Make sure to stay in the shade this weekend and drink plenty of water as extreme heat arrives back in Austria.

People sail their floating island along the Old Danube river during a hot summer day in Vienna, Austria, on July 1, 2025.

More than 100 people travelling on the Swiss river cruiser Thurgau Prestige were allowed to leave on Tuesday, after the flooding had confined them to the vessel in Vienna over the past few days.

T here’s a section of the Danube in Austria that seduces all comers. It’s a bucolic 22-mile stretch, where the river sashays through a valley whose slopes are strung like a harp with vineyards.

A Bulgarian cruise ship carrying over a hundred passengers has crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in Austria. The incident occurred overnight in the northern Austrian ...

The ship, sailing overnight from Vienna, pulled into Linz, Austria, Hitler’s favourite burg, and where he planned to retire, at 7:30 a.m. Four tour buses left the ship between 9 a.m. and 9:30.

Slowly, the Danube Tower, the tallest structure in Austria, rising over 800 feet above the land, came into view. In the distance were the spires of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, completed in 1578.

The Danube River Cruise: Vienna, Austria Tracy Robb Updated: October 23, 2022 - 2:49 PM Published: July 13, 2022 - 5:24 PM ...

Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police ...

Seventeen passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria, the apa news agency reported Saturday. Eleven of the injured ...