Hungary, in the heart of Eastern Europe, is one of the ‘new Europe’ states that will be in the centre of the news in British media for quite some time, thanks to the recent blunder of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The “Bigot-gate” scandal broke when a BBC microphone caught the British PM making sarcastic [...]
International media have guessed their way through the recent general elections, concerning Fidesz’s intentions upon achieving two thirds of constituents – a threshold that allegedly empowers a government to enact the deepest reforms democratically possible. However, according to Budapest-based think tank Perspective Institute, Fidesz’s ‘two-thirds policy aims’ are clear. In a recent press release, the [...]
No party has, since the change of regime in Hungary, managed to rake-in the votes to form government alone, without coalition. This time though, Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union has gained support that enables it to do that and more. Winning 54 constituencies out of 57 in the second round on Sunday (at 90.83 percent [...]
He is about to be expelled from his high school for record absence, but 17-year-old Muscovite Andrey Ternovskiy goes about town with a mysterious smile – he’s about to become a millionaire if not the next Bill Gates. The boy student is the creator of an internet-based social networking site called Chatroulette, where participants can [...]
Fashion house Calvin Klein has pledged to drop its starving teenager image and switch to the more built middle age ladies’ image, according to reports citing Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa. The size ‘0’models will allegedly be stepping aside on the catwalk, giving way to at least size ‘4’ peers. The ‘fatter’ Dutch supermodel [...]
The big screen’s former teen-queen Lindsay Lohan (23) has been sacked from her role as an alleged “artistic designer” for French fashion House of Haute Couture ‘Ungaro’, which was as a matter of fact founded by Emanuel Ungaro, of ethnic Hungarian origin, based on international media reports. Lohan had been given the role in 2009 [...]
Since Henry VIII many Britons prefer to see the Catholic Pope on the end of a hemp rope, and we’re not talking about the Swedish chocolate coated cake delicacy. This hasn’t changed much according to a recent email (reportedly drafted in March) that almost caused the Vatican to declare spiritual warfare on NATO, of which [...]
Hungarian teenager Ferenc Vizi is a look alike for Twilight’s Edward (Robert Pattinson) according to mother Gail Vizi. She says he has been stopped several occasions to be told so. “It makes him so embarrassed,” she said. One look alike in the family is enough for any mother, but she has two. Her other son [...]
“Please say it’s not true!,” is probably what millions of fans are pleading as their adoration for Robert Pattinson and his no-secret girlfriend Kristen Stewart is at an all-time high. Pattinson has become just about every teenager girl’s dream-bloke, but rumors, whispering that the Twilight hottie is head over heals about his longtime male friend [...]
Shrek the friendly ogre (based on the children’s book by William Steig) has Hungarian descendants, according to literature reports. The word ogre allegedly comes from the old German language word Ungre, referring to the plundering Huns (or Hungarians) led by their bloodthirsty chieftain Attila the Hun. Mothers of yore would scare their children saying ïf [...]
The world is in vampire fever, thanks to the role of British model, musician and actor Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, inspired by the novels by Stephanie Meyers. However, few teenagers bitten by the epic, know that the first “Pattinson” was actually Hungarian. In the twilight of Hollywood filmmaking, the [...]
Budapest is the concept used on the cover of American author Frank E. Peretti’s fiction novel ‘This Present Darkness’, with over 2-mil copies in print. The first print edition in Hungarian (translated by Tibor Lukacs) has been sold out for quite some time in Hungary, now also a collectible. The cover picture depicts the statue [...]
South Africa is in a state of pandemonium joy with only 50 days left for 2010 Football World Cup. Schools will be closed down for the duration of the tournament. Official celebrations in Kimberly have launched and organizers said that they have all engines running and are “more than ready.” The number of people expected [...]
Building on the highly successful State Partnership Program between Hungary and the State of Ohio, the Hungarian Ministry of Defense and the Hungarian Air Forces have invited the Ohio Air National Guard to participate in the upcoming Load Diffuser 2010 exercise at Kecskemet Air Base, Hungary. Eight F-16s from the 178th Fighter Wing in Springfield, [...]
Daily broadsheet newspaper The Washington Times on Monday reported an an alleged history of extensive business connections between U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis and U.S. House Speaker Nanci Pelosi, who the paper suggested had assisted Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis to become ambassador. Since 1991, Pelosi’s husband’s real estate partnership investments with Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis’ father have netted him between [...]
Eating out has never been so healthy. Australian billionaires have launched an all-new eating concept low in carbs, that is “low carbon footprint food.” On April 17, 2010 the first such restaurants were opened in New York City, under the brand name ‘Otarian’. Another two restaurants are due to soon open in June in London, [...]
International artists and members of the home brew have been selected to perform the official 2010 Football World Cup song. Latin Americans singer Shakira and South Africa’s group Freshly Ground have been requested to compose a song called Time for Africa. The expected new hit song should be released via radio stations worldwide within a [...]
Thirty years isn’t much in a country’s history, but it certainly is half the lifetime for most Zimbabweans. It has been 30 years since Zimbabwean blacks won independence from white rule. The country’s president Robert Mugabe today celebrated 30 years of the country’s independence, amid organized supporters and kids in military uniform. For more than [...]
Oscar winner actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly hounding her Golden Globe-winner co-star Johnny Depp on and off the set during the filming of The Tourist, a new drama-thriller film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, due to hit the big screen in 2011. According to People magazine Jolie has ‘approached’ Depp in several ways and [...]
Hungarian fans of Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Bulter have expressed their joy in Budapest on April 19, over the news that Aniston has agreed to launch her “own” perfume this year. Budapest fans also welcomed the couple’s whirlwind tour of Europe to attend the premiers of their new movie The Bounty Hunter. After months of [...]
Budapest Airport is back to normal operations since 12.05 hours local time, though this does not mean that all scheduled fligths could depart or arrive on schedule. The first flight to leave Budapest Airport was Travel Service flight to Hurghada (Egypt) at 14.24 local time soon to be followed by WizzAir Gothenburg service. Malév can [...]
Twilight heart throb Robert Pattinson is due to return to the Hungarian capital city in May with his Twilight sweetheart Kristen Stewart, according to a hotel executive in Budapest. He said that Pattinson plans to celebrate his 24th birthday in Budapest, after experiencing the romantic weekend celebrating the alleged engagement and birthday of Kristen Stewart [...]
The Hungarian flag in front of the Parliament on Kossuth square flew half-staff on Saturday, accompanied by the playing of the national anthem during the Government’s ceremony mourning Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s tragic death on April 10. Dignitaries including President Laszlo Solyom, outgoing PM Gordon Bajnai, Speaker of the House Bela Katona layed wreaths at [...]
Directorate for Air Transport of National Transport Authority ordered this evening from 19.00 to 19.00 on Saturday a full closure of airspace in Hungary. Accordingly, from tonight 19.00 in the following 24 hours neither departing, nor arriving flights are expected – but the airport will be open. We advise passengers who were due to fly [...]
South Africa, the host nation of FIFA Football World Cup 2010, is launching a whole new dance ton inspire football fans. Dance trainers said that they expect fans to be influenced by the so-called ‘Diski’ dance, just as much as they have been influenced by the ‘Mexican wave. A troop of dancers is touring South [...]
Four South African United Nations’ peace keepers have been kidnapped in Sudan, according to UN reports. The Darfur group known as the “People’s Movement for Democratic Struggle” claiming to be the kidnappers and demanded a ransom to the equivalent of USD 450,000 in local currency. The four peace keepers were last seen leaving their base [...]
Brazil, India and the Republic of South Africa have jointly agreed to develop and launch a new satellite into space. They believe that the satellite will benefit the three nations as it detects natural disasters, studies climate and is utilized for various kinds of scientific research. The agreement was formally announced at what was dubbed [...]
Rescue workers at China’s recent earthquake (first announced at 6.9 magnitude, but later changed to 7.1) believe that the number of people who died could reach 1,000. There are currently 791 dead and almost 300 presumed missing as rescue teams in Qinghai province worked around the clock in their attempt to push on their search [...]
The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto may have involved members of her own government as it was allegedly avoidable, according to the findings of the United Nations Fact Finding Commission. She died in a gun and suicide bomb attack in Dec 2007. Heraldo Munoz, Ambassador leading the UN Commission, said that the [...]
An increasing number of international long haul flights have been grounded to the increasing spread of volcanic ash originating in Iceland. The busiest airports of Europe have been turned into an absolute “no-fly-zone” except for emergency, national security and scientific purposes. Icelandic scientists and experts, on board a reconnaissance airplane, managed to get close enough [...]
South Africa’s First National Bank FNB, the chief sponsor responsible for the international football body’s (FIFA) ticket sales in the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, says that its online specialist are working around the clock to “ensure smoother ticket sales” to the South African public on Friday (April 16, 2010). On [...]
Hundreds and thousands of underpaid municipal workers are engaging in the fifth day of strikes to demand better working conditions, accessories and payment for their efforts, according to municipal strike leaders. The announced strike erupted on Monday (April 12, 2010) and started peacefully in most areas, with participants dancing and demonstrating giant posters demanding their [...]
International airlines catering to the world’s busiest airport London Heathrow (UK) have expressed have stopped flights amid concerns of accumulating clouds of volcanic ash arriving from Wednesday’s (April 14, 2010) volcanic eruption in Iceland. Currently only lots of emotions are flying high at the British capital as the ash is affecting air traffic throughout Europe. [...]
America’s legendary talk show host Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on Nov 19, 1933) has dumped his 8th wife after 13 years of marriage, according to Los Angeles radio news reports. The 76-year-old son of a Brooklyn restaurateur has filed for divorce (on April 14) from his 53-year-old former singer and television host Shawn [...]
Nearly a million die-hard football fans stormed ticket centres throughout South Africa after it was announced that the last 500,000 seats for the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup would go on sale only for members of the public of the host nation. South African soccer fans braved the cold over-night standing in kilometer long lines [...]
The national guard is on standby in Iceland, as thousands of people have been warned and at least 800 residents have been evacuated from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier region due the second eruption of a volcano that has been dormant for some 200 years underneath the glacier. Emergency experts said that flowing larva has caused melted [...]
Millions of Poles worldwide are mourning the death of their First Lady Maria Kaczynska (Aug 21, 1942 – April 10, 2010), wife of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski (June 18, 1949 – April 10, 2010). Her body was recently returned from Russia with military ceremony. The presidential couple led a delegation who lost their [...]
An earthquake – measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale – struck China in the early hours of April 14, 2010. The thee after-shocks of magnitudes of as much as 5.8 also rattled the highland mountainous region of Tibet. The epicenter of the quake is said to be the mountainous plateau separating the Tibetan Yushu county [...]
The South African Government has issued a warning to tourists visiting Mozambique. The Department of International Relations (alias the Foreign Ministry) confirmed reports that several families had been ‘hijacked’, tied up and robbed of their valuable and possessions in the tourist frequented parts of Southern Mozambique. South Africa’s high commissioner to Mozambique has contacted the [...]
Anglican bishop Maru Walter, the one-time fullback New Zealand’s indigenous Maori rugby team, has publicly announced that a test match he played in against the South African Springbok side had allegedly been rigged. The final score was Maori – South Africa 0-37. The surprise announcement comes more than 50 years after the questionable game, played [...]
The lawyers of the two suspects (aged 15 and 27) charged with the murder of South African AWB white supremacist party leader Eugene Terre’Blanche had tried to get his defendants drunk before having sex with one or both of them. They then allegedly murdered the Afrikaaner leader on his bed on April 3. Police would [...]
The second (supplementary) round of the Hungarian general election is likely to bring a two-thirds majority for the winning center-right party Fidesz, according to analysts, which could give Viktor Orban’s (pictured) party the power to alter the Hungarian constitution and enact the deepest economic reforms. Claiming 52.76 percent of votes in the first round on [...]
Angry members of community recently set fire to the house of a witch-doctor (Sangoma) in the area of Soshanguve area, outside the capital city Pretoria, because he was accused of being involved in the so-called ‘muti murder’ (where human body parts are used for magic purposes) of a minor. nine-year-old Masego Kgomo went mission on [...]
Law-bringers and decision makers are about to face another civil issue in months to come, as the age of 18-19 is still too young to for certain licenses like drinking alcohol, driving vehicles, joining various organizations, clubs. However they are not too young to be sent forward into battle in live combat. Almost 25 years [...]
The living conditions of an increasing number of white South Africans have slipped below the poverty line, sociologists said. They added that it is no longer the case that only blacks are impoverished and only whites are millionaires. President Jacob Zuma has promised millions of impoverished South Africans that he is working on their case. [...]
Political analysts are questioning why unity has not yet taken place in the new Republic of South Africa. As a young democracy (merely 16 years old) the majority of the nation seems to be working towards a national unity for a so-called “rainbow nation”, but there are still ample implications of hate speech, racism, corruption [...]
The long awaited public disciplinary action of the African National Congress (ANC) youth leader Julius Malema has finally taken place, political experts said. Jacob Zuma, President of the South African Republic, has verbally publicly slagged his party’s young protégé adding that Malema’s behavior is no longer acceptable. However he did not demand that the youth [...]
It is the first time in the history of the Methodist Church of South Africa (MCSA) that it is being dragged to court by one of its preachers – on grounds of discrimination as the MCSA suspended her after she entered into a homosexual marriage. Rev. Ecclesia de Lange (pictured) says she is now fighting [...]
South Africa’s anonymous criminal hotline ‘Crime Line’ has allegedly led some 1,000 arrest in three months. Law authorities have arrested criminals confiscated assets and drugs amounting to several millions of Rands (ZAR). Police have cracked down on robbers and recovered dozens of stolen vehicles and luxury goods. Just recently the Pretoria drug unit cracked down [...]
South African is divided over the Jan 11 – April 11, 2010 midnight Gun Amnesty, as citizens believe there is strong government corruption in the South African Police Services (SAPS; note: SAPS is a “service” and no longer a “force” – Editor!). Citizens said they believe that the SAPS and the South African Defence Force [...]
It looks like Hungary is going back to conservative values and not settling for eight years of un-kept social-liberal promises in the latest general elections, political analysts said on April 11, 2010, waiting for preliminary results to arrive. However, these may be postponed until late in the evening, due to a decision by the National [...]
The Hungarian Republic has sent telegrams and messages of their condolences to Poland after the country’s delegation led by President Lech Kaczynski (50) died in an airplane crash on April 10, 2010. An emergency cabinet has convened as senior members of government were also on board. The delegation was en route to Russia to commemorate [...]
The family of Eugene Terre’Blanche (pictured top left) has announced that they are relieved that he has finally been laid to rest on his farm 10 km outside South africa’s Western province town of Ventersdorp. The white Afrikaaner farmer and leader of South Africa’s fascist movement AWB, was murdered by allegedly two black farm workers,on [...]
South Africa’s National Press Club (NPC) has turned to President Jacob Zuma with a complaint about ANC youth chairman Julius Malema’s bizerk behavior against BBC journalist Jonah Fisher on April 8, 2010. Editors and journalists said that the kindergarten king had “gone too far this time”and discussed how they would continue to handle the situation [...]
A South African woman (Known only as Linden, 35), arrested for drug smuggling, has been sentenced to death in China, according to the International Relations and Cooperations Ministry (IPCM) on April 9, 2010. She was arrested at an airport in China in 2008 and is accused of possessing more than 3 kg of crystal methamphetamine. [...]
ANC Youth League chairman Julius Malema said he fully supports the policies of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PFP party. He had been on a four-day official visit to Mugabe’s proverty stricken man-made paradise over the Easter long weekend. He said that he had learned “lots” about how a country can be run [...]
Czech-born tennis star Martini Navratilova (53) has revealed that she has a malicious form of breast cancer. She made the announcement during a television interview in the US, calling it her own ‘9/11’. The lady champ has expressed her will to fight the illness even though she is devastated. She was allegedly diagnosed with malicious [...]
Returning from ‘Uncle Bob’s farm’ ANC youth leader Julius Malema adopted his uncle’s attitude, insulting journalists. At a press conference Malema picked on BBC correspondent Jonah Fisher, who remarked his speech. Malema was enough to give anyone indigestion with slick words criticizing the Zimbabwe (the former Rhodesia) opposition party (Movement for Democratic Change), arguing they [...]
According to a survey, the majority of South African citizens are against their government borrowing a USD 3.25-bil (ZAR 28-bil) loan from the World Bank to finish the outstanding 25% of the new 4,800 MW (6x800MW) Medupi power plant (the biggest of its kind in the southern hemisphere of its financially troubled power generating and [...]
Seasoned Afrikaaner Andre Visagie, secretary general of the white ultranationalist group AWB, threw a major tantrum when he was continuously interrupted by his opponent, black political analyst Lebohang Pheko. The two guests were invited to express their political views on South African television. In the heat of the moment Visagie tore off his hidden microphone. [...]
South Africa’s right wing nationalist group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) Tuesday (April 6, 2010) demanded a “piece of land” for its people to govern and call their own homeland within South Africa. Pieter Steyn, Spokesman for AWB told journalists in the northwestern province town of Ventersdorp said, “We want a piece of land in South Africa [...]
South Africa’s Deputy health minister Molefi Sefularo (53) died in a car accident on the N4 motorway just west of the capital city Pretoria on Sunday. Sefularo was appointed deputy minister in May 2009. Police have confirmed that Sefularo had been in a Black Lexus when he allegedly hit a highway barrier near Lotus Gardens [...]
A very nervous south African president, Jacob Zuma (pictured second row far right), went before the nation after a lengthy wait, in his attempt to calm the nation, which was shocked by the brutal murder (pictured top row far left and middle) of Eugene Terre’Blanche a prominent white farmer and leader of the radical Boer [...]
Hardly more than a fortnight before his 38th birthday (April 29) spokesman for former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, David Daroczi, committed suicide in Budapest (on the night of Apr 2), said, police, who added that his death has contributed to the fact that Hungary remains one of the world leaders in suicides. Daroczi was [...]
The US Government has called for calm while thousands of Hungarians have contacted their Consulates in the US requesting information about loved ones and relatives living in Southern California, following the April 4 earthquake. Unconfirmed reports say that there are at least 2,000 Hungarians or people of Hungarian origin living in the area. The latest [...]
The fact that than 300,000 white extremist South Africans have sworn to avenge the bloody massacre of their radical leader could lead to the bloodiest civil war in African history, according to local news reports. Eugene Terre’Blanche (65), also dubbed ‘ET’, was the leader of South Africa’s ultra-right wing group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB, which he [...]
Swedish Researchers have revealed that new evidence from Russian archives suggests that a Swedish diplomat credited with rescuing thousands of Jewish Hungarians from the Holocaust was still alive following the alleged Soviet reports of death in a Siberian gulag. Wallenberg, who set up safe houses and issued several hundreds of false Swedish documents to Jewish [...]
Twilight Vamp and British actor Robert Pattinson is currently in the goulash capital filming his latest cellulose, ‘Bel Ami’ (due to hit cinemas in mid 2011), based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant. The film is on location in Budapest’s Andrassy ut, which has been used by several film directors due to its resemblance [...]
