Bulgaria's EU-affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva has garnered most of the vote in Sofia News Agency's Personality of The Year survey for 2004. Kuneva swept 56% of a total of 900 votes, overpowering Lieutenant General Boyko Borissov in the Politics section.
The price of an ATM transaction for clients of another bank could soon jump up in Bulgaria, according to media reports. Experts were cited as saying that the price was likely to swell from BGN 0.
The Swiss ambassador to Tripoli and his wife have paid a New Year's visit to the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya, it was announced Monday. Ambassador Markus Peter met with the medics on January 2, to assure them that the international d
Bulgaria's police started Monday a manhunt for Nick Stein, the German-descended television host who triggered a racial discrimination scandal in 2003. This time Stein is suspected of committing numerous frauds in Bulgaria.
The referendum in France on the European Union Constitution will take place "before summer", the French President Jacques Chirac said. In a national address broadcast late Friday, Chirac said: 'In 2005, you will have the future of this Europe in your hand
The nephew of the former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel and ex-owner of the Turkish Egebank Yahya Murat Demirel was among the three Turkish citizens, arrested by the Bulgarian border authorities at the Burgas checkpoint Friday night. A Turkey-flagged
Bulgaria's member in the International Olympic Committee Ivan Slavkov, who heads the country's Olympic Committee and the Football Union, will be expelled from the elite club at the crucial IOC session in Singapore, the President of the International Olymp
A crowd of Bulgarian unemployed people have blocked the Bregovo Checkpoint on the Serbian Border, protesting against the decision of the Minsitry of Labour and Social Policy to cut off by over 80% the number of employees within the "From Social Benefits t
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale shook Portugal on Monday, world media said.
Italy will fly flags at half-mast on January 5 amid reports that 18 Italians had died and 570 were missing after Sunday's 9.0-magnitude quake that helped devastate vast areas of South Asia and created huge tsunamis.
Turkey's Central Bank has officially informed the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) on the denomination of the Turkish currency, BNB announced Monday.
Canada's Food Inspection Agency has confirmed a mad cow case in the Alberta province, after tests were carried out. The animal was born in 1996 and was apparently infected before 1997.
The Bulgarian Privatization Agency has prolonged by 20 days the deadline for applying for the sale of 75% stakes in eight companies of Terem state arms plant.
Volare, one of the two Italian airlines, which declared interest in the privatization of Bulgaria's national flag carrier Bulgaria Air at the beginning of the year, has gone bankrupt, local Pari daily reported.
The Bulgarian teenager who has confessed to slaughtering a schoolmate was proved sane by doctors, it was announced Monday. Kristiyan Petrov, aged 17, is suspected of murdering a classmate with an axe after a gambling quarrel.
A political party aimed to bring together Big Brother fans was inaugurated in Sofia on Monday. The founder - Atanass Panayotov - gave the new formation the name Big Brother National Movement, apparently with a wink to the ruling Simeon II National Moveme
A 40-year-old Briton has admitted sending hoax emails to desperate relatives of people missing after the Asia tsunami disaster.
Individual licenses for UMTS systems of third generation (3G) will be issued after holding tenders, the State Communications Regulation Commission decided on Monday since potential buyers outnumber the available licenses.
Bulgarian eighth-graders saw the largest declines in average math and science scores, followed by their peers in Sweden and Norway, according to the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), cited by the Washington Times.
A gigantic rooster made of ice perched in the central square in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to celebrate the incoming New Year, which according to the Chinese calendar is the Year of the Rooster.
Bulgaria's young hopeful Sesil Karatantcheva qualified for the second round of the Gold Coast tennis tournament. In the first round Karatantcheva outplayed Maria Elena Kamerin of Italy 6-2, 6-4.
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