For the ÖAMTC air rescue, the semester holidays are traditionally one of the busiest times. This year, too, the Christophorus crews were heavily in demand.

The first avalanche alerts were already issued in Tyrol on Saturday morning! In Serfaus (Landeck district), a winter sports ...

A Hungarian worker has died and his colleague remains in a life-threatening condition following a tragic industrial accident ...

NAPLES, Fla. — The annual Greek Festival returned to Naples this weekend, offering visitors a full slate of authentic Greek food, music and cultural traditions despite frigid cold weather approaching ...

Joachim Kaufmann, the longtime CEO of German publisher Carlsen Verlag, will become president and CEO of the Frankuter Buchmesse, or Frankfurt Book Fair, effective September 1. Kaufmann will take over ...

Catholic faithful and clergy have expressed mixed reactions after Franciscan Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur resigned, a year after he declined to become a cardinal. Bishop Paskalis, who served as the ...

The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. His name in Italian is Cristoforo Colombo, and in Spanish Cristóbal Colón. The story of Columbus is not at all ...

The Vienna emergency medical helicopter Christophorus 9 was alerted a total of 1,449 times in 2025 – an average of four missions per day. It was particularly often about acute medical emergencies.

In a world where social media defines so much of our identity, we measure our worth by likes, followers, status updates, and comments. But amid the digital noise, a timeless question lingers: Who is ...

Letter from Dutch chemist and meteorologist CHD Buys Ballot to Galton regarding his research methods and publications. A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers ...

In the 1960s, Honda offered a tiny motorcycle called the Z-Series that fit neatly in the trunk of the S600 sports car. Porsche never jumped on this niche bandwagon, but it had a similar idea a decade ...