Each night, volunteers pick up migrants stranded outside the gates of Austria's main asylum seeker facility and take them to a shelter where they can eat and sleep. As a national standoff over accommodation continues, the problem of homelessness looms large.
An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl named Leonie. Her dead body was found next to a tree in Vienna last year.
Workers in the village of St. Georgen started taking down 17 white tents housing dozens of migrants on the orders of Mayor Ferdinand Aigner. The move follows a standoff with the federal government over increasing numbers of asylum seekers in Austria.
Two men said to be people smugglers were taken into custody in Hungary on Monday following a car chase in which they opened fire on police. 21 migrants were found inside the suspects' van.
Austria has still not found a solution to a lack of accommodation for thousands of asylum seekers, after negotiations between the federal and state governments on Wednesday failed to reach an agreement.
Migrant rights groups have slammed Austria's decision to use temporary tents to shelter asylum seekers as winter approaches. Austrian authorities, however, said the country is facing a dire shortage of beds in government housing.
With the number of people fleeing to Germany this year set to exceed the 1.2 million who arrived in 2015-2016, the government is under growing pressure to avert a "refugee crisis".
Is the number of asylum applications in Austria increasing? The Austrian government keeps claiming that it is.
After reintroducing border checks, Central European leaders have been discussing further measures to block migrants who use their countries as transit routes to the rest of the EU.
Czech border police on Thursday fired warning shots in the air before detaining the driver of a van carrying 15 migrants. Czechia and Austria have re-introduced checks at their borders with Slovakia to combat a rise in unauthorized entries.
Austria is intensifying its crackdown on irregular immigration, launching a new campaign in a bid to deter potential migrants from countries including Morocco, Tunisia, India and Serbia.
One in four Austrians is an immigrant or has a migration background, a new survey from Statistics Austria has revealed. Germans make up the biggest group of foreign nationals in the country.