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Bulgaria's cellular phone operators M-Tel and GloBul are launching Saturday a phone number, where callers may donate money for tsunami-hit Southeast Asia by sending SMS messages.

Sports: 7 January 2005, Friday. Bulgaria's Levski football club signed Friday Croatian defender Igor Tomasic for a year and a haft, with an option to extend it with another year.

Anna Zarkova is an investigative journalist who was attacked with acid six years ago for covering organized crime, including forced prostitution and trafficking networks in Bulgaria.

Millions of mice have invaded Bulgaria's northeastern wheat belt region of Dobrudzha and are threatening to turn it into a desert by devastating next year's grain crops, now sprouting in the fields.

Business: 3 January 2005, Monday. The deadline expires for potential investors to apply for the sale of 75% in the state defence plant Terem, the Bulgarian Privatization Agency reminded.

Marsaxlokk are in the process of finalising their selection of a new foreign trio for the rest of the season.

Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko claimed Monday victory in Ukraine's presidential election re-run and said his country was heading for a new political era of democratic changes and rapprochement with the ...

Politics: 1 January 2005, Saturday. Bulgarian alpinists Doichin Vassilev and Lyubomir Ivanov have topped the 1111m Zograph Peak on the Antarctic island of Livingston.

Digigram , a leader in innovative digital audio network solutions, announced the appointment of five new European distributors.

German-Russian gas firm Wingas has taken over Britain's largest onshore gas field Saltfleetby for ?44 million ($85.72 million) with a view to use it for gas storage in the future, it said Tuesday.

Ministry of Finance will present results from tenders under National Programme PHARE 2002 and PHARE-Cross Border Co-operation 2002.

Lifestyle: 19 December 2004, Sunday. The rock monastic complex near the village of Ivanovo, which is under the protection of UNESCO, is now open for tourists after staying inaccessible for years because of the ...

The recent trip to Europe by Secretary of State Colin Powell was an opportunity to show the importance the United States places on strengthening Euro-Atlantic relations, State Department deputy spokesman Adam ...

Bulgarian men's and women's national basketball team players Todor Stoykov and Theodora Petrova were voted Bulgaria's best basketball players of this year Thursday, state radio said.

Russia has supplied Vietnam with four Su-30MK2 multifunctional jet fighters, a top official at aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi said Monday.

RAO UES is in list of potential bidders for three coal power plants of Bulgaria (Varna, Bobobdope, Rusa), Bulgarian privatization agency said.

Business: 17 December 2004, Friday. A new franchise boutique of the world famous porcelain Rosenthal has opened doors in Sofia.

As the first signs of winter push into the U.S. Northeast, American researchers have some good news for fair weather fans - spring is coming earlier than it used to.

Varna-based Grand Hotel Varna AD said Wednesday it would start a procedure to change the face value of its shares listed at the Sofia Stock Exchange to match the requirements of Bulgarian legislation on ...

Business: 14 December 2004, Tuesday. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its BB long-term issuer credit rating to the City of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria's sixth-largest city (foreign currency ...

Big idea: Develops in-motion antennas for moving vehicles that provide mobile access to satellite television, music programming and broadband Internet.

Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the ...

German-U.S. auto maker Daimler Chrysler on Monday delivered the first 32-piece batch of a total of 12, 900 army vehicles it has committed to supply for new NATO member Bulgaria in a $316 million deal signed ...

The OSCE mission is expected to visit the occupied lands of Azerbaijan with a view to scrutinizing illegal settlement of Armenians.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, DEC. 7, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- The Holy See regards terrorism as the first concern on the international scene, and says its defeat calls for an understanding of the causes.

The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has announced a $25 million investment in corporate facilities for Melrose Resources plc to support its oil and gas ...

LINZ, AUSTRIA.- The O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Casino Luxembourg and Rooseum Malmo host the first major retrospective of the Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov.

Business: 3 December 2004, Friday. Bulgaria and the Eastern Europe have gained the interest of the international movie producers with its excellent conditions for creating major productions, Sean Hinton, ...

It was quite an operation, the way it came together. In December 2002, U.S. Customs agents intercepted $8 million in counterfeit checks in two FedEx packages bound for Israel.

Bulgaria's commercial banks' Jan.-Oct. net profit increased to BGN366.1 million from BGN322.5 million in the same period a year ago, the online financial news portal Investor.bg reported Thursday.

Business: 25 November 2004, Thursday. Sofia City Court is to register next week an arm company of gas supplier Bulgargas, to be named Bulgartel, projected to become the second largest telecommunication operator ...

Bulgaria has paved the way for the return of priceless religious relics which were removed from monasteries in Macedonia and Thrace during World War I. The first step toward meeting the longstanding demand of ...

Issued Capital: 29.9 million common shares Stock Exchange TSX Venture Exchange Symbol: EOX VANCOUVER, Nov.

Lifestyle: 15 November 2004, Monday. A collection of some 150 works of art that will adorn the new office of the US Embassy in Sofia was exhibited on Monday.

Whitbread announced in May that it was putting the UK's entire stock of 11 Courtyard by Marriott hotels up for sale.

He misses the taste of Skippy smooth peanut butter, American-made ketchup and pancake syrup, but James Mayers enjoys slatko smeared on French toast.

Lifestyle: 9 November 2004, Tuesday. Bulgarian actor Yasen Peyankov stars in the newest movie of Robert Altman The Company that will be presented in Sofia during the Kinomania fest.

Bulgaria has declared a state of disaster around its Black Sea port of Bourgas because of an infestation of millions of mice.

Bulgarian private gas distributor Overgas Inc AD nine months net revenues rose 1800% on the year to leva (BGN)181.2 million from BGN9.97 million, the company said Monday.

Exclusive Interview: 12 November 2004, Friday. Prof. Flavio Delbono took office as Vice President of Italy's Emilia Romagna region in February 2003, retaining his position as Councillor to Finance, ...

President Georgi Purvanov decorated Patriarch Maksim with the Order of the Balkan Range - First Class at an official ceremony.

Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev started his three-day official visit to Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday on the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Nicolay Svinarov.

Politics: 26 October 2004, Tuesday. Cameras of a jewelry shop have taped the murder of alleged Bulgarian mobster Dmitrii Minev, but offered police no clues about the murderer.

While David Kingsley struggled to help his friends bail out of a crippled B-17 bomber being chased by German fighters, Bulgarian villagers on the ground watched the action from their fields and vineyards.

Steve Wellman replaced Michael Galea in Horst Heese's 18-man squad for Bulgaria after the Birkirkara striker pulled out of the group with a knee injury.

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Lifestyle: 29 September 2004, Wednesday. Alex Ligertwood, the voice of some of Carlos Santana's biggest hits, will stage a major concert in Sofia.

Jeff Farley of the Obscure Artifacts FX company recently returned from Sofia, Bulgaria, where he and associate Christopher Bergschneider handled the creature and makeup work for the long-awaited PUPPETMASTER ...

BULGARIAN archaeologists have unearthed a 2300-year old bronze head depicting an ancient Thracian ruler in a find they called unique for the era, a newspaper reported today.

Ivo has disappeared. So has Venci, his petite girlfriend. Ilian's gone too, as is his younger brother, Krasi.

Business: 9 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria's Kamenitza AD reported nearly 1 million hectolitres of beer output for the first eight months of 2004, up by 15% in comparison with the same period last year.

The seven forest rangers were patrolling their region south of Sofia when they came across a group of Gypsies they suspected of illegal logging.

Rafata Jabri, a Jordanian-born pastry chef in Oak Bluffs, knows all about turning flour, butter, sugar and eggs into delectable treats, but some other ingredients in the bakery are driving him a little crazy - ...

Lifestyle: 29 August 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's rhythmic twin graces Vladislava and Galina Tancheva starred in the party last night organized to mark the historic Olympic victory of the group on Saturday.

U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson is waiting in Tripoli for a meeting with Libyan officials to discuss the north African nation's role in the crisis in Sudan.

The most recent mission rotating Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian combat forces to and from the Polish-led sector in Iraq landed at Strachowice Air Base here Aug.

US and Iraqi forces are preparing for major assaults on Shiite militia positions in the holy city ofNajaf, where fierce fighting has been persisting for a seventh straight day, US military said on Wednesday.

Insider notes from United Press International for Aug. 9: Many people have talked of the impact of the media on events in Iraq; the interim government has just banned al-Jazeera from Baghdad for 30 days on the ...

The insurgent group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi kidnapped a Somali truck driver in Iraq and threatened to behead him if his Kuwaiti company doesn't stop working there, according to a videotape ...

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo was under growing pressure Monday to give in to the demands of Islamic terrorists who are threatening to kill a Filipino hostage unless she withdraws a small contingent of ...