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Police seize 85 weapons from a warehouse in Budapest

Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo has won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story "Hitting Budapest."

A Hungarian court Monday acquitted one of the world's most wanted Nazi war suspects, saying there was not enough evidence to convict him of slaughtering three dozen people during World War II.

Fifty-five years ago, freedom reigned for a brief moment in Communist Hungary. On October 23, 1956, student protesters marched through the streets of Budapest demanding an immediate end to their Soviet-dominated government.

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One of the world's most wanted Nazi war suspects, Sandor Kepiro, 97, went on trial Thursday in Hungary charged with the slayings of 36 Jews and Serbs in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942.

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The couple pamper Pax and Zahara with historic thermal baths - and McDonalds

The actress shoots her directorial debut in Hungary with Oscar-winning producer Graham King

The family are staying in Budapest while Jolie works on her directorial debut

Rescue workers searched Wednesday for six elderly people missing at Kolontar, one of three villages in southwest Hungary that was hit Monday by a wave of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant reservoir that burst.

Jolie-Pitt clan, sans Brad, has moved to Budapest where Angelina is working on her directorial debut

When Charity Tillemann-Dick was 4, her parents took her to her first opera.

In Budapest, Hungary's vibrant capital, you can sample spicy paprika at the Great Market Hall (designed by Gustave Eiffel), sip coffee in a genteel turn-of-the-20th-century cafe and enjoy an affordable performance at the luxurious Opera House.

From the Czech Republic to Greece, the eastern part of Europe is changing so fast that you could visit every year and feel as if you've experienced something completely new.

A principal and teacher were killed Wednesday when a masked gunman opened fire in a private elementary school in Budapest, Hungary's capital city, police said.

A local passenger train ran into the back of an long-distance train Monday near Budapest, killing four people and injuring 26

Oil prices rebounded Tuesday, jumping back above $114 barrel after the dollar weakened against the euro and a rally in heating oil pulled new buyers into energy markets

Oil prices were little changed near $119 a barrel Wednesday ahead of a key government report on U.S. energy stockpiles that could offer further proof of declining demand

Oil prices edged modestly higher Friday as news of an output cut in Nigeria helped to halt, at least temporarily, the week's sharp decline in prices

Researchers believe Moscow has not come clean on the fate of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust before his arrest by the Red Army

Randy Simor's entrepreneurial savvy was severely tested when police and anti-government protesters in Budapest skirmished during celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. As the CEO of Meditours Hungary, a Budapest-based business offering Americans and Europeans access to Hungarian medical care, he had five clients in the city that day.

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Forget lists of "What's Next" in travel. Eastern Europe is "What's Now." While it's catching up to the West -- becoming more modern, expensive and crowded -- Eastern Europe remains a great value. Here's what to expect this year.

Oil futures dropped sharply Tuesday on mounting concerns that the U.S. economy may be heading toward a recession that would dampen demand for crude

The bag this week encompassed such an embarrassment of riches that I am singling out the one negative voice for E-mailer of the Week honors. And although I have no hand in choosing the headline for this drivel, uh, for this column, may I humbly suggest the following: Gourmet Dining -- Humble Pie. Basically I am the type of person who tends to flog something to death, as all you readers know, and so does The Flaming Redhead. When I'm just getting warmed up on one of my favorite shpiels, I'll hear, sotto voce, "eighth time." This doesn't stop me, of course, but it does serve as a reminder that I'm tiptoeing into the senility pastures that beckon to those of older vintage.

The offensive coordinator and line coach of the Budapest Wolves is my E-mailer of the Week. So modest is this gentleman, William Goldenberg, who was born in the Bronx and now lives in Budapest (wasn't everybody?), that he says, "Honestly, I don't expect you to put this in your column, and frankly would prefer that you didn't LOL ... "

Early Tuesday, protesters across Hungary clashed with police and in Budapest stormed the headquarters of state television, responding with violence to a leaked recording that caught the countries prime minister admitting the government "lied morning, evening and night" about the economy.

As the dollar continues its slide against the euro - down almost 6 percent this year to a 1 year low - Americans thinking of traveling abroad might look beyond Paris, Rome or Madrid to destinations where the U.S. dollar remains strong.

Heavy snow across northern and central areas of Europe continued to cause problems for travelers on Friday with dangerous conditions expected into the weekend.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair found himself in a major row at home and abroad on the future of the EU budget as he stopped off in Hungary as part of his tour to meet eastern European leaders.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned new eastern EU members not to miss out on a budget deal and the newcomers signaled they could accept a small cut in planned aid.

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Security threats forced two passenger jets operated by Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines to make emergency landings in Budapest Sunday.

A Lufthansa jet en route from Istanbul to Frankfurt has made an emergency landing in Budapest after airline officials received a security threat, an airline spokesman said.

Hungarian national police arrested a 42-year-old Hungarian dentist of Palestinian origin Tuesday on suspicion of plotting to bomb a Jewish museum in Budapest, a police spokesman said.

With 10 more countries about to swell the ranks of the EU come May 1, the one business sector likely to get a boost is the travel industry -- both for leisure and business.

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Move over, Karl Marx. Hungary's premier university has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list. And, this month, the reform-minded Magyars are launching the East bloc's first MBA program...

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