Former James Bond Star Sir Roger Moore and Danish model Birgit Nielsen will accompany an Austrian entrepreneur at this year’s Vienna Opera Ball. Photo: Luger with pictures of Nielsen and Moore. 

Austrian born actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday visited the Austrian town of Güssing which meets its energy needs through renewables. Photo: With Güssing Mayor Peter Vadasz.  

Former East Germany's last leader Erich Honecker had a difficult marriage with his wife Margot, new intelligence reports reveal, with both partners having affairs.

An Austrian man has vowed to take to Europe's highest court his legal battle to be allowed to change his surname to Tomahawk after judges scalped his efforts in his home country (Photo: Indian with tomahawk).

Mail-order magnate Werner Otto, who founded the company that bears his name and later established the U.S. real estate investment company Paramount, has died. He was 102.

Actor and singer Johannes Heesters died on Saturday aged 108, his agency said. Born in the Netherlands in 1903 he made his name performing in Germany in the 1930s.

Sandra Bullock has admitted on NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno to smuggling delectable sausage from Germany into the United States for Christmastime.  

German supermodel Claudia Schiffer has denied a claim by a Russian man that he impregnated her following a Moscow sex romp in 2009.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a disgraced German
politician who went into self-imposed exile nine months ago,
re-emerged Monday with an honorary post as a European Union adviser.

German film legend Johannes Heesters was released from hospital Sunday in time to celebrate his 108th birthday today, his longtime agent Jürgen Ross told the news agency dpa Sunday.

Heesters was committed to hospital a week ago, He had been complaining of fatigue and was running a fever. Photo: Heesters with his wife, actress Simone Rethel-Heesters.

Former head of the socialist Left Party Oskar Lafontaine has confirmed he is in a relationship with Sahra Wagenknecht, a prominent representative of the left-wing of the party.

Rumor has it that American film director Steven Spielberg’s ancestors originate from Spielberg, a town in the Austrian province of Styria. 

A mansion formerly lived in by Muammar Qaddafi youngest son is in limbo in Munich, partly because his eccentric revamp of the interior could make the luxury property difficult to sell.

Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated Friday in his native Austria a museum that is devoted to him. An earlier photo shows Arnie looking at the bronce statue in his image which he unveiled at Friday's ceremony.

The actress Kirsten Dunst has added a German passport to her American one, according to an interview she gave with a Berlin newspaper.

Lindsay Lohan has fuelled rumors she is dating German fashion designer Philip Plein after they were photographed walking hand-in-hand and kissing in Milan, Italy.

It could be an Oktoberfest rumor, but it’s the kind of rumor guys love to believe: Deutsche girls wear nothing under their beautiful Dirndls. The tabloid Bild sent a reporter to Munich’s Wiesn to find out.

A teenager, who turned up in Berlin after a two-week walk, has baffled the police with his claim that he has come from a forest where he and his father had been living off the land for the past five years.

René Obermann, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom has been crowned as this year’s worst language offender by a German language watchdog.

The heir to the Prussian throne, Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, will tie the knot with Sophie Princess of Isenburg on Saturday.

A German journalist has claimed that Princess Diana was secretly engaged to Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed before she died in August 1997.

Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - once touted as a future German chancellor - is moving to the United States with wife Stephanie and their two daughters.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has suffered a setback when a politician tapped to be the forerunner of a regional election was forced to quit over sex with a teen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home in his birthplace of Thal in southern Austria has been turned into a museum. The event had been timed to coincide with his birthday, but Schwarzenegger was not present.

Anna Netrebko and base-bariton companion Erwin Schrott have told the Austrian magazine News they planned to open a restaurant, probably in Vienna.

Otto Habsburg, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor and the longtime head of one of Europe's most influential families, died in Bavaria Monday.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke at a UN conference in Austria, where he said he misses "the music of Mozart" and a "juicy wienerschnitzel."

Belgium honored a Californian veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, Germany's last major offensive and a turning point in World War II, the Lost Angeles Times reports. 

Berlin's popular and openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit marks a decade since taking office on Thursday, and his remarkable political success continues to puzzle those who said he'd never make it.

An Austrian artist has terrified North African asylum seekers on the Italian island of Lampedusa by posing as Libyan strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi.