Bulgaria's volleyball junior lost 0-3 the match against Serbia and Montenegro at the World Junior Championship for youngsters under 21 that takes place in Iran. In a match from the D group of the championship, the Bulgarians showed some vigour in the thi
Thousands of people in Washington have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of the "I have a dream" speech made by the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King. On 28 August 1963 he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his speech to
Iran has demanded an apology from the UK Government over the arrest of its former ambassador to Buenos Aires on terrorism charges. President Mohammad Khatami escalated the diplomatic row with Argentina and the UK in remarks on Iranian state radio.
The delegation led by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy will not meet with the Bulgarian peacekeeping unit while on a visit to Iraq. This is what the minister himself said before his departure on Sunday for Jordan which is his first stop before th
Young socialists wrote a letter to Sofia's future mayor on Sunday voicing concerns about the city as wide ranging as stray dogs and parking problems. The letter was over 100m long and spread across the square in front the National Palace of Culture.
Bulgaria's Finance Minister Milen Velchev affirmed the true motives behind his resignation were those announced publicly. In his first interview following the withdrawal of his resignation on Wednesday, he insisted a dispute over the country's fiscal poli
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Bulgaria's currency board is not endangered, the resident representative of the International Monetary Fund, Pirita Sorsa, told the Bulgarian National Radio. The envoy is to leave the country on Tuesday following the end of her tenure.
Former priest John Geoghan, a convicted child molester at the center of the sex abuse scandal that shook the Catholic church nationwide, died after apparently being strangled by a fellow inmate convicted of murder, authorities said. Geoghan, 68, was attac
Bulgaria's best gymnast Jordan Jovtchev won a gold medal from the Individual Event Finals at the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California, on Saturday.
Towering flames shooting up 400 feet have destroyed more than 100 houses and forced about 30,000 residents from their homes as forest fires swept through parts of this western Canadian city, officials said Saturday. "Firefighters' rough estimates, they th
A unique ancient workshop for bone articles which had no parallel in antique Thrace was unearthed in the vicinity of village Sveshtari in northeast Bulgaria which is famous for the royal tomb discovered there a few years ago.
A hundred-page booklet targeting Bulgarian travellers will be circulated at all border checkpoints by the Foreign Ministry. The copies have already been printed and will be distributed through the Interior Ministry and the Border Police service by the end
The number of criminal rings tackling human traffic on the Balkans constantly increases and their victims are usually Bulgarian, Romanian and Moldavian women. This is what Greek daily To Vima reveals in an article on the traffic in prostitutes.
The body of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN special envoy killed in a truck bomb in Iraq, has arrived in his native Brazil. A Brazilian military aircraft brought the body to his home city of Rio de Janeiro where a memorial service has been organised at the
Rescuers in the Russian Far East have confirmed the death of the governor of Sakhalin in a helicopter crash. The body of Igor Farkhutdinov was found along with those of 19 others strewn among the remains of the Mi-8 which went missing on Wednesday and the
About 20 people have been killed in an explosion which destroyed a Brazilian space rocket just days before its scheduled launch, military officials have said. A spokesman for the Alcantara base in the north-eastern state of Maranhao said no wounded had be
The first privately run Internet caf? opened doors in postwar Tikrit, Iraq. During Saddam Hussein's reign, access to the Internet was restricted and monitored, but Iraqis with the help of the US military can now freely browse without fear of being control
Five Romanian pickpockets were arrested in Sofia on Saturday. A woman and two men from Bucharest were nabbed as they stole 120 euros and the same ammount in levs from at a tram station.
A church was inaugurated at the beginning of the centennial commemoration service of the Ilinden-Preobarzhenie uprising at historic site Petrova Niva in southwest Bulgaria. The country's President Georgi Parvanov headed the service, which commemorated the
Bulgaria's Privatization Agency offers the majority package of state-owned company Research and Extraction of Petroleum and Gas-Pleven as well as part of the capital in the two pools Zlatni Pyasatsi (Golden Sands) and Energetika II.
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