President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, on Friday, underscored the need to have a budget reform that will include a law on timeliness in budget passing.

An Austrian man who smuggled 88 living reptiles including 43 poisonous snakes from the Philippines was stopped by customs officers at Vienna airport, Austria’s Finance Ministry said Thursday.

An Austrian court has ruled that a German hiker who was trampled to death by cows was partly to blame for the accident in a case which has sparked national debate.

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said Sunday he wanted snap elections to take place in September after the government collapsed over a corruption scandal.

Belgium's Flemish nationalist party said on Sunday it will quit the ruling coalition, leaving Prime Minister Charles Michel as the head of a minority government after a row over a UN migration pact. Interior Minister Jan Jambon of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) confirmed on Sunday that he and the party's other ministers would step…

International payments provider MoneyGram has announced an expansion of its digital platform to five new countries.  The service is now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. With the expansion, customers in these countries can send money directly to more than two billion bank accounts and mobile wallets or to any MoneyGram location…

Representatives of Austria, Germany and Switzerland have reiterated commitment to expanding business activities and workforce in Nigeria, following the recent ranking by the World Bank Ease of Doing Business index which placed the country among the 10 most improved economies. The delegate of German Industry and Commerce in Nigeria, Marc Lucassen, said foreign businessmen were…

Football fans came down hard on the Super Eagles for a tame first half performance in the international friendly against England at the weekend, but AS Monaco left back, Elderson Echiejile and his Manager ...

A teenager has confessed to the murder of a 7-year-old whose body was found in a rubbish skip, Austrian police said Tuesday. The girl's body was found on Saturday morning in the Doebling district of the capital Vienna, shocking the city. She had been reported missing the previous day by a relative. A 16-year-old neighbour…

The body of a 7-year-old girl who had been reported missing has been found in a rubbish skip, police in the Austrian capital Vienna said Saturday. The gruesome discovery was made on Saturday morning in the Doebling district of the city when municipal refuse workers came to empty the skip. "The little girl was last…

Austria's political "whizz-kid" Sebastian Kurz was on course Sunday to become Europe's youngest leader, potentially in coalition with the far-right, after his conservative party looked to have triumphed in elections. Kurz's People's Party (OeVP) won 30.5 percent of the vote, followed by Chancellor Christian Kern's Social Democrats (SPOe) on 27.1 percent and the far-right Freedom…

The EU's top court on Wednesday backed decisions by Austria and Slovenia to deport asylum seekers back to Croatia at the height of the European migrant crisis in 2015.