Top Hungary news: missing teenager, self-driving taxis, internet on planes, Siberia’s chill – 19 January, 2026

We’ve rounded up the top Hungary news from today: teenager missing, self-driving taxis, internet on Budapest Airport flights, Siberia’s chill, MOL acquisition.

Featured Hungary news

• Disappeared Hungarian teenager may have plunged into the Danube from the Chain Bridge
• PM Orbán’s billion-dollar wager on Trump: a seat at the top table, but at what cost amid Hungary’s debt spiral?
• A host of flights from Budapest Airport will soon boast free, blisteringly fast internet
• Will self-driving taxis soon tear through Budapest’s streets? That’s what the experts say now

Winter in Hungary

• Meteorologists uncover how long Siberia’s chill grips Hungary
• Videos: ice-breakers shatter the freeze on the Danube – even Aussie media’s buzzing about it

Additional news

• A 600-year-old viking ship discovered off the coast of Denmark
• Hungarian oil and gas titan MOL swells in size with Russian stake grab in Serbia’s NIS
• Ten years of Budapest British International School: interview with founder Petra Szalai
• Serial production of new, fully-electric Mercedes model has started in Hungary