A Bulgarian baby that became the first one with a liver transplant in the country has been taken home from the University Hospital Lozenets. The patient, just eight months of age, underwent surgery about a month ago.
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov will confer Tuesday with opposition lawmakers who insist for a veto on the draft state budged for 2005. It was approved on Sunday after heated debates that lingered for weeks.
The Bulgarian public is looking forward to Tuesday's performance by Anastasia Volochkova, a ballet soloist of Russia's legendary Bolshoi Theatre. The 27-year-old diva will dance to Spartak by Aram Khachaturyan, partnering Mark Peretokin.
Rival presidential candidates in Ukraine clashed in a live TV debate - days before Sunday's re-run of the disputed election. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, whose victory last month was declared illegal because of fraud, was facing opposition leader Vik
Ronaldinho has beaten Thierry Henry and Andrei Shevchenko to win the Fifa World Player of the Year award.
Bayer Leverkusen's striker Dimitar Berbatov became Bulgaria's best footballer for 2004. At a special ceremony organized in Sofia Berbatov received the cup by Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov, who wished him luck and more goals.
The National Electricity Transmission Company (NETC) might stop its exports in less than two years, according to NETC's Executive Director Vassil Anastassov. At a special press conference Anastassov explained that the ceasing of the exports might come as
Dimcho Dimchev, an MP from Bulgaria's ruling Simeon II National Movement (SIINM), was arrested and charged with drunk driving, police officials disclosed. Late on December 16 the Bulgarian MP crashed at the Sofia central boulevard Tsar Osvoboditel.
Two peer reviews, concerning Bulgaria's reforms in the judicial system, are to be conducted at the end of January - the beginning of February 2005 and in November respectively, the euro-affairs minister said.
An explosion rocked the center of the southern Iraqi city Karbala, media reported. No further information was revealed.
A Danish asthma patient planning to climb Mount Everest in the spring of 2005 has arrived at Hilton Sofia on his way to the top. Mogens Jensen, aged 32, would be the first one suffering asthma to climb Everest without an oxygen set.
Bulgarian scientists revealed the ancient name of the grandiose religious centre Perperikon thus unveiling one of the deepest secrets of the ancient world. The grandiose religious centre was once called Pergamon, the scientists announced.
Polish special forces have ended their mission in Iraq where they took part in joint operations alongside US troops, the Polish military said. "All the soldiers have returned to Poland having completed their mission," Polish army chiefs of staff spokesman
The makers of a giant mortadela salami in Sofia are hoping to enter to enter the Guinness Book of world records. The salami was 4.
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov met on Monday representatives of the country's rightist parties and discussed the upcoming elections in the country. Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), pointed out that the most proper
BayernLB, BNP Paribas and OTP Bank Ltd completed a EUR 140 M three-year syndicated term loan facility for DSK Bank, the largest retail bank in Bulgaria, owned by OTP, sources from the bank announced.
International attention on the Libyan HIV trial has been focused mainly on the Bulgarian defendants and not the infected Libyan children, the New York Times wrote. "Attention focuses on the fate of the nurses, who have been sentenced to death, and not of
Bulgaria's hard-pressed football club Levski is expected to sell hotshot striker Georgi Chilikov to Nuernberg FC, Germany, according to a Bulgarian daily. The team reportedly set a price of EUR 800,000 for the player.
Bulgaria's Transport Ministry has nominated ten companies in its Investment 2004 awards. The contenders have been grouped in three categories - new investment, investment in small and medium-sized enterprises, and investment in tourism.
A consortium between Israeli defence industry company Elbit Systems and U.S.
Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko is planning to visit one of the world's leading plastic surgeons in Israel, local media reported.
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