Conservative Chancellor Nehammer rejected calls by President Alexander Van der Bellen - of the Greens, running for re-election - to make naturalisation easier, stating that there will be no softening on citizenship

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme athlete who became the first person to break the sound barrier in a freefall jump in 2012, died in a paragliding crash on Italy's eastern coast; he was 56 and reportedly died because of a heart attack while flying

Two streets in Braunau am Inn, Adolf Hitler's hometown, are to be renamed following a 28 to 9 vote by the city council as they are named after classical music composer Josef Reiter and entertainer Franz Resl, both of whom were Nazi party members

A convicted Syrian offender has been deported to his country, marking its first forced return to Syria in 15 years

A wave of shock is upsetting Austria after a former student, who reportedly had felt bullied, opened fire at his high school killing 10 people and himself, in one of the worst European school shootings ever; he used legally acquired weapons