An American biotechnology company is developing an implantable weight-loss device as an alternative to weekly injections of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Researcher Adam Mendelsohn, based in…
Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination has dropped its recommendation for a baseline Covid-19 vaccination for healthy adults, saying broad immunity across the population and declining severe outc…
Rivers and lakes across Austria and Germany are entering peak summer at historically low levels following months of below-average rainfall, prompting transport disruptions and environmental alarm. Aus…
Tadej Pogacar launched a devastating solo attack in the Pyrenees on Wednesday to win the sixth stage of the Tour de France by two minutes and 38 seconds over rival Jonas Vingegaard, seizing control of…
The European Parliament has voted to hold an emergency ballot on Thursday over whether to revive a lapsed regulation allowing platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp to voluntarily scan private messa…
AI chatbots exhibit significant editorial bias and surface Russian disinformation when retrieving news, according to a study published Wednesday by Agora Digitale Transformation, a Berlin-based think…
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Thursday that streaming providers cannot blanket-exclude consumers' right of withdrawal from digital subscription contracts, bolstering subscriber p…
The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a sweeping update to air passenger rights on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with a 646-to-12 vote. The reform preserves existing co…
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has detected 31 quasars in the early universe, a haul that doubles the number of ancient quasars previously known. Two of the objects, EUCL J172902.7…
German author Christine Wunnicke has been awarded the 2026 Georg Büchner Prize, one of the most prestigious literary honours in the German-speaking world. The prize, conferred by the German Academy fo…
Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. have deepened their manufacturing partnership with a deal to produce more than 15 billion chips on American soil, anchoring the tech giant's push to shift critical supply…
An Austrian court has ruled that banning Muslim women from wearing burkinis in a hotel swimming pool constitutes religious discrimination, upholding fines against two hotel managers in the Pongau regi…
Markus Braun, the former chief executive of collapsed payments group Wirecard, told a Munich court on Wednesday that he feels lonely and isolated after six years of uninterrupted pretrial detention. S…
A new World Health Organization report has laid bare persistent and widening inequities in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment worldwide, warning that annual cases are projected to rise from r…
Seventeen nations and several United Nations agencies launched a coalition on Tuesday aimed at ensuring artificial intelligence systems respect children's rights, pledging to make child safety a bindi…
An Austrian appeals court has ordered the resumption of fraud proceedings against actor Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, overturning a prior settlement that would have ended the case with a fine. The Higher Re…
A bear was spotted in the mountainous outskirts of Thiersee, a village in Austria's Tyrol region, on Monday morning, prompting local authorities to issue safety warnings and advise residents to keep d…
Alpine associations in Austria, Germany, and South Tyrol have launched a joint information campaign to combat the spread of bed bugs in mountain shelters and destigmatise the issue for hikers and hut…
DJ Kygo has released a remix of a ten-year-old rap song recorded by Erling Braut Haaland, fulfilling a pledge made ahead of Norway's World Cup round-of-16 match against Brazil. The track, "Kygo Jo (fe…
Mariska Hargitay will host the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on 14 September, NBC announced, marking the first time a woman has hosted the ceremony since 2011. The broadcast will air live on NBC and stre…