More than 55 passengers are feared dead as their bus fell into a canal in southern India on Monday. At least seven people survived and rescue teams were searching for others, but said they feared most on board may have drowned.
Baghdad's deputy police chief has been killed outside his home in the south of the Iraqi capital. Amer Ali Nayef was shot dead along with his son, Khalid Amer - also a policeman - as they left the family home for work in the south of the city.
The Intergovernmental Council for NATO Integration in Sofia is opening a session on Monday.
Britain and the United States will send a team to Iraq to reassess security in the face of spiralling violence, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a televised interview Sunday evening.
A US helicopter on a relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring all 10 aboard and causing the military to briefly suspend flights on Monday. A new tsunami videotape showed roiling brown water engulfing everything in its p
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov opened his four-day Latin American tour by a two-day visit to Chile to end January 11 at the invitation of his Chilean counterpart. The visit will be followed by a two-day stay in Brazil.
Mahmoud Abbas declared victory in Palestinian presidential elections on Sunday, winning around two-thirds of the vote.
Foreign Minister Solomon Passy opened a Bulgarian honorary consulate on Sunday evening in the framework of his two-day visit to Uruguay. Igor Svetogorski, an Uruguayan businessman of Bulgarian descent, has been appointed honorary consul.
Mahmoud Abbas is set to become the president of the Palestinian Authority.
Experts do not rule out a possible outbreak of diseases after hundreds of residents of Suhodol blocked off access to the local dump over the weekend to protest what they said was pollution. Sofia mayor Stefan Sofianski promised the protestors that househ
A sailor has died after a US nuclear submarine ran aground south of the Pacific island of Guam. The accident occurred on Saturday, near the submarine's home port of Guam, one of the most important US Pacific bases.
Socialist leader Stanishev cited Sunday the "complacency" and "callousness" of the Bulgarian tourists, who recently safely returned from disaster-hit Thailand, as an example of how distorted Bulgarian society has become over the last years.
The acting police chief in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra was killed Sunday, a police official said. Gunmen opened fire on Mohammed al-Badri as he traveled in his car near Samarra, the official said.
Sofia Municipality, which holds 67% stake in slated for sale Municipal Bank, must retain a bigger stake in a bid to earn the clients' confidence and raise its price, according to Sofia mayor.
"No one in women's tennis has a smile this sly. Few players, if any, can match Sesil Karatantcheva's playfulness.
Seven Ukrainian soldiers and one Kazakh soldier serving in Iraq were killed in an explosion, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. The blast occurred while aviation bombs were being loaded.
Residents of Bulgaria's capital Sofia planted in the biggest Southern park the first 400 Christmas trees in what is to be called a Christmas Forest. The project aims to prevent unscrupulous cutting of conifers before the Christmas holidays.
A Chinese couple who refused to give their names made the largest contribution of USD 600,000 for the tsunami victims in South and Southeast Asian nations.
A law that bans smoking in public places becomes effective in Italy on Monday amid the outrage of restaurant owners. The law provides for owners to be fined up to 2,000 pounds for failing to report patrons who have a quick cigarette.
The Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, which holds the country's third GSM operator licence, will announce its mobile services price list right before its launch, representatives of the company said. The company has promised to dump mobile phone charg
A total of sixteen breaches of technological norms have led to the collapse of a six-floor building in Sofia, which killed one men and injured another five, the labor inspection office found out.
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