Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has ordered a halt to the transit of natural gas through his country into Ukraine from July, according to a decree published overnight. The decree follows Orbán's stated aim of pressuring the neighbouring country to restore the flow of oil through the Druzhba pipeline, which was damaged in a Russian strike.

Dr. Uma Naidoo, a nutritional psychiatrist, says the sugar found in many comfort foods hits our brains in the same pleasure center as street drugs do. But that's not the only reason we find comfort in such treasured dishes; there is also warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia.

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy maintained his innocence on Tuesday, telling an appeal hearing in Paris that not a single cent from Libya helped fund his 2007 presidential campaign. “I owe the truth to French people,” Sarkozy told a three-judges panel during a hearing in the case that lead him to spend 20 days in prison before being granted release pending appeal. Sarkozy, 71, is challenging his conviction after being found guilty in September of “criminal conspiracy.”