In a polarised world, Ramaphosa’s administration dodged some fatal bullets in the past five months that carried some hard long-term risks
Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?
Flanked by divided NATO allies, the US walks a tightrope over a potential third world war
Attempts to discredit election outcomes can be dangerous and the United States would do well to heed the warnings from history
The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis
Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers
A mix of tax increases and expenditure cuts are essential for long-term growth
Cheddar Man’s tribe migrated to Britain at the end of the last Ice Age and his DNA has been linked to individuals discovered in modern-day Spain
Change in governments’ policy sees a reduction in chaos as the flow of people to the EU continues.
The ‘patriotic’ culture war being waged by the government may force the closure of one of Hungary’s leading arts academies
Mark Webber has blamed his car’s Drag Reduction System for a lacklustre performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Nearly 300 Roma women and children fled their homes in Hungary as members of a far-right paramilitary group arrived for a three-day "training camp".
Australian Mark Webber took back the Formula One championship lead from Lewis Hamilton on Sunday after snatching victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
McLaren head into this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest looking to close the performance gap on Red Bull and Ferrari.
Injured Formula One driver Felipe Massa left a Hungarian hospital on Monday to return home to Brazil, a photographer witnessed.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton qualified fastest on Saturday and will start Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix in pole position.
Defending Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland is intent on staying cool this weekend at the normally steaming Hungaroring.
Hungary police evacuated thousands of people in Budapest on Tuesday where experts prepared to defuse a World War II bomb found on a construction site.
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/ 26 November 2007
Oil prices rose to near a barrel on Monday on signs of colder weather in the United States and Europe and the continued weakness of the dollar. The Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday marked the unofficial start of winter in the US. Among other areas, south-eastern New Mexico got up to 23cm of snow.
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/ 20 September 2007
Some do it blindfolded, others one-handed, and the best with the speed it takes the world’s fastest men to run 100m. In a celebration of some of the most nimble-fingered humans on the planet, more than 300 people from 32 nations will head to the Hungarian capital next month in a competition between the world masters of the Rubik’s cube.
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/ 20 September 2007
Oil prices kept rising on Thursday after reaching record highs in the previous session on United States refinery outages and declines in US oil inventories. A decline earlier in the day was reversed in part by worries over a potential tropical-storm threat to oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico, analysts said.
In a global effort to save amphibians from a deadly disease, zookeepers around the world want to turn 2008 into the ”Year of the Frog”. As many as 2 000 of the world’s 6 000 known amphibian species are in danger of extinction due to the spread of a parasite fungus called chytrid, which causes frogs to suffocate.
McLaren-Mercedes team chief Ron Dennis on Friday said he had restored order between his feuding drivers following clear-the-air talks in Istanbul. Dennis said: ”I’ve spoken to both of them independently and we were pretty clear. We run our team in a certain way and expect from every member of the team certain behaviours.”
Organisers of a kissing event in Budapest said on Monday they have earned a place in the <i>Guinness Book of Records</i> for the most number of couples locking lips at the same time. They said they would submit video footage and documentation showing 7 451 couples were locked in simultaneous buccal bonding for 10 seconds on Sunday.
A big question mark hung over Fernando Alonso’s McLaren future as tensions rose within the British team following a controversial Hungarian Grand Prix. McLaren chief Ron Dennis admitted that speculation is inevitable as Alonso and teammate Lewis Hamilton appear to have had a complete breakdown in their relationship.
McLaren team chief Ron Dennis was downcast and sad on Sunday despite seeing his brilliant young rookie driver Briton Lewis Hamilton claim a superb victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix. It was 22-year-old Hamilton’s third win of the season in his first year in Formula One and increased his lead in the title race to seven points
Double world champion Fernando Alonso seized pole position from McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday. Hamilton, who leads the Spaniard by two points with seven races remaining, completed an all-McLaren front row at a circuit where overtaking is extremely difficult.
The Formula One circus arrives in Budapest this weekend as the ”espionage” case between Ferrari and McLaren drags on and the title race really begins to hot up. Two weeks ago in Germany Fernando Alonso stole a dramatic victory for McLaren, executing a daring overtaking move on Ferrari’s Felipe Massa in the closing stages of the race.
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/ 20 December 2006
From the postman to the mayor, nearly everyone grows Christmas trees in the sleepy Hungarian hamlet of Surd in a long-held tradition that has guaranteed economic survival even in hard times. Local lore says that Surd, population 650, produces enough Christmas trees to supply half of the capital Budapest’s two million residents.
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/ 14 December 2006
From the postman to the mayor, nearly everyone grows Christmas trees in the sleepy Hungarian hamlet of Surd in a long-held tradition that has guaranteed economic survival, even in hard times. Local lore says that Surd, population 650, produces enough Christmas trees to supply half of the capital of Budapest’s two million residents.
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/ 24 October 2006
Budapest was calm on Tuesday after a day of anti-government protests in the capital in which about 130 people were injured when police used rubber bullets, teargas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators. Police arrested about 100 people from the crowds who set up barricades and attacked riot police late into the night.
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/ 23 October 2006
Hungarian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Monday to disperse anti-government protesters marching on Parliament on the 50th anniversary of the country’s uprising against Soviet rule. Local news agency MTI said several people had been injured in the clashes in central Budapest.