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Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, died Sunday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88 and had been in declining health. Since 1958, Starker had been a professor at the Indiana...

BUDAPEST, April 29 (Reuters) - The head of a Hungarian anti-racism group said far-right soccer fans shouted "Sieg Heil" and attacked him, breaking his nose days before the country is due to host the World Jewish Congress. Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the...

Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, has died. He was 88. Starker, who died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., had been in terminal care for the last few weeks, according to reports from wire...

LONDON (Reuters) - The euro zone debt crisis has made investors wary of western European bank stocks and they are seeking more value and less risk in banks in central Europe, Russia, Turkey and even Africa. The problems of western Europe's banking...

An anonymous tipster clued me in to a downtown Allentown curiosity — a Hungarian church making Catholic pizza. Catholic pizza? What's Catholic pizza? Regular pizza shaped like a cross? Or, because of the Hungarian twist, could it be strudel filled...

Student honors: The following students were named 2013 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Initiative Scholars for their classroom work and potential for success in college and beyond. Initiative scholars receive a $1,000 award from the Kohl Foundation....

The heirs of the Budapest-based Jewish banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have cleared a major legal hurdle in their decades-long quest to force Hungary to return dozens of artworks from Herzog's collection that were looted during World War II. In 2010,...

April 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the European championship Men's Individual All-Around Final on Friday 1. David Belyavskiy (Russia) 89.799 2. Max Whitlock (Britain) 89.106 3. Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine) 88.398 4. Oleg Stepko (Ukraine) 88....

* Indian govt minutes detail stand-off over grounded jets * Airports stake their claims as lessors seek to recover planes * Minutes say airports must release Kingfisher jets "immediately" * Kingfisher dispute seen as test for international finance pact...

April 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the European championship Women's Individual All-Around Final on Friday 1. Aliya Mustafina (Russia) 59.032 2. Larisa Andreea Iordache (Romania) 58.432 3. Anastasia Grishina (Russia) 57.932 4. Diana Bulimar...

When traveling to Europe, I sometimes crank up the voice of my grandmother telling stories of her journey from Norway to Canada. The boat ride was miserable. The only thing she could keep down was beer -- she became a teetotaler the day she saw the Statue...

The origins of the board game Diplomacy can be traced to an old geography book that Allan B. Calhamer discovered while rummaging around with a friend in the attic of his boyhood home in suburban Chicago. Calhamer was fascinated by the exotic countries...