Austria's Elections Show Shift Away From Grand Coalition

Austrians hit the polls on Sunday to vote in the parliamentary elections.

Both the Social Democrats and the Austrian People's Party both showed their weakest takes since the return of democracy in 1945.

They will now, more than ever, need the grand coalition they have with each other.

Combined they now have ninety-nine of the one hundred and eighty-three seats, a slight majority.

All four of the other parties gained seats, showing unexpected strength.

The biggest surprise was NEOS, which in their first election took nine seats.

Analysts believe that the results show a dissatisfaction with the grand coalition's governing, not just growing like for the other parties.

49 Killed in Iraq's Sunday Violence

Forty-nine people were killed in bombings and shootings in Iraq, on Sunday.

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque. It happened during a funeral in al-Musayyib, killing twenty-five and injuring forty.

In Baqouba, a Sunni mosque was bombed killing five and wounding seventeen. Gunmen attacked a Sahwa checkpoint leaving one dead and three injured.

Gunmen in Dora assassinated an Electric Ministry employee.

Five people were killed and fourteen were wounded by a car bombing in Hussainya's market.

In Idrib, six soldiers were killed and thirty people were wounded in a dual blast. A suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a military checkpoint. As rescuers gathered, a second bomber, in an ambulance, set his charges off as he reached the scene. Gunmen then attacked the scene, beginning a fire fight with security officials that left three militants dead.

Violence in the country continues to increase as both Sunnis and Shiites attack each other.

The Syrian civil war has only encouraged the centuries old hostilities between the two groups.

Car Bomb Kills 41 in Pakistan

Forty-one people were killed when a car bomb tore through the Qissa Khawani Bazaar, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Sunday's explosion left more than one hundred people injured.

Dozens of shops were damaged or destroyed in the centuries old market.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and the Taliban has denied involvement.

It is the third major bombing that Peshawar has seen over the last week.