Veteran Viennese playboy Richard Lugner has branded Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan "a nutcase" after the actress told her Opera Ball host he had to arrange a private jet to bring her to Vienna.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and known for either being stalked or stalking the paparazzi, is announcing a run for California governor.

Günther Oettinger, Germany’s designated EU commissioner, is facing growing ridicule for his atrocious English thanks to a popular video on the internet. 

Illusionists Siegfried and Roy have retired for good, according to a published report. The reason is that Roy, who was mauled by a white tiger in 2003, hasn't fully recovered.

Tom Cruise shocked fans when he turned up on Salzburg’s most popular shopping street. He is in the city shooting the action comedy "Knight and Day."

California Governor and former action movie hero Arnold Schwarzenegger made a surprise stop-over in his homeland Austria, spent a few hours with friends and visited his mom's grave.

Who would imagine that an Austrian hairdresser who once owed a US hospital $20,000 after being hit by a drunken driver would emerge some day to sell his hair products business to Estée Lauder for $300 million?

Supermodel Heidi Klum has become a proud mum for the fourth time, giving birth to her first daughter with husband Seal, according to reports.

US border guards refused to allow German writer  Karl Dietrich Wolff enter the country on Thusday, but didn't explain why his visa had expired.  He was to have delivered a speech at Vassar College.

Michael Jackson called Hitler a genius – and thought he could cure the Nazi leader of his evil. The King of Pop, who died  in June, made the comments while talking to a rabbi in a previously unpublished interview.

An Austrian businessman has told how he escaped death on 9/11 after a morning meeting at the World Trade Center was called off the night before the terror attacks.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has finally acknowledged it -- his wife, Brazilian-German supermodel Gisele Bundchen, is pregnant and due in December.

Wimbledon legend Boris Becker and his wife are expecting a child.  Becker, 41, and his wife, model Sharlely "Lilly" Kerssenberg, 33, married June 12 in St. Moritz.

Hollywood star Robert Redford secretely married long-term girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg. The couple celebrated their wedding with around 30 family members at Hamburg's Louis C Jacob hotel last Saturday.

British-German philosopher Ralf Dahrendorf has died, the  Freiburg-based Badische Zeitung reported today. He was 80 years old. The press office of Laterza, Dahrendorf's publishing house in Italy, confirmed the report.  The philosopher had fallen ill in May.  

One of the most famous photographs by German-American Alfred Eisenstaedt showing a sailor kissing a young woman in 1945 is now hanging in Houston's Michael E. DeBakey Center. In a ceremony on Tuesday the center accepted the photo from Houstonian Glenn McDuffie.

Hollywood superstar Nicolas Cage has sold his 500-year-old fairytale castle - after spending just one night in the property located in the town where his mother came from.

Assassinated American President John F. Kennedy is reported to have fathered a secret love child with an Austrian woman linked to the Habsburg family, an Austrian Newspaper reported on Sunday.

Contrary to a report by a British tabloid, Farrah Fawcett did not say her final goodbyes to her loved ones before she headed to Germany for a last ditch medical treatment for her cancer.

German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg, a member of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put man on the moon, died in Huntsville, Alabama, aged 96, according to media reports.

If Germany’s popularity continues to rise, it may soon be forced to raise protectionist barriers to keep out all the tourists, businessmen and other seekers of greener pastures.

Outgoing US ambassador to Austria and Republican David Girard-diCarlo has raised eyebrows after letting slip he hopes Barack Obama goes the full distance and serves eight years as US president. His posting in Vienna lasted less than a year.

Physicist Albert Einstein, who was born German and died American has just been named the most significant Swiss of all time.

Christian Wölffer, the German-born owner of Wolffer Estate vineyard in Sagaponack, Long Island, was killed on New Year’s Eve while on vacation in South America, Brazilian media reported over the weekend.

Helmut Schmidt, a chain-smoking former German chancellor, celebrates his 90th birthday on Tuesday amid an improbable revival in popularity for a man with no-nonsense views.

Karl Habsburg Lothringen’s marriage to Francesca von Habsburg is over, Austrian newspaper Österreich reported.