The story began in 2004 in Budapest when Azerbaijani national Ramil Sahib Safarov brutally killed his roommate Armenian Gurgen Margaryan with an axe. Both the murderer and the victim were military students participating in a NATO organized language course in the Hungarian capital. Safarov was sentenced of life imprisonment in […]
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On Margit Island, Budapest, more than 500 athletes did exercises together. The reason for this sports convention is easy to explain: the instructor’s name was Carl Lewis. The 51 years old, 9 times Olympian Champion arrived in Hungary to promote BudapestHalf Marathon, which will take place on 9 September. The […]
I bet, dear reader, you don’t know too much about the Hungarian songs or Hungarian pop music. No wonder. The country was isolated from the western world for decades, and our exotic language is not a big advantage from this point of view either. Nevertheless, Hungarian pop music has had […]
A 35-year-old Slovak lady caused an accident on the Hungarian motorway M3. Her BMW X5 luxury SUV bumped into a Fiat Punto, which got burned out. Three people died on the spot in the flames, one woman passenger passed away two days later in the hospital. The police have found […]
The biggest Central European lake Balaton is locally called “Hungarian Sea”, but at the moment it is definitely not a sea, because of its dramatic depth – which is only 3,2 meters on average. Especially the south shore is shallow, it is like a giant children’s pool, where you can […]
A massive group of 480 policemen, tax officers and other authorities cracked down on Ozora Festival in the Middle of Hungary. As a result of the raid, dozens of people were arrested mainly for dealing and possessing of drugs. The police seized a significant quantity of marihuana, mescalin, ecstasy and […]
What is it? Butterfly House is actually a kind of palm house where you can see a lot of tropical butterflies. Where is it? It is in Vienna, in the historic town centre, in a beautiful “art nouveau” building near the Opera. What they say about themselves: “As you walk […]
A month ago I wrote that Bruce Willis was Budapest shooting his new film called A Good Day to Die Hard. Well, according to the news he has not finished the movie yet, he is still in Budapest. In the photo, which was taken today, he is at Budapest Airport, […]
In some days’ time the biggest Hungarian festival Sziget will start. This year the event will take 8 days and nearly 400 thousand people are expected to arrive at the Danube island of the Hungarian capital city Budapest. Among the headliners there are acts such as Snoop Dogg, the Killers, […]
According to COED website Zsuzsanna Jakabos is „perhaps the most beautiful Olympian to grace the world stage, in the history of the world games”. A popular online magazine illustrates the statement with 84 photos, and, as the comments prove it, the readers agree with the opinion. The beautiful Hungarian swimmer […]