A strike shut down much of public transport in Budapest Tuesday, triggering major traffic jams around the city, and looks set to continue ...
Thieves on Thursday stole a laptop computer from Hungarian conductor Zoltan Kocsis containing his version of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished opera "Moses und Aron", ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - Their spluttering engines, bone-rattling suspensions and outdated designs once ruled the streets behind the Iron Curtain. But now the Trabant and its communist cousins have become rare cars for collectors. Soviet-made Ladas, the classic rear-engine Czech Skodas, Romanian ...
Australia OKs extradition to Hungary of man accused of war crimes as Nazi collaborator The Australian government on Thursday approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator accused by Hungary of a World War II killing. Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said ...
Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic speaks during the opening session of the Fourth World Science Forum, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. During the three -day long forum, titled "Knowledge and Future", participating scientists mark ...
Magyar gastronomy, known around the world for its goulash, never had the standing Hungarians believed it deserved, but young chefs trained abroad are starting to change that. "There is a huge gap between the picture we have of our 'world famous' and ...
Famously binge-drinking Britons booze even more on holiday, consuming the equivalent of eight pints of beer a day while sunning themselves or otherwise relaxing abroad, a study said Friday. And as they return home after the summer break, the government is urging ...
Guy von Dardel, a particle physicist who sought for years to find his half-brother Raoul Wallenberg in Soviet imprisonment, died Friday at his home in Geneva. He was 90. Von Dardel never accepted Soviet authorities' claims that Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who ...
Brazilian Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa expressed his gratitude Monday to Budapest's AEK hospital, which treated him after a horror accident at the Hungarian Grand Prix last month. "I am convinced that the speed and the quality of the treatment I received ...
Hungarian customs said Monday they had arrested a Nigerian woman with almost one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cocaine and amphetamines in her stomach at Budapest's Ferihegy airport. "The 26-year-old woman tried to smuggle the swallowed drugs to Hungary," custom guards spokesman Jeno ...
Formula One driver Felipe Massa arrived in his native Brazil late Monday, flying in from Hungary where he had surgery for serious head injuries sustained in a June 25 racing accident. The 28-year-old landed at Sao Paulo airport on a private jet ...
Formula One driver Felipe Massa arrived in his native Brazil late Monday, flying in from Hungary where he had surgery for serious head injuries sustained in a June 25 racing accident. The 28-year-old landed at Sao Paulo airport on a private jet ...
