The Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) celebrates the 120th anniversary of its establishment on December 19th this year. On this occasion, a gala evening took place in the Hungarian Opera House with the participation of IOC President Thomas Bach.

Hungary, drawn from pot 3, will play in Group F against Portugal, Austria and Iceland at the European Football (soccer) Championships in France in the summer of 2016, according the results of the draw that took place in Paris this Saturday.

Sporting Kansas City forward Krisztián Németh won the 2015 AT&T Goal of the Year award in the Major League Soccer (MLS), the United States football (soccer) championship. Just two moths ago, he was was named his club's best newcomer this season.

An investigation of Hungary’s central tobacco distributing company by the European Commission takes more time than it was originally expected, but it is not by chance the EU executive is taking its time to look into the matter, portfolio.hu quotes a local paper.

Thousands of people have gathered in the Hungarian capital this Sunday for the demonstration 'Climate March Budapest' ahead of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change held in Paris between November 30 and December 11.

The City Park Ice Rink, the largest public ice rink in Europe opened its gates for the new winter season in Budapest this Wednesday. Originally opened in 1870, and reopened after renovation in December 2011, the rink offers 12 thousand square metres of ice surface.

This past week-end saw the first snow of the season on higher-lying areas of Hungary as temperatures dropping following an unseasonable mild weather lasting for the past few weeks. However, the 5-10-centimeter snow is not suitable for skiing.

It can never be too early. The eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen had its Christmas tree set up on Kossuth square this Friday. As the Hungarian news agency MTI reports, the 16-meter tall pine tree was offered to the city by a private individual.

Two British nationals convicted earlier for supporting terrorism, Abu Izzadeen (born as Trevor Brooks), and Simon Jonathan Keeler were detained by Hungarian police at Lõkösháza border crossing point on Sunday when discovered on a train heading for Romania.

The Hungarian Constitutional Court on Tuesday annulled parts of a law that required commercial banks to pay billions of forints to bail out clients of failed brokerage Quaestor, the financial website portfolio.hu quotes the country's state news agency.

The Hungarian national football side has qualified for the 2016 European championship of 32 teams in France by defeating Norway 2-1 at the Hungarian leg of the playoff against Norway this Sunday. The first leg in Norway was also won by Hungary (1-0).

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The B2B MICE Workshop will be organized for the first time in Budapest in an exclusive venue, the brand new Groupama Arena, on the 1st of December.

A plaque commemorating the 1960 Champions Cup final between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt and the top scorer of the match, Hungary's Ferenc Puskás, was unveiled at the Scottish National Football Museum at Hampden in Glasgow, Scotland.

'MegaLux', a solar-powered car developed at the College of Kecskemét in east-central Hungary, finished 7th in the World Solar Challenge competition of over 3,000 kilometers across the Australian desert from Darwin in the north to Adelaide in the south.