Budapest - A plane carrying four Hungarian soldiers on its way to the Afghan capital Kabul was forced to land in Iran, the Hungarian Defence Ministry said late Tuesday, clearing up confusion about the aircraft, which Iranian media had claimed was from the US.

The plane was forced to land for bureaucratic reasons, the ministry said.

Budapest (Hungary), Oct 7: Archaeologists have unearthed one of the earliest Roman villas in Budapest, Hungary.

According to a report in All Hungary News, the site is of special importance, as it fits well into the line of villas previously found in the area, providing more information on the location and extension of villa farms around Aquincum.

Ruins of the Roman building complex were discovered following several months of excavation work at a plot destined to become a hypermarket.

The Office of Cultural Heritage had ordered the excavation to be carried out, as a Roman wall was found under the neighboring plot at Becsi ut 260 in 2004.

Budapest  - An express train slammed into the back of a local train outside Budapest on Monday, killing a man and injuring 30 people, a news agency reported.

Budapest  - Financing for a proposed European gas pipeline that skirts Russia may be delayed by the global credit crunch, a Hungarian official was quoted Tuesday as saying.

But Mihaly Bayer, Hungary's special envoy for the Nabucco pipeline, insisted that governments could still be able to sign an agreement this year to launch the project, the MTI news agency reported.

The 3,300-kilometre line is slated to run Caspian gas via Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to an Austrian distribution hub. Gas is to start flowing in 2013.

Budapest  - Police have used tear-gas to break up rioting right-wing demonstrators at a protest in Budapest on Saturday evening, security officials have said.

Several hundred sympathisers of the so-called 64-Counties Movement demonstrated in the city centre in response to an earlier rally by the anti-fascist Hungarian Democratic Charter, at which Hungary's socialist prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany had appeared as a speaker.

Budapest  - The Budapest prosecutor's office said Tuesday that it was pressing on with a hate-crime investigation into the showing of the Nazi-era anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Suess (The Jew Suess), denying earlier reports that the case had been halted.

The prosecutor was denying a Tuesday morning report in the left- wing daily Nepszava, Hungary's MTI news agency reported.

The prosecutor had allowed an objection to the status of suspect being applied to two of the men being investigated.