Yemen-born Dr. Abdulrahman Abdulrab Mohamed has been voted as the doctor of the year in Hungary. He is a pediatrician and a specialsit neonatologist at the Department of Pediatrics of the Pándy Kálmán Hospital in Gyula, SE Hungary.

A man armed with a Kalashnikov began shooting in the courthouse in the southern Hungarian town of Kiskunhalas this Wednesday morning. He reportedly wanted to go to the chief prosecutor's office to kill him but he was wrestled down by security guards.

Hungary's Sándor Liu Shaolin won the 500-meter event at the World Short Track Skating Championships in Seoul, South Korea this Saturday with his brother, Shaoang coming in third. Shaoang secured another medal for Hungary: a silver at 1,500 meters.

Two young Komodo dragons have arrived to the Sóstó Zoo in Nyíregyháza, NE Hungary from the Prague Zoo. Florian and Durian, both of them aged five years, replace the well-developed pair of Indri and Bagol that perished at the end of last year.

Rail traffic between Hungary and Croatia suspended months ago due to the flow of illegal migrants has been resumed in the spirit of the fact that the two countries have always regarded each other as good neighbours and important partners.

The Embassy of Sweden, Business Sweden, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and leading Swedish companies have inaugurated the Swedish Student Corner, an inspiring, creative space at the BME this week.

Hungary’s population decline accelerated in 2015 as the number of births rose less than in 2014 and the number of deaths increased after a decline in the previous year, according to a report this week by the Central Statistical Office.

Hungary's infamous burglar, Gizella Bodnár, widely nóknown to the Hungarian public as 'Airplane Gizi' has been caught again. the 89-year-old woman, who has had a criminal record since 1953, was spotted this time stealing from a family home SW of Budapest.

Teachers and pupils were wearing checkered shirts in schools all around Hungary, protesting against a recent slur at teachers by a former Hungarian government offical. In solidarity, well-known Hungarian personalities joined the protest.

United Nations independent expert Michel Forst has called on the Government of Hungary to refrain from stigmatising and intimidating human rights defenders, and ensure that they can conduct their work in an enabling legal and administrative environment.

On February 9 alone, a group of 24 people, identifying themselves as the citizens of Pakistan, India and Nepal, was caught in the Röszke area, near the city of Szeged, after they cut through the fence on the Serbo-Hungarian border and entered Hungary illegally.

17-year-old Hungarian chess hopeful Benjámin Gledura defeated former five-time world champion, but still active competitor, Viswanathan Anand at the 2016 Gibraltar Chess Festival, Europe's largest open chess event that anyone can enter.

According to an internal report by Hungary's National Public Health and Medical Officer Service, over half of Hungarians needing hospitalization are admitted to medical facilities that lack adequate means for their treatment, the daily Népszabadság reports.

The Smiling Hospital Foundation will have its main charity fundraising event, the annual "Grand Gala” in the Intercontinental Hotel in Budapest on Saturday, February 13. Proceeds will go towards helping the cheering of kids in hospitals.

Hungary is fully committed to the fight against anti-Semitism, and takes a zero tolerance stance against anti-Semitic manifestations, Hungarian state secretary Szabolcs Takács pointed out at the UN ceremony held in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.