At the 2016 World Championship in Spaghetti Bridge Building in Budapest, The winner in the Bridge category was the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca from Romania, while the Support category title went to the Technical University of Riga from Latvia.
Hungary has sent a third police contingent to help patrol the Greek-Macedonian border. According to the website of the national police force, the contingent consisting of 25 officers will mainly be carrying out border patrol tasks with their Macedonian colleagues.
Hungarian swimmers won ten gold, four silver and five bronze medals at the European Swimming Championship held in London this week. This achievement earned them the top position on the medal table ahead of host Great Britain and Italy.
Hungarian engineer Sándor Tarics, who won gold at the 1936 Olympics as member of the Hungarian water polo team, passed away in his home in Belvedere, California in the United States. He celebrated his 102th birthday last September.
A new shift of Hungarian soldiers have travelled to the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif from a Hungarian military base to replace the Hungarian contingent there. Their main task is to provide protection for Hungarian military advisors in the region.
Hungarian badminton player Laura Sárosi has qualified for the Summer Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this August. She gained fair play fame at the European championship this April when she loaned a pair of shoes to her German opponent.
Hungary's national ice hockey team defeated Belarus 5-2 at the men's world championship to score the first Hungarian victory in the top division since 1939. Hungary avoids relegation if it scores as many points against Germany as Belarus against France.
Busy Széll Kálmán Square has been renovated in the framework of a HUF 5.3 billion project. Online and print media reports suggest many of the project elements were extremely overpriced - something denied by the Center for Budapest Transport.
Hungarian chef Tamás Széll and his team have won the European final of Bocuse d’Or - the world’s most prestigious contest for chefs - that ended in Budapest this Wednesday. Norway came in second and Sweden third in the contest that began the day before.
Hungarian mountain climber Dávid Klein has returned to his native country this Monday. He is the first Hungarian to have reached the 8.091-meter high Annapurna peak in the Himalaya mountains without auxiliary oxygen and the help of sherpas.
Hungarian side Dunaújváros defeated Germany's TuS Metzingen 29-21 in the second leg of the final of the women's EHF Cup (the second most prestigious competition of the European Handball Federation), to win the trophy with an aggregate result of 55-49.
With 100 days left till the opening of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Chain Bridge in Budapest was illuminated in the colors of the Brazilian flag. The opening ceremony will take place in the Maracanã Stadium on 5 August 2016.
A UNESCO committee will investigate whether or not a planned 100 sqm balcony being built to the Karmelita Monastery in the Buda Castle is according to the permission given by UNESCO to the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office.
Thousands of cyclists gathered to ride through downtown Budapest this Saturday afternoon at the intitiative of the Hungarian Cyclists' Club, calling for the popularization of cycling traffic in cities and further improvements for bicycle riders.
The Visegrád Group countries will draft a joint proposal for the European Commission against fraud in the digital economy, Hungarian Economy Minister Mihály Varga said after a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Amsterdam on Friday.
