Vanko 1, one of Bulgaria's top rap artists, was sentenced to four years and a half in prison and a BGN 4500 fine for incitement to prostitution. His cousin and accomplice Dimitar Rachelov will spend four years in prison and will have to pay BGN 4000 fine
A 38-year-old man with mental disorders stabbed his six-year-old son and then committed suicide jumping off the balcony of his flat. The jump from the ninth floor of the block in Backston Brothers neighbourhood was fatal for Antonio Robinzonov who died o
Bulgaria's special forces defused a bomb in the Black Sea's city of Varna, near the Spartacus Stadium.
Bulgarian police have found a hand made bomb in the home of a citizen from the Black Sea's city of Varna.
Traffic along Sofia's key boulevard Tsarigradsko Shose is heavily impeded due to a traffic accident, a SNA reporter noticed. A military truck has crashed into a Kamaz truck, partially blocking the boulevard's lane leading towards the centre of the city.
Romania's Supreme Cassation Court released a Bulgarian citizen, charged with espionage in the privatisation of Romanian energy companies. The ruling is final and not subject to appeal.
Thousands have gathered in Istanbul for the funeral of slain editor Hrant Dink.
Vanko 1, one of Bulgaria's top rap artists, entered the court again after being sentenced to twelve years in prison for incitement to prostitution and released.
Prominent Russian journalist Konstantin Borovko has been murdered in Vladivostok. The 25-year-old TV host was found battered to death near a building block, ITAR-TASS reported.
Police in Bulgaria's eastern village of Kamenyak have uncovered a vicious double murder, despite a fire, meant to cover up clues. The murderer, a 20-year-old man has confessed to killing an elderly married couple he was related to.
Part of Sofia's downtown area was closed off for a while on Monday, because of a suspicious black package with wires sticking out from it. Authorities quickly cleared the area between the Alabin and Lavele streets, but the item turned out to be a prank.
Doctors have concluded that the injuries that Romanian track runner Maria Cioncan suffered during a car crash in Bulgaria were fatal and she couldn't have been saved. Autopsy reports show that the Olympic bronze winner had suffered severe trauma to the h
At least 78 people have been killed and another 150 injured when two car bombs went off almost simultaneously at a market in Baghdad's Bab al-Sharqi district. This is the bloodiest attack in the city in two months, media claim.
Unidentified robbers have pilfered a rakia-distilling factory in the Bulgarian village of Markovo. One of the factory's brick walls was demolished and the culprits snuck in, trying to take one of the three copper distillers.
Speeding drivers are the reason for 95% of the car accidents along Bulgaria's roads, statistics have revealed. The country's Infrastructure of the Republic Fund has already had the rough data compiled and the alarming trends are quite evident.
Pleven's police said it is investigating the claims that local policemen have asked for money to call an ambulance following the car crash that caused the death of Romanian track runner Maria Cioncan. Pleven police commissioner Bisser Ivanov, who heads t
The death of a Romanian track runner in a car crash in Bulgaria sparked controversy, Romanian media reported on Monday. Bulgarian paramedics said Romanian track runner Maria Cioncan died instantly, but her coach Stefan Beregszaszy claimed she was still b
France will start a trial against 56 people of the Roma community in the country, on accusations of buying babies from Bulgarian mothers. The accused purchased the children of Bulgarian mothers, who were in need of money, and presented themselves as thei
Forty Frenchmen from the town of Bobigny, near Paris, will enter courtroom on Monday over charges of buying Bulgarian babies from their impoverished parents. The baby trafficking ring was busted in October 2005 after a joint operation by Bulgarian border
The official web site of the Macedonian president Branko Crvenkovski suffered a hacker attack Sunday when a message in Bulgarian language sent out a greeting. The posting noted ironically that it is surprising how enormous efforts some Macedonians pay to
Turkish prosecutors say the teenager suspected of murdering Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has confessed. Ogun Samast was arrested after he was identified by his father from CCTV images taken near the scene of Friday's killing in Istanbul.
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