Argentina's decision to suspend payments on its hefty debt failed to surprise most investors on Monday, and their attention shifted to how the new president can end a grueling recession that sparked his predecessor's resignation.
Afghanistan's new leader, Hamid Karzai, turned 44 on Monday, facing the daunting task of rebuilding a failed state in which his authority on the ground barely reaches beyond the capital Kabul.
Nigeria's justice minister was shot and killed by one of several unidentified attackers who broke into his home in the southeastern city of Ibadan, government officials and family members said Monday.
In a new ultimatum, Israel said Monday it will only allow Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to attend Christmas Mass in Bethlehem if he arrests the assassins of an Israeli Cabinet minister by sundown.
In the evening of December 24, Bulgarian patriarch Maxim served an official liturgy to mark Christmas Eve. The liturgy took place in “Sveta Nedelya” church in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, expressed his condolences in a telegram to Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov on the death of seven teenagers killed in an accident at the “Indigo” club in Sofia . "I learned with deep regret about
2 142 entertainment places have been checked for two days by the Police was announced at a briefing of the Police National Service on December 24. Special attention was paid to the admission regime, the security, the guards and the protection when many pe
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet on Monday approved a budget plan for the next fiscal year aimed at tightening Japan's drooping fiscal belt, despite calls already emerging for extra spending to rescue the economy. The government's draft budget f
Authorities are trying to determine the identity and motives of a man overpowered aboard an American Airlines flight, a day after the plane was diverted to Boston's Logan International Airport. Passengers and crewmembers subdued the man December 22 on the
“I prayed for the dead children, but naturally, most of all for their parents, because what they are going through is a nightmare,” Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg told journalists before his departure for Madrid on December 23. He underlined that the t
Three people were killed and twenty more were injured in an accident on the road Sofia-Burgas, five kilometers off Karnobat, in the direction of Sliven. A bus, heading from the Black Sea coast resort of Sunny Beach to Sofia, crashed into a vehicle carryin
Four disco clubs in the capital Sofia were sealed after inspections of the authorities. Inspections of more than 170 places of entertainment were conducted during the night.
“It was hard for me to imagine this was the first time in three years these people went out to a green lawn, “ Foreign Minister Passy said for National Private Television bTV, after he returned from Libya. During his official visit there the six Bulgarian
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Vratsa fertilizer plant Chimko suffered an estimated USD 4,000 from frozen installations after the recent plunge in temparatures, representatives of the plant said. The amount of fuel provided by Bulgargas has proved to be insufficient for the protection
Seif al-Islam, head of the Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations and son of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, arranged the permission for letting the medics outdoors for the first time in three years at the request of Bulgarian Foreig
Christmas (Koleda in Bulgarian) is one of the biggest Christian holidays in Bulgaria. Christmas and New Year festivities begin from Ignazhden, the day of St.
Australia Many Australians celebrate Christmas outdoors.
Friends and relatives of the children who died in the stampede at Sofia disco club Indigo on December 21 unequivocally rejected the suggestion for a collective funeral ceremony. One of the victims, 14-year-old Madlena Nikolova, was buried on December 23.
BY Monique Geiss Today, Lora’s name and face may not strike a chord immediately.
The Bulgarian Yogurt is now a Protected Designation of Origin in the EU
Bulgaria is in the Top 25 Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves
