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Budapest Keleti railway station was built between 1881 and 1884.

This grand old station is the perfect place to begin a train journey

An impressive survivor from the golden age of rail, this European hub has been updated and modernised for 21st-century travel.

  • Tim Richards

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Australian Oscar Piastri is leading the drivers’ standings and will start the Hungarian Grand Prix second on the grid behind Charles Leclerc.

As it happened: Norris wins Hungarian GP while Piastri settles for second in dramatic final lap

Championship leader Oscar Piastri tried to overtake his teammate in the dying seconds of the final lap, but it wasn’t enough.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Lewis Hamilton started and finished the Hungarian Grand Prix in 12th position.

‘Things in the background are not great’: Lewis Hamilton fuels talk of Ferrari split

Hamilton joined Ferrari in pursuit of his eighth world drivers’ title. But it hasn’t gone to plan, and his comments after the Hungarian Grand Prix suggest these are troubled times at Maranello.

  • Luke Slater
Grand arrival … Budapest.

Port guide: Budapest, Hungary

Grand architecture, a rich history, and a stylish and confident present make Budapest one of Europe’s most beautiful, fascinating and lively capitals.

  • Brian Johnston
The love child of brioche and a doughnut.

This country’s rustic doughnut offshoot is worthy of a trip on its own

You’ll need your stretchy pants for a day-trip to this Hungarian town where a brioche and a doughnut had a love child.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel.

The real-life Grand Budapest Hotel is excessive in the best ways

This palatial Anantara outpost feels like I’ve stepped onto a Wes Anderson film set.

  • Sheriden Rhodes
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Australia won six medals at the world athletics championships in Budapest.

‘We can do anything in Paris’: Why grand Budapest haul has Aussie aths team cock-a-hoop

Australia’s athletics team leaves Hungary with its best-ever haul of medals from the world championships and brimming with confidence less than a year out from the Paris Olympics.

  • Michael Gleeson
Silver medallist Eleanor Patterson, Ukraine’s gold medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh nd bronze medallist Nicola Olyslagers wer on the podium in the women’s high jump.

Two medals in one event: Aussie high jumpers claim both silver and bronze

Neither Eleanor Patterson nor Nicola Olyslagers claimed gold in the high jump, but they did achieve a rare feat, and they were overjoyed for the winner, displaced Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh.

  • Michael Gleeson
Australia’s Kurtis Marschall competing in the pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Budapest, where he won a bronze medal.

Bronze is rich reward for Marschall when Mondo has gold in the vault

Australian Kurtis Marschall knew he couldn’t beat pole vault great Armand Duplantis, but was elated to win a medal and end up on the podium with the man called “Mondo”.

  • Michael Gleeson
Australian Mackenzie Little’s path to a bronze medal in the women’s javelin final at the world athletics championships in Budapest.

She’s no Dr do-Little: Why Aussie javelin thrower might need a day off work to collect her Budapest bronze

Compete against the world’s best javelin throwers in Budapest on Friday night, collect your medal at the weekend, back at work in a Sydney hospital on Monday. Welcome to Mackenzie Little’s busy life as a FIFO athlete.

  • Michael Gleeson