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COPENHAGEN -- The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday. The investor-philanthropist, one in a line of international notables visiting the 192-nation meeting, told reporters he had developed a partial solution. Mr. Soros suggested shifting some International Monetary Fund resources from providing liquidity to stressed global financial systems to a new mission of financing projects in developing countries for clean energy and adapting to climate change.

Here is video of President Obama today answering a question at a Town Hall Style Meeting from a Hungarian woman who tells him his name "Barack" means "Peach" in Hungarian. Obama goes on to answer the woman's question which was whether he has ever regretted running for President. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

Hungary's busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed. Five-thousand of the animals were let loose on the road, police say.

SHENZHEN, China, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has announced the successful treatment with umbilical cord stem cells of the youngest stroke patient ever to undergo such a procedure. The announcement was made following a two-month evaluation period by physicians in her native country, Hungary, to verify the positive results. Starting from October 28th, Beike provided umbilical cord stem cells to the Nanshan People's Hospital for the treatment of a four-month-old Hungarian baby girl named Timea Gresco, who had suffered a stroke when she was delivered three months prematurely. Umbilical cord stem cells were delivered intravenously over...

Two-second penalties for both Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher set up a thrilling qualifying session for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon. With the two key championship contenders eliminated before the top-ten shootout, the honours for pole position fell right at the very end to McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen, whose last-gasp lap of 1m 19.599s came just as Felipe Massa looked to have bagged the first Formula One pole of his career. Also, Hungarian Grand Prix stewards have cancelled American Scott Speed’s three fastest qualifying times as punishment for impeding another driver during Saturday’s session. The move means the Toro...

Separated in a flight from communism and reunited decades later, Tamás Pusztai and his mother are still taunted by fate

Budapest — Kimi Raikkonen blew away the field Sunday at the Hungarian Grand Prix, winning by 35.5 seconds for his fourth victory of the season. Pole-sitter Michael Schumacher finished a distant second, with his brother, Ralf Schumacher, taking third. Raikkonen's sixth career victory gave him 61 points this season, second to Formula One points leader Fernando Alonso. Alonso finished out of the points, but still holds a commanding lead with 87 points.

U.S. agrees to Nazi "gold train" settlement By Michael Christie Tuesday December 21, 2:30 AM MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War Two, lawyers said on Monday. The agreement over 24 boxcars filled with $50 million to $200 million worth of art and household goods stolen by the Nazis and then confiscated by the United States still has to be worked out in detail, a lawyer for...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's 300 troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of March 2005, the government said, in an announcement officials said was timed to avoid influencing the U.S. presidential election. Officials said the decision was announced between the end of voting and the official result of the U.S. presidential election, so as to avoid making it a campaign issue and to show it would have been made irrespective of who was U.S. president. "The timing of the decision is not a coincidence, there is no result yet in the U.S. election and we wanted to demonstrate...

Hungarian troops stationed in Iraq could be withdrawn before their mandate expires at the end of the year if stability is restored in the country by then, Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs said Thursday. "The hope is greater now that the situation in Iraq could develop favourably," Kovacs told Hungarian public television from New York. "Hungarian soldiers could come home before their mandate ends if their presence is no longer needed." Kovacs added however that Iraq's stabilisation before December 31, 2004 -- the date until which Hungarian troops have a parliamentary mandate to stay in Iraq -- was an "optimistic" assessment....

The first Hungarian soldier to die in Iraq has been killed in a blast south of Baghdad. The 27-year-old soldier was with a 47-member convoy that came under attack as it headed for a Ukrainian base with supplies of water. Hungary deployed 300 soldiers, mostly logistics experts, in Iraq last September. They have a parliamentary mandate to stay until the end of this year. The country's political opposition has recently urged the Government to withdraw its soldiers but the ruling Socialist-Liberal coalition has insisted the men will fulfil their mandate. Defence Minister Ferenc Juhasz told journalists that Hungary's troops would...