A knife-wielding man forced his way into a primary school in north-east China and injured 12 young children, state media reported.The man, whose identity is unknown, entered the school in Mingcheng township in Jilin province and attacked the grade one pup
Seventy-eight people have been injured, one seriously, when a goods train that had failed to observe a stop sign smashed into the rear of an inter-city passenger train in south-eastern Italy. Officials say the crash occurred late on Thursday in open count
There are all needed premises in Bulgaria for the construction of a resort - nice beaches, ski tracks in the mountains, interesting cuisine and landscapes reminding of Toscana and Umbria, Russian Vedomosti newspaper reports. Just recently another inevita
The traffic in downtown Sofia will be subject to strict limitations until Tuesday, December 7, as part of the security measures adopted for the OSCE annual summit. The local authorities have denied two-way access and parking altogether along the stretch
Ten new ambulances were given to the country's Emergency centers on Friday. Bulgaria's Health Minister Slavcho Bogoev gave away the ten keys to the heads of the Emergency centers.
There are 15 international forgery gangs currently working in Bulgaria, Bulgaria's Interior Chief Secretary General Lieutenant Boyko Borissov announced at a Fraud Training Seminar in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Security Service should be in charge of issuing access certificates to NATO secrets instead of the State Commission on Information Security (SCIS). Bulgaria's Chief of Army Staff Nikola Kolev talked to the local Darik radio and underlined that
UK deejaying legend Carl Cox is getting ready to rock Sofia in an all-night music marathon this weekend. Cox has been enjoying immense international popularity, and is believed to be one of the world's best DJs.
Bulgaria-born artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, famous for wrapping Germany's Reichstag in fabric, began the Central Park project with the delivery of 15,000 steel bases. A total of 7,500 16-foot metal frames will be erected throughout the park
Bulgarians are hectically building up rakiya and vodka reserves prior to the increase of excise duty, a local newspaper said. As of January 2005, the rates will rise to BGN 750 per hectolitre liquor, and to BGN 1.
Ukraine's Supreme Court is due to rule today on overturning the result of a disputed presidential election as most political forces in Ukraine call for a fresh vote of the elections to put an end to the nearly two-week crisis. A day earlier the European P
An attack on a Baghdad police station killed 12 policemen and left another ten wounded on Friday morning, media reported. Al Jazeera cited police sources as saying that the attackers freed all prisoners detained at the police station and set ablaze three
One of the Bulgarian participants in the Big Brother reality show could be kicked out because of misdemeanour, media said. Nayden Naydenov, 25, was quick to impress viewers with his biting humour and romping attitude when the show kicked off on private N
Bulgaria's Transport Ministry is expected to shortlist US and German consortia in the final stage of the tender for concessions of the airports in the coastal cities of Varna and Burgas before the deadline, which expires Friday.
Bulgaria's President will hold talks for boosting economic relations between Bulgaria and Portugal. President Georgi Parvanov started a three-day official visit to Portugal on Thursday.
Bulgarian sharpshooter Valeri Bojinov has extended his contract with Italy's Lecce until 2009. Under the new conditions, the teenagers will receive a higher salary, according to Bulgarian media.
Court in Bulgaria's Danubian city of Russe will hear the case against a Romanian journalist nabbed with a mini video camera in his eyeglasses. George Buhnici was arrested in November in Bulgaria's border checkpoint area.
The case with Ivan Slavkov is an unhappy and unsatisfying remnant of the past, IOC President Jacques Rogge told BBC Radio Five Live. Last week the IOC Executive Board decided that Slavkov has violated the ethical principles set out in the Olympic Charter
The body of Russian Buddhist lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, who died in 1927, did not decay over a 75-year period, medical experts and historians say. The Russian officials announced that samples taken 75 years after the burial indicated that the organics o
A simple DNA test could spot which smokers have an addictive gene and would likely benefit from particular quit methods, say scientists.
Social Minister Hristina Hristova has given out awards to Bulgarian employers with largest contribution in the employment of disabled people. The ceremony was held in the dawn of the International Day of Disabled People, November 3, and just a month befo
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