If Bulgaria should maintain its current rate of economic growth, it will catch up with living standards in the European Union in about 60 years, Professor Richard Crampton at the University of Oxford has told Deutsche Welle. Crampton has delivered in Brus
The state visit of the US President George W. Bush to the UK will be held among high security measures, taken by the British police.
The Executive Committee of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) turned down Bulgaria's appeal for an extraordinary meeting of the Arbitration Commission in connection to the doping scandal that left the three top Bulgarian weightlifters out of
An unidentified attacker robbed the post office at the town of Dobrich and stole some BGN 200,000 Monday evening. Investigators suspect an insider may be involved in the robbery since the cashier, who carried the money, moved unguarded.
The captain of the Bulgarian ship Dobrudzha, which was arrested in France end-July on pollution charges, will stand trial in Brest on Tuesday.
Bulgaria's capital Sofia together with Turkey's and Romania's capitals, respectively Ankara and Bucharest, are uniting their efforts in the fight against terrorism.
All-Turkish tie-in Koc Holding/Turk Telecom has renewed its bid bond at the Privatisation Agency for the privatisation of 65% stake in Bulgaria's dominant telecom carrier the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), it emerged on Monday.
Economic growth in the countries in Eastern Europe is outpacing much of the rest of the world, but are still lagging behind in the field of regional cooperation, according to the annual report by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 56-year-old Hollywood action hero, was sworn in Monday as governor of California and said he was ready to take on the "massive weight we must lift off our state." After being sworn-in as the state's 38th governor, Schwarzenegger
The experts from the Atomic Questions Group/Working Party on Nuclear Safety (AQG/WPNS) with the European Union, who started the peer review on units 3 and 4 of Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant in Kozloduy on Monday, are to hold meetings today at the Nu
There is great potential for further cooperation between Bulgaria and Albania in the field of tourism, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and Albania's Prime Minister Fatos Nano have concluded during their meeting in Sofia Monday. Transportation, defenc
Security cameras filmed a suicide bomber as he drove a truck laden with explosives at an Istanbul synagogue, Turkey's interior minister has said. Investigators are now trying to identify the attacker although the footage is not clear.
Former US soldier and Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad was found guilty of murder, terrorism, conspiracy and a firearms charge in Monday's court session in West Virginia. The 42-year-old Gulf War veteran was convicted of shooting dead Dean Me
Yet another policeman who sat behind the wheel after having a few drinks has been caught in the town of Montana. The infringement was proved by a blood test, and chiefs of the 35-year-old officer have already been informed about his misdeed.
None of the Bulgarian diplomats in Libya could identify the body of nurse Diana Vassileva who committed suicide earlier this year. The body, however, has been identified by the woman's colleges at the rehabilitation center in Benghazhi where she worked u
Bulgaria's Den TV channel that aroused a "racial discrimination" scandal at the beginning of November, may continue its broadcasts until the court decides on the case, local bTV reported Monday. Earlier this month, the country's Council for Electronic Me
An experimental wind power generator has been installed near the small Bulgarian town of Staro Selo, online version of local Dnevnik daily wrote Monday. The facility's testing period expands to March 2004, and after that the company which installed the g
Two Bulgarian meat smugglers that had been arrested in neighboring Turkey have escaped custody and returned to Bulgaria, the country's Info radio said Monday. The meat that the infringers tried to carry across border was found in their cars.
The third International Conference on Tourism "Bulgaria Dream Area" will take place at Sofia's Sheraton Hotel on January 8 and 9 next year, it became clear at Monday's meeting of the conference's Program Council. Its members gathered to discuss the forthc
In a raid at Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit Monday US forces attacked dozens of suspected guerrilla positions, killing six alleged insurgents and capturing others, officials have said. Meanwhile, in Baghdad troops continue their biggest-ever hunt for
There are some police officers in Bulgaria who were proved to have been linked to organized crime groups, the country's Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov said Monday after a meeting with Chief Prosecutor Nikola Filchev. The minister pledged that those pol
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