At least 2,000 angry protesters chanted anti-government slogans today as Austria’s president swore in a new centre-left chancellor and his Cabinet, a “grand coalition” forged more than three months after hard-fought elections.

THE diary of Gyula Csics for October 23, 1956, starts with a 12-year-old boy tending his grandfathers’ graves and ends with him listening to the sounds of a revolution which briefly freed Hungary from Soviet rule.