A Spanish airliner made an emergency landing at Lisbon international airport in the early hours of Friday after the cabin filled with smoke, forcing the airport to close for four hours, an airport official said. The Iberia aircraft, an Airbus A340, was fl
UN employees were preparing to make an historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, the online iafrica.com edition reported, quoted by AFP.
Balkancar Holding employees gathered Friday for the fourth time in front of the Parliament building in Sofia to demand their unpaid salaries and benefits.
Sweden's Olympic Gold medallist Mikael Ljungberg has died at the age of 34, with media saying he had taken his own life. Ljungberg won a gold medal for Sweden in the 213-pound Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 2000 Olympic Games.
Bulgarian Telecommunications Company with US participation CableTel presented Thursday its new Triple-Play service in Sofia.
Bulgaria marks Friday a special holiday dedicated to the Army's Land Forces. The units mark the event with an Open Doors Day, while a special concert will take place at the Bulgarian Army Theatre in Sofia.
Moody's raised the foreign currency deposit ratings of DSK Bank from Ba3/NP to Ba1/NP. The outlook is positive.
Over 13,000 citizens of Bulgarian town of Shumen have participated in a poll about their love life, conducted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
A team of doctors has carried out the first liver transplant in Sofia's Lozenets hospital.
Teachers from more than 1,800 Bulgarian schools joined Friday the effective strike organised by Bulgarian trade unions.
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US troops claim to have found the main headquarters of the insurgent group headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah. In video shot by an embedded CNN cameraman, soldiers walked through an imposing building with concrete columns and w
The teenage sniper, who wounded five children on their way out of a Sofia school on Tuesday, has been arrested. I don't know the wounded kids, said the eighteen-year-old assaulter making full confessions.
Czech state-run utility company CEZ inked on Friday a deal to buy 67% in three Bulgarian power distributors for EUR 281.5 M.
A serious blackout plunged the central and southern part of Madrid into darkness following a fire at a transformer substation on Thursday. The blackout left 250,000 residents without electricity and threw public transport into chaos after part of the subw
More than 100 viruses can cause colds, the world's most common illness, so few people escape being exposed to at least one of them.
The Smart 1 lunar probe has entered into orbit around the Moon. Europe has arrived at the Moon, we're in lunar orbit, said Professor David Southwood, director of science for the European Space Agency (Esa).
Over 2,000 people attended a meeting of the rightist party Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB). The meeting was organized on the occasion of the November 18, 1989 meeting that took place in Sofia.
The Bulgarian government appointed Governor Bob Miller Bulgaria's Honorary Consul for Nevada, US. Bob Miller was Nevada Governor for ten years (1989-1999), longer than any man in the state's history.
Four companies- Overgas Inc, Microsoft, AstraZeneca and Access Clinics- swept the annual awards for socially responsible business handed out by the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) at a ceremony in Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan on Thursday.
UK Embassy in Sofia and the British Council joined the initiative of the Royal Netherlands Embassy to decorate the capital with poems in different languages. The first poem in "Poetry on the Walls" project - by Dutch Jan Hanlo - marked the assuming of th
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