Budapest Zoo will reopen on Friday evening for the 15th Night of Zoos, offering animal demonstrations, feeding sessions, educational talks, stage performances and planetarium shows. Visitors will be able to attend programmes from 7pm until 11pm and remain in the zoo until midnight.

Hungarian households are expected to spend an average of 107,539 forints on preparing for the new school year, with spending averaging 66,928 forints per child, according to a new PwC survey. Most families continue to prioritise traditional school supplies, while online shopping and AI tools are becoming increasingly common.

European Council President António Costa will meet Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar in Budapest on 2 September as part of his tour of EU member states. The talks will focus on the bloc’s next long-term budget and other key EU priorities.

Pedro Sánchez came to power promising political ‘regeneration’; eight years later, Ceuta has become the clearest symbol of what his experiment produced instead. Corruption scandals, radical social engineering and a permissive migration policy have converged in an enclave fighting for its existence against invading masses, while Madrid’s denial has betrayed Ceuta, Spain and, increasingly, Europe itself.

British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is returning as his iconic character from the 1990s and 2000s, Ali G, in a new mockumentary. However, despite the character’s immense popularity in past decades, Cohen is now constantly being attacked for being racist, doing blackface, and supporting Israel while promoting his new film on social media.

A man in his 40s suffered life-threatening injuries after falling onto the Danube embankment following a fight near a Budapest nightclub. Police are investigating the incident, while the venue says neither its staff nor security used pepper spray during the altercation.