Bulgarian rightist party Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) is getting ready to file a new non-confidence vote against the Cabinet, deputy chair of the party, Ekaterina Mihailova has announced. According to Mihailova, the rightist have started to prepare for the vote as the EU report about Bulgari...

The Bulgarian government is going to start a procedure for the construction of a new thermal power plant unit as part of the Maritza Iztok 1 thermal plant complex, which is owned by the US company AES. The government made the decision for the construction of the new plant of about 600-700 MW in Ju...

The extreme nationalist Bulgarian National Union is planning to stage a "Week of Intolerance" in response to a gay parade planned to take place in Sofia on June 28. The news was announced by the leader of the formation Boyan Rasate on Sunday who also stated that the homosexuals in Bulgaria enjoyed...

Mustafa Alish Hadji was re-elected Bulgarian Chief Mufti at an extraordinary National Muslim Conference in Sofia on Saturday. The conference was organized after the Supreme Cassation Court declared the mufti elections, held in 2005 invalid. Then, Hadji was supported by the majority of 1400 partici...

The dead body of an elderly woman was found in the center of Sofia near the bed of Vladayska River that crosses the city on Saturday. According to immediate reports the victim drowned. There are no signs of violence on the body, police said. The identity of the woman has not been established yet...

When a woman got married she put a shoebox in the closet and told her husband not to open it. After over 50 years of marriage she was dying and told him to open the box. When he opened it there were 2 doilies and USD 85,000. He asked why this was in the box. She replied: "When I got married my moth...

The last, 28th meeting of George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin as Presidents of the USA and Russia took place Sunday in the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi in an atmosphere of personal respect but also of intransigence on key political issues such as the missile defense in Europe. The two did agree on...

A businessman, head of one of the biggest companies in the Bulgarian energy sector, has been found dead at a residential building in the capital Sofia. Borislav Georgiev, 41, was executive director of Atomenergoremont, the company that maintained the reactors of the atomic power station in Kozlodu...

Zimbabwe court is to rule Monday on whether to order the release of delayed presidential election results, which will show whether Robert Mugabe, ruling since 1987, will remain in power. On Sunday the opposition demanded for an immediate release of the final tally with candidate Morgan Tsangvirai c...

Serbs from the southern parts of Kosovo should move to the north and eventually merge with Serbia, Former Russian FM Yevgeni Primakov said. " I am aware that some could criticize me for saying that the Serbs need to leave the central parts of Kosovo, but I believe that this could be a solution," Pr...