US Secretary of State Colin Powell stood up for the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya. Powell and Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Shalgam met on Thursday in what US officials said was the first such U.
The Bulgarian bus that plunged into the Lim river killing twelve children did not have any technical malfunctions, officials from the Bulgarian National Investigation said. That was announced after the bus underwent seven different technical tests.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry is planning a new change of the ID cards and passports.
Bulgarian opera prima Raina Kabaivanska auditioned the candidates for her master class. More than 56 talents from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Italy and Argentina have declared their willingness to join Kabaivanska's clas
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy will meet Germany's Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer during the meetings of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly. Just a day earlier Bulgaria's foreign minister addressed the General Assembly.
Bulgaria's six Olympic bronze winners in rhythmic gymnastics were selected the team of August in the traditional ranking by local sports media sections. The charming team of Eleonora Kezhova, Zhanet Ilieva, twins Galina and Vladislava Tancheva, Zornitsa
The heavy weightlifter Ivan Stoitsov (77kg) swept the Gold medal in the European Weightlifting Championship for youths held in the coastal city of Burgas. The young talent garnered the winning score of 337.
The best Bulgarian novel published in 2003 will be selected from six short-listed authors rivaling for a prize of USD 10,000 and a translation in English language. The works of Hristo Karastoyanov (Utopia: The Other Way to Hell), Stefan Kisyov (The Execu
The best beer draughter from a contest held in a popular bar in downtown Sofia already packs his luggage for a trip in Belgium. In a hot rivalry with actors, producers, journalists, and in the presence of Belgium's Ambassador to Bulgaria Philippe Beke, t
A new sightseeing service around Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings, near the town of Kazanlak, is expected to kick off within days. Kossyo Zarev has told Bulgarian news agency the program envisages a Thracian-valley-round tour guided by an archeologist from
The International Road Transport Union awarded for the first time a high-rank official with its supreme sign Golden Star decorating Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg. The head of the ruling coalition government received the international recog
The entrance of an ancient sanctuary was revealed by the archeological expedition of Georgi Kitov, the discoverer compared to movie-hero Indiana Jones for his historic findings over the last couple of months. The Thracian sanctuary was found Friday in th
Residents of Brussels got the unique opportunity to take a closer look into Bulgarian language and letters on the Day of European Languages, September 24. Bulgarian mission in the EU capital has shown an exhibition dedicated to the Balkan language and vi
With the perspective of progressive decrease in Bulgarian population, health experts are discussing various ideas to fight the problem. Gynecologists have tabled a proposal that the state finances the in-vitro pregnancy, which would give a chance of havi
The SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange - Sofia slid by 4,78 points (0,82%) to 578,85 points on the back of falling Bulgartabac shares. The price of the tobacco giant shares went down by 4,34 %, reaching BGN 47,81.
Bulgaria is likely to prefer Russian-made to Canadian-produced units to put to operation in its second nuclear plant in Belene, according to the chief of the construction project Krassimir Nikolov. The US Parson consultants of the project has advised tha
Bulgaria's first commercial real estate expo opened doors in Sofia, bringing under the same roof bankers, entrepreneurs, investors and broker agencies. More than 70 Bulgarian companies display residential, administrative or commercial projects during the
The French tour operator Plein Van plans to invest USD 1 M in Bulgarian tourism to establish a Francophone club in the Albena resort, the investor.bg online edition informed quoting wmaker.
Ford is planning to open a local office in the northern Bulgarian town of Pleven, the company's Bulgarian representative has said. Karl-Heinz Pfohe has met with Pleven mayor Nayden Zelenogorski to discuss the possibility for the office to rise on municipa
The new head of the Bulgarian state television BNT Uliana Prumova was an anchor of the new emissions "Dnes" and "23" at the BNT and the BNT's Second Channel. Prumova, was editor of BNT's new emissions.
Bulgaria invited a tender for the concessions of airports at the Black Sea coast cities of Varna and Burgas. All candidate concessionaires for the airports will be required to deposit a EUR 300,000 bank guarantee and present an investment rating from an
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