.

Long-lost members of an Austrian family terrorised by decades of imprisonment had an "astonishing" reunion at the clinic where psychiatrists are helping them cope, authorities said today.

A man who posed as a policeman and apparently tried to rob two plain-clothes officers in Austria was shot dead by one of the pair, police said today.

HURRICANE-force winds across Europe at the weekend killed 13 people and left a trail of destruction, as cars were blown off the road, roofs were ripped offand trees fell like matchsticks.

Powerful storms hit central Europe today, killing at least eight people, media and officials said.

A second man has been held over the attempted bomb attack on America’s embassy in Vienna.

POLICE in Vienna, Austria, yesterday arrested a man found carrying a bag packed with hand grenades and nails at the US embassy.

Police in Vienna, Austria today arrested a man found carrying a bag packed with hand grenades and nails at the US embassy.

Austrian authorities today said a young woman found near Vienna had been identified as a girl who went missing more than eight years ago.

Authorities in the Austrian capital Vienna said today they arrested a man suspected of scamming hundreds of people by offering designer clothing for sale over the internet and pocketing their money without delivering the merchandise.

Five people drowned after a boat carrying tourists through Europe’s largest underground lake overturned in Austria today, dumping the 27 passengers and crew into chilly waters.

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

Police cordoned off Prague’s Old Town today and ordered residents to evacuate as emergency workers tried to save the historic district.

As many as 40,000 residents fled low-lying parts of Prague before dawn today, hours before the worst flood in more than 100 years was expected to hit the Czech capital.

Europe’s flood death toll has swelled to at least 74 as torrential rains unleashed raging waters that swept away Russian tourists, triggered landslides in Germany and Switzerland and shut down shipping on the Danube River in Austria.

At least 72 people have died across Europe as floods swept away Russian tourists, triggered landslides in Germany and Switzerland and shut down shipping on the Danube River in Austria.

Giant cranes lifted ruined cars and other debris out of the Black Sea today after 58 people, mostly Russian holidaymakers, died in torrential floods.

DOZENS of Austrian villagers spent a cold, wet night waiting to be rescued from their roofs after some of Europe’s worst flooding in decades.