François Murphy

Austrian former property billionaire Rene Benko has lodged an appeal against his conviction last week for insolvency-related fraud and the two-year prison sentence it incurred, his lawyer said on Monday.

Austrian former billionaire Rene Benko went on trial on Tuesday in the first case connected to the collapse of his property group Signa, which at its peak acquired stakes in New York's Chrysler Building and British department-store chain Selfridges.

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said on Monday in an apparent reference to the Gaza ceasefire.

Austria's government has renegotiated civil servants' annual pay rise, saving 310 million euros ($361 million) next year, it said on Wednesday, as it tries to tackle a budget deficit over the EU limit and the highest inflation in western Europe.

Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities.

Workers broke through a final, thin veil of rock on Thursday, opening an underground tunnel between Austria and Italy that will eventually become a high-speed rail line linking the north and south of Europe.

Ryanair said on Wednesday it was scrapping three routes out of Vienna and pulling out three of its 19 aircraft based there in its winter schedule, demanding Austria scrap its aviation tax and lower airport and air-traffic control fees.

Iran's uranium-enrichment programme must be "completely dismantled", U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the U.N. nuclear watchdog's annual General Conference on Monday.

While the European Central Bank's focus is on average inflation across the euro zone, it is important that countries' inflation rates not move further apart in the longer term, policymaker Martin Kocher said in an interview published on Monday.

Austrian prosecutors on Thursday accused the founder of the collapsed Signa property group, Rene Benko, of hiding watches and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of euros in a safe so they could not be recovered to repay creditors.