At least 22 people were lightly hurt in a crash of two low-speed commuter trains at the Atocha station, notoriously known for the March 11 terrorist acts last year when nearly 200 people died. The accident occurred at 12:40 p.
A correspondent of the British "The Times" has found mass graves near a Buddhist temple in Thailand where over 10,000 bodies were buried secretly.
Romania, which is expected to become EU full member in 2007, is very likely to turn into a "shop window" and a "model" for the neighbour countries, said the new Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu.
The deadly Asian earthquake have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation shortening days by a fraction of a second, US scientists said, and caused the planet to wobble on its axis. According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsio
The helicopter carrying Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy to Antarctica has landed on a small island amid the ocean hampered to reach the ice continent because of bad weather, local Darik Radio informed. After the departure was delayed by seven h
The owner of the Buenos Aires nightclub where 183 people burned in a fire on December 31 was brought to court. Omar Cnaban refused to answer to the questions of the court.
The Sofia City Court ruled to extend the arrest of the three men seized in alleged blackmailing of the owners of a mineral water bottling plant in Sofia's suburban area of Gorna Banya. The gang's mastermind - Emil Kotsev - was accused of blackmailing and
The trade turnover between Bulgaria and South Korea is likely to increase on behalf of the Asian country, businessmen projected during the bilateral business forum organised at the end of Bulgarian delegation's official visit to Seoul. South Korea's expe
The Social Ministry pledged to find a work placement for all eligible unemployed people under the new projects of the program "From Social Benefits to Employment". Protests of thousands of Bulgarians who found themselves sacked from the temporary jobs th
Gardeners in Bulgaria's coastal resort of Balchik have grown a giant lemon, media disclosed. The piece weights 1.
Germany became the biggest donor for the countries, hit by the tsunami flood disaster, after its government increased its aid to EUR 500 M (USD 680,2 M), to be released over a period of between three and five years.
Indonesian authorities banned youngsters from leaving the country amid concerns by child welfare groups such as UNICEF that Indonesian gangs will attempt to kidnap children and sell them into forced labor or even sexual slavery in wealthier neighboring co
Bulgaria's top basketball team Lukoil Academic beat Serb BC Reflex in an ULEB Cup game late on Tuesday. The match took place in Serbia and Montenegro, and Bulgarian captain Todor Stoykov led the winners with 24 points.
Hospitality training is a very important key for the future development of Bulgarian tourism, Nevada's former tourism minister said upon his arrival in Bulgaria. Thomas Tait, now Vice President of Lake Las Vegas Resort, will take part in the major touris
A car bomb exploded at a police academy south of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding many more. The explosion happened at a graduation ceremony in Hilla, about 100km south of the capital, Baghdad.
Bulgaria is set to launch negotiations for providing the new Iraqi army with arms, Bulgaria's Chief of Army Staff Gen Nikola Kolev announced. At a special ceremony dedicated to Bulgaria's third Iraq unit Kolev also pointed out that the country's fourth u
The outgoing Ukrainian President, Leonid Kuchma, formally accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych resigned his post on December 31, after rival candidate Viktor Yushchenko was declared the winner of the re-run presidential
Bulgaria's official institutions lowered the national flags at half mast on Wednesday thus paying last respects to those killed in the Asian tsunami disaster. The flags of all 25 countries members of the European Union were also flown at half mast and th
Two Bulgarian tennis players- Magdalena Maleeva and Sesil Karatantcheva managed to qualify for the quarters of the international women's tennis tournament Gold Coast in Australia. French Open junior champion Karatantcheva came from 0-3 down in the third
The US Embassy helped for the release of the nephew of former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, Yahya Murat Demirel, who was arrested December 31 along with two other Turkish citizens by the border authorities in the coastal city of Burgas, media says.
The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, urged the international community to prioritise youngsters made orphans by the tsunami disaster. Unicef head Carol Bellamy made the plea ahead of a donors' meeting on Thursday.
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