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 [...]
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