The Roma (gypsy) population and their place in society are the main themes of an exhibition of pictures by four Hungarian Roma women painters that opened in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Tuesday evening.

Six new hotels (including three-, four- and five-star hotels and an apartment hotel) with 400 rooms are due to be inaugurated in Budapest this year, real estate consultant Colliers International announced on Wednesday.

American Airlines and Malev will launch a daily direct Budapest-New York flight on April 6, the vice president for the region at the American air carrier, Kurt Stache announced at a press conderence in Budapest on Tuesday.

"Airplane Gizi", a veteran female thief in her 85th year, has been caught again, in Bicske, west of Budapest. She received her nickname in the 1950s for utilizing the then exisitng domestic flights in Hungary for burglaries nationwide.

In his annual state-of-the-nation address, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday that Hungary has embarked on a process of renewal, and each year up to 2014 will be a staging post towards sustained growth.

Most Hungarians in Egypt have left the country by now, the embassy is not aware of any Hungarian citizens gotten into trouble in connection with the violent anti-government riots there, Ambassador Péter Kveck said on Friday.

A Hungarian culinary week is being held at the European Parliament in currently, featuring traditional Hungarian dishes, such as pea soup, 'székelykáposzta' (sauerkraut stew) and 'Somlói galuska' (Somló spnge cake).

Some would say mass manufacturing was born in Hungary, for if was József Galamb who not only created Ford's Model T, or "Tin Lizzie" but was elemental in introducing the conveyor belt to production lines. Galamb was born 130 years ago.

As with all origin legends, this is the truth about the conveyor belt, the mass manifacturing and Tin Lizzie. All in all, the flagship innovations of the modern time civilization derive from of one single basis: they all have Hungarian origin. Yesterday was the 130th birth anniversary of the father of these innovations.

Influenza is gripping Hungary. So far, nine people have died as a result of flu-related complications. More and more hospitals have banned visits due to contraction fears. Three of the victims had contracted influenza B.

How Europe is being thought of in Hungary and how Europeans are seen through the eyes of a Russian artist. This is the theme of a unique photo exhibition opened at the Ministry of National Resources in Budapest.

The European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Olli Rehn has contacted the Hungarian government in writing, asking for a list of planned reform steps, the Hungarian business daily Világgazdaság said on Tuesday.

About 3.3 percent of just over three million members in Hungary's mandatory private pension funds have opted to stay in the private system, according to the National Pensions Directorate. The total number of those who have chosen to stay is 102,019.

Ferenc Szõnyi is the fifth man in the world to have completed the double deca ironman competition: 76 kms of swimming, 3,600 kms cycling and 844 kms running. it took him 481 hours, 54 minutes and 10 seconds to finish this race.

European Union foreign ministers on Monday discussed how to finance infrastructure needed for joining up the bloc's energy networks to form a single energy market. The meeting was chaired by Hungarian foreign minister János Martonyi.