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Bulgaria joined Italy in seeking answers from Washington after one of its soldiers was shot dead in a US "friendly fire" incident in Iraq, on the same day US forces killed an Italian secret agent rescuing a hostage in the country.

Bulgarian will decide later this month whether it will keep its troops in Iraq until the end of 2005, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov said after the eighth Bulgarian soldier was killed there on Friday.

Sevlievo in central Bulgaria, the lowest recorded here since a cold front struck Europe late last month.

Snow storms and high winds brought chaos to eastern regions of Bulgaria and Romania prompting authorities to call a state of emergency in at least six Bulgarian regions.

The Bulgarian parliament voted to remove from office its speaker, a member of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg's centre-right party, as the government is set to face a no-confidence motion next week.

Bulgarian police busted a forgery base in a Sofia neighbourhood and seized the first counterfeit Iraqi dinar bill ever found in the world, Interior Ministry General Secretary Boiko Borissov revealed.

Eight former communist countries in central and eastern Europe pledged to improve the plight of gypsies, or Roma, the continent's youngest, biggest and poorest minority, within 10 years.

Heavy snowfall in Bulgaria has forced authorities to call a state of emergency in the country's northeastern Silistra region, the country's citizen protection agency revealed.

Ten Libyan police officers accused of torturing five Bulgarian nurses into confessing they had given children AIDS-tainted blood are to go on trial in Libya in March, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said.

Bulgarian parliament speaker Ognian Guerdjikov called on European Union legislatures to help save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a scandal over AIDS-tainted blood.

A resident of the Black Sea city of Varna reportedly launched a protest against a newly introduced toll system which requires that drivers pay to use the road to the city cemetery.

Libya's parliament has called for the heaviest possible punishment for those responsible for an AIDS epidemic at a hospital in which nearly 400 children were infected, the state news agency JANA said.

NATO's top commander in Europe, General James Jones, said he would recommend "four or five" military bases in Bulgaria to the US Congress as possible choices for stationing troops in central Europe.

US General James Jones, NATO's supreme allied commander, is to visit Bulgarian military bases in line to be used for deploying US forces, the defense ministry said in a statement.

Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Bulgaria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Morocco next week for meetings on pan-European, NATO and Middle East reform issues in what may be his final trip abroad as the top US diplomat, the State Department announced.

GSM mobile phone network, ringing in the new service by phoning from Sofia to a landline in Bourgas on the Black Sea.

A Bulgarian archeologist has discovered a 9,000-year-old human skeleton and the remains of a farm dwelling from the same period, the Standard newspaper reported.

Bulgartabac as part of the privatisation in chunks of the Bulgarian tobacco firm.

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rattled eastern Romania's Vrancea region late Wednesday and was also felt in the country's capital Bucharest, the national seismological institute said.

A team of Bulgarian archeologists announced that they had unearthed a large, intact Thracian mausoleum dating back from the fifth century B.C.

President George W. Bush joined a chorus of US-allied leaders in defending the Iraq war from UN chief Kofi Annan's charge that it was illegal.

A Bulgarian archeological team has discovered a rare mask of massive gold, apparently depicting an ancient Thracian king, the chief of the team said.

ARD production, in association with Eurimages, National Film Center Bulgaria.

The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff General Richard Myers thanked Bulgaria for its "sacrifices" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A car bomb exploded near a US convoy in Baghdad wounding six people, including an American soldier.

A car bomb exploded near a US convoy in Baghdad wounding six people, including an American soldier, as a senior Sunni cleric threatened a holy war against US forces in Iraq unless they leave.

Bulgaria said that it would keep its troops in Iraq just hours after the beheading of a Bulgarian civilian, but admitted it was powerless in face of a threat to kill a second hostage by the end of the day.

Bulgaria said that it would keep its military contingent in Iraq despite the beheading by kidnappers of a Bulgarian civilian in Iraq.

The Bulgarian government confirmed that one of two Bulgarian nationals being held hostage in Iraq has been executed.

A dark veil hung over the fate of three lorry drivers from the Philippines and Bulgaria held hostage in Iraq as deadlines for their execution expired without word from their abductors.

The Bulgarian government said it had learnt from a reliable source that two Bulgarian truck drivers held hostage in Iraq by Al-Qaeda-linked operatives who threatened to execute them are still alive.

Five Iraqis were killed in a spate of attacks and insurgents again targeted a gas pipeline near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, as Iraq's interim government confronted a growing hostage crisis.

Five Iraqis, including two suspected gang members, were killed in a spate of attacks, while insurgents again targeted a gas pipeline near the northern oil city of Kirkuk and the interim government confronted a growing hostage crisis.

Iraq's government is working with US-led troops to secure the release of four foreign lorry drivers -- two Bulgarians, a Filipino and an Egyptian -- as fears over their safety grow.

Bulgaria vowed not to give in to blackmail after a group linked to Al-Qaeda threatened to kill two Bulgarians taken hostage in Iraq, but said it was trying to contact the kidnappers to appeal to them.

A hostage drama snared Iraq, with a Filipino threatened with beheading and two Bulgarians reportedly snatched, as clerics attacked the government for colluding with its former US-led occupiers.

Plamen Markov became the sixth coach to leave his post following a failed Euro 2004 campaign when he announced he had rejected a new contract from the Bulgarian federation.

Bulgaria to work more closely with local officials to fight organized crime and terrorism, the US ambassador to Sofia said Friday.

Bulgaria can still reach the Euro 2004 quarter-finals if they play a whole match the way they played the first-half against Sweden, their coach Plamen Markov defiantly claimed.

Fears are growing that a political struggle in Bulgaria over the decommissioning of aging reactors at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant on the Danube River may delay or derail Bulgaria's European Union accession.

Henrik Larsson scored a quick-fire double to help fire Sweden to a 5-0 win over Bulgaria that will have piled the pressure on to Euro 2004 group C rivals Denmark and Italy.

A cosmic single currency for use in financial transactions between Earthlings and extra-terrestrial civilizations has been unveiled at a conference on unidentified flying objects here.

At the obesity management clinic in the centre of Prague, specialist Doctor Marie Kunesova is halfway through her day's patients.

Twenty-four Bulgarian dancing bears, which served as breadwinners for Gypsy families, are being returned to the wild in the country's southeastern Rila mountains, an Austrian animal protection group said.

Libya is refusing to grant exit visas to five Bulgarian doctors and a Bulgarian nurse, a week after five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death for spreading AIDS in a hospital, the Bulgarian ambassador in Tripoli said.

Bulgaria said it will appeal death sentences handed down by a Libyan court on five Bulgarian nurses found guilty of infecting hundreds of children with AIDS, a verdict which could undermine Libya's improving ties with the West.

The United States denounced as "unacceptable" the convictions and death sentences handed down by a Libyan court against five Bulgarian medical workers and a Palestinian doctor who had been accused of intentionally spreading the AIDS virus.

A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian women nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad after convicting them of deliberately spreading AIDS in a children's hospital, sparking fierce reactions to a verdict that could damage Libya's improving ties with the West.

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death by a Libyan court over the death from AIDS of children in a hospital, according to the official verdict obtained by AFP.

A Libyan court condemned six Bulgarians and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad after convicting them of deliberately spreading AIDS in a children's hospital, a verdict which could damage Libya's improving ties with the West.

A Libyan court sentenced to death six Bulgarian health workers and a Palestinian doctor convicted of spreading AIDS in a children's hospital.

The United States is pressing Libya for the release of six Bulgarians and a Palestinian on trial potentially for their lives for allegedly intentionally spreading the AIDS virus at a hospital in Benghazi, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Bulgaria announced that it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace two Soviet-era reactors at its Kozloduy facility which the European Union wants shut down by 2006.

A Bulgarian soldier was killed and 10 other people wounded in this central Iraqi city after Shiite militiamen ambushed a convoy of Bulgarian troops of the US-led coalition, officials said.

A Bulgarian soldier died after being shot in an ambush in the Iraqi holy Shiite city of Karbala, a Bulgarian correspondent reported from the town.

Relatives of Bulgaria's troops in Iraq asked President Georgy Parvanov to move the men from the strife-torn holy city of Karbala to a "safer place" if fighting there flared again.

PRAGUE How many words does it take to make a Czech film service producer start twitching?

Half of all Bulgarians believe in black magic, telepathy and the ability to read the future in dreams, according to the results of a survey published.

English giants Liverpool gave embattled manager Gerard Houllier reason to smile as they eased into the fourth round of the UEFA Cup after a 4-2 victory in their third round second leg match with Levski Sofia to win 6-2 overall.

Peter Kurpick vividly remembers his first trip to Bulgaria. Traveling into Sofia from the airport two years ago, the executive with German software giant SAP breathed air thick with coal smoke and saw laundry hanging from buildings on dirty, snow-covered streets.

Arena multiplex, which opened on the west side of the capital of Sofia in April 2003.

Steven Gerrard and Harry Kewell sunk Levski Sofia with two superb strikes as Liverpool beat the Bulgarians 2-0 in their UEFA Cup third round, first leg tie to lift the pressure on beleaguered manager Gerard Houllier.

Liverpool have won four European Cups but the future of embattled manager Gerard Houllier could hinge on the third round tie against Bulgarian minnows Levski Sofia in the less prestigious UEFA Cup.

Goals without means are like bread without flour, or so the Spanish proverb goes.

Advent, represented by its Austrian subsidiary Viva Ventures, signed a contract which also bound it to investing 700 million euros in BTC over the next five years.

The US investment group Advent International signed a contract to buy 65 percent of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, after several delays.

Prosecutors in Libya called for the death sentence for seven health workers, six Bulgarian and one Palestinian, accused of spreading AIDS in a children's hospital in the northern Libyan town of Benghazi, Bulgarian radio reported.

Bulgaria began renewing its 480-strong contingent supporting the US-led occupation force in Iraq, after losing five men in a suicide bomb attack last month that caused public soul-searching among its military.

Libyan experts rejected testimony by a French specialist blaming poor hygiene for the outbreak of an AIDS epidemic in a Libyan hospital which foreign medical staff stand accused of spreading, Bulgarian radio reported.

One Iraqi was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb hit a US convoy in Baghdad as the US-led coalition went on alert for renewed attacks timed for the New Year holiday.

One Iraqi was killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb hit a US convoy in Baghdad as the bodies of five Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers slain in attacks in Iraq arrived home.

Polish forces detained five men suspected of taking part in the assault on Karbala which killed 19 and injured at least 194 as Bulgaria sent a minister to Iraq to repatriate the bodies of its soldiers slain in the worst bloodshed since Saddam Hussein's capture.

Two US soldiers and two Iraqi children were killed in a new outburst of violence in Iraq as the country's US-imposed interim government prepared for free trade talks with its Gulf neighbours.

A bomb blast killed a US soldier and two Iraqi children in Baghdad, a day after a rebel assault left 12 Iraqis and seven coalition soldiers dead and scores wounded in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Rebels killed six coalition soldiers, seven Iraqis and wounded 129 others with a barrage of mortars, machine-gun fire and a suicide car bomb in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Numerous multinational companies-ranging from U.S. Steel Corp.

An FX Cinema release of a Pastor, Naftex, Bulgarian National Television production, with participation of Bulgarian National Film Centre.

Executive producer, Andrey Karanikolov. Directed, written by Krasimir Krumov.

A Bulgarian National Television presentation of a Profilm production.

A Kulev Film Prod., Boyana Film, Bulgarian National Television production.

A Niki Film production, in association with Bulgarian National Television, Boyana Film.

Produced by Adela Peeva. Co-producer, Paul Pauwels. Directed, written by Adela Peeva.

Produced, directed by Ljubisa Samardzic. Screenplay, Nikola Pejakovic.

Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia are hosting national film festivals, and three of these fests are sharing movie prints for screenings and filmmakers for seminars.

Actually, I'm way ahead of you in the toasting department. About an hour ago, I cracked open a bottle of Chateau Boriana 2000, a little merlot out of the Tracian Valley that I like to call the "rascal of the vineyard." I started getting into Bulgarian wines a few weeks ago, when the French started opposing us in the United Nations Security Council.

BUDAPEST While the world prepares for conflict in Iraq, Bulgarian TV is turning war-mongering into ratings.

Things pick up in Hall 4, designed to show how the Bulgarian Church kept national culture alive during five centuries of Ottoman rule, which whisks you through the various schools of icon painting which flourished in rural Bulgaria throughout the Ottoman period, and contains several examples of the frescos that decorated Bulgarian monasteries.

On a September evening in 1946, Simeon II, the 9-year-old boy king of Bulgaria, was hustled by the communist authorities onto a train and into a life of exile.

As a gaggle of Yankee sightseers pile out into the sunshine at the end of their guided tour of Sofia's Alexandar Nevski cathedral, a young souvenir vendor rubs his hands.

Compilations CD - Anthologie de la Musique Bulgare Le Chant du Monde, France Between 1977 and 1983, Belgian folklorist Herman Vuylsteke made a series of trips to Bulgaria, where he collected a vast amount of material from village musicians all over the country.

Through much of the Clinton administration, the White House has been dogged by allegations of dubious campaign contributions from overseas.

To the Western eye, Macedonia can seem to be a mass of contrasts and contradictions.

Decades after being run out of their homelands, Eastern Europe's royals--some of them, at least--are being asked back.