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.
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party voiced determination to pull Bulgaria's 450-strong infantry out of Iraq should they oust the ruling party in the forthcoming elections.
Unknown thieves attempted to steal the jersey of Bulgaria's football star Hristo Stoitchkov, which is among the memorabilia exhibited at the Museum of former Argentina captain Diego Maradona in Naples.
Bulgaria is to reopen its embassy in Khartoum, it was announced at the end of the week as Sudan's government and southern rebels forged a comprehensive peace ending Africa's longest-running civil war.
The national origin of nearly 2,000 victims of Thailand's tsunami disaster were called into question after further examinations. "The number has changed because authorities have set up a committee to identify who they are.
In its efforts to prop up the economy and induce foreign investments, Bulgaria can use as a model the way Korea overcame the Asian financial crisis in the late 90s, Bulgarian Parliamentary speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov said in an interview for Arirang TV, Kor
A tremor, measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale, shook several towns in Aceh on Sunday as aftershocks continue to rock the Indonesian province, two weeks after a mammoth 9.
Palestinians vote on Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat in their first presidential elections since 1996. Some 1.
British philatelist and postal historian Mr. Barnier offered free evaluation and advises to stamp collectors in Sofia.
The City of Sofia will sell 80.5% of the statute capital of its Municipal Bank, one of Bulgaria's commercial banks with a full banking license.
The death toll from a head-on collision of a passenger and a freight train near the Northern Italian city of Bologna has risen to 14. The two trains collided Friday afternoon on a stretch of single track in heavy fog.
An explosion at a house south of Mosul killed 14 people and wounded five in what residents say was a US air attack. The U.
The condition of the young woman who was attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Sofia Friday morning is stable, doctors said as public debate on how to rid the city of the hordes came into the limelight again.
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