Australia
Many Australians celebrate Christmas outdoors....
Friends and relatives of the children who died in the stampede at Sofia disco club Indigo on December 21 unequivocally rejected the suggestion for a collective funeral ceremony. One of the victims, 14-year-old Madlena Nikolova, was buried on December 23....
Society | December 23, 2001, Sunday
BY Monique Geiss
Today, Lora’s name and face may not strike a chord immediately....
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
Adolfo Rodriguez Saa, a 54-year-old provincial governor appointed to serve as Argentina’s replacement president until elections on 3 March, announced the country will suspend its foreign debt payments, triggering the biggest debt default in history. Argen...
The condition of all thirteen hospitalised children, seriously injured after the tragic event at a Sofia disco on December 21, is improving. The doctors predict they will restore fully their health....
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
Argentina’s Congress delayed appointing a new interim president Saturday night as lawmakers quarreled over how long a caretaker government should remain in office and when to call fresh elections. They are likely to elect Adolfo Rodriguez Saa, a provincia...
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
Newly sworn in Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has begun the job of rebuilding his shattered land, with a meeting of his cabinet the first order of business. Chairman Karzai promised to fulfill his mission to bring peace to Afghanistan after years of war....
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
Israel says it will bar Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat from visiting Bethlehem at Christmas because he has not done enough to stop terrorism. The Palestinian leader told Voice of Palestine radio December 22 he would visit the town of Jesus...
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been named Time magazine's Personality of the Year, the magazine announced on December 23....
World | December 23, 2001, Sunday
American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami made an emergency landing in Boston after a passenger tried to light what may have been explosives in his shoes, authorities said. The FBI is still examining materials found after the incident on board a com...
Nuclear Power plant Kozloduy Unit 4 started operating at 55% of its capacity, after it was connected with the energy system of the country. The 440-MgW Unit was closed on August 20 for annual repairs and re-charge with nuclear fuel....
Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi on Saturday received Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy who is visiting Tripoli. Their meeting took place immediately after the conference the Bulgarian chief diplomat had with ambassadors of the European Unio...
Bulgaria mourns today the seven children that died on December 21 after a tragic event at a Sofia disco club. Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg declared December 23 a day of national mourning in a special address to the nation on December 22....
Bulgaria hails Afghanistan's interim administration inaugurated on December 22, 2002 under the Bonn-Petersburg accord of December 5, 2001, a statement of the Foreign Ministry, released on December 22, reads. Through the statement the Foreign Ministry of t...
Thousands disco places in Bulgaria were closed today not only expressing mourning to seven kinds who died Friday evening in a Sofia dance club, but under an order issued by the Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Boyko Borissov. Police and fire brigades sta...