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The federation of Italian ice cream makers have chosen a Hungarian to top the 2024 Gelato Festival World Rankings, organisers announced at a press conference in Rome on Tuesday.

Renowned film director and producer Laszlo Vitezy has died at the age of 83, his son said on Facebook on Friday.

Architect Jozsef Finta, who was awarded the Kossuth, Ybl Miklos, Steindl Imre and Prima Primissima prizes, also a member of the Hungarian Art Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, died at age 89 on Monday.

Ilan Weiss, a Hungarian citizen thought to have been taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, has been declared dead, the Be'eri kibbutz he lived in said on Monday.

Hungarian Nobel laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz is this year's recipient of the Public Media's Person of the Year Award given in recognition of the achievements in his professional career and activities having outstanding impact on society, Hungary's Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund ...

Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, on Tuesday attended a conference marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Jozsef Antall, Hungary's first prime minister after the democratic transition of 1989.

Philosopher Mihaly Vajda died on Monday at the age of 88, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday.

Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Kariko and American physician-scientist Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19, the secretary of the Nobel Assembly announced in ...