Hungarian skipper Nándor Fa finished 8th with his 'Spirit of Hungary' boat in the Vendée Globe round-the-world solo yacht race, arriving in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France with a time of 93 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes and 9 seconds.
Hungarian skipper Nándor Fa finished 8th with his 'Spirit of Hungary' boat in the Vendée Globe round-the-world solo yacht race, arriving in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France with a time of 93 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes and 9 seconds.
Hungary is sending new contingents of police to Serbia and Macedonia. This is the tenth time that Hungary is sending police units to Macedonia, and the fourth time to Serbia. So far, 385 Hungarian police officers have served along the Balkan migration route.
16-year-old Hungarian Zsombor Piros came from a set down to capture his first junior Grand Slam title, fighting from a set down to defeat Israeli Yshai Oliel 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
16 people, most of them grammar school students from Budapest, have died in a bus accident on the motorway near Verona, Italy Friday night. The bus first hit the motorway barrier and crashed into the pillar of a flyover, followed by a fire on board.
The southern Hungarian city of Pécs has been chosen as one of the 16 recepients of the UNESCO Learning City Award 2017 and thus to become the first Hungarian city to receive this recognition, the international organization has announced.
Hungary's Sándor Shaolin Liu won the 1,000-meter event at the European Short Track Championship in Torino, Italy. He also finished second at the 3,000-meter superfinal while other members of the Hungarian team won another five silver medals.
Three-time Rio Olympics champion swimmer Katinka Hosszú and saber fencer Áron Szilágyi, also an Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro last year have been elected Hungary’s 'Athletes of the Year 2016' by the country’s sports journalists.
Minus 28.1 degrees Celsius (that is, minus 18.58 degrees Fahrenheit) was measured at dawn in the village of Tésa - a new cold record. The previous one, minus 26.5 degrees Celsius was measured 32 years ago in nearby Romhány.
According to an internet survey conducted by the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME), the Bird of the Year in Hungary in 2017 is the European Goldfinch (scientific name: Carduelis carduelis).
70 cars are serving subscribers of the GreenGo e-carsharing service on the streets of Budapest. Cars can be booked through a mobile application and they can be left anywhere withing the service area after the end of the trip.
Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú was voted the third best European athlete of the year in a survey involving 27 European news agencies. She finished behind Real Madrid's Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and British tennis player Andy Murray.
A commemorative stamp has been issued following the Budapest Water Summit 2016. The stamp, designed by Anita Laczkó, is of 30×40 millimeters and is complemented with an orderly inscription arranged on a wave line.
Similarly to last year, a specially decorated 'Santa’s trolleybus' is circulating until Christmas on various trolley lines in the Hungarian capital. ,Kids can travel together with Santa Claus and give him presents that will be forwarded to families in need by Santa’s Factory.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszú was named as the female Swimmer of the Year at the FINA/Alisports World Aquatics Gala held in Windsor, Canada this Sunday. She won three gold medals and a silver at the Summer Olympics in Rio earlier this year.
Cherishing a tradition, a pine tree was erected as the Christmas Tree of the Country in front of the building of Hungarian Parliament this Friday. The 4.5-ton silver fir of about 20 meters in height was cut down in Sárszentmihály, Fejér County.
