Bucharest, Romania News

A storm hit the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Thursday afternoon, with 70 km per our winds ripping out roofs and trees, and injuring 17 persons.

FECNE Nuclear Components, a Bucharest-based plant controlled by Italy's Walter Tosto Group, will supply three separators to Russia's gas producer Gazprom to be fitted in the world's biggest gas compression station that is under construction in Russia in a deal... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already don't have one.

Storm International, a casino management company, held an annual meeting with upper management, where the operational results for the year 2012 were presented by Darren Keane, CEO of Storm International.

A photo dated July 22, 2012, shows then-suspended Romanian President Traian Basescu gesturing during a media briefing in Bucharest, Romania.

Communicating through books is an idea that separates humanity from everything else in nature.

Victor Ponta participated at the Extraordinary Summit of the European Council in Brussels yesterday, under a mandate assigned by President Traian Basescu.

Romanian League 1 club FC Rapid Bucuresti have been fined Euro 100,000 and are excluded from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which the club would qualify in the next three seasons , the UEFA Club Financial Control Body decided on Wednesday, according to uefa.com. The UEFA Club Financial Control Body adjudicatory chamber has met ... (more)

They are actually being featured on the Freshman of MTV U. The music video was inspired by director Anton Octavian who is living and working in Bucharest, Romania.

Unlike the ADR growth at the end of 2012, 2013 is showing all growth coming from occupancy, which increased modestly 1.6 percent to 60.4 percent.

Former Romanian MEP George Becali has been sentenced to three years in prison for abuse of power in connection with a land exchange deal with the Romanian Defence Ministry 15 years ago.

Former Romanian Justice Minister Monica Macovei is among those advocating judicial reforms in the wake of the corruption sentence against former senator Catalin Voicu.

The governments of Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey adopted Tuesday a joint declaration stressing the potential of Nabucco to supply the energy markets of the Western Balkans and the Visegrad group countries at the fifth Nabucco Committee meeting in Bucharest.

The prime minister of Romania this week instructed authorities to investigate an apparent anti-Semitic assault on a journalist in Bucharest.

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mugur Isarescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta are the personalities with the highest confidence among Romanians, being also seen as best choices for president of Romania, according to a poll done by INSCOP Research in 20-28 April, quoted by rtv.net. According to the opinion poll, the first place in ... (more)

Romania's agricultural potential, more often than not unexploited, needs a long-terms strategy.

She also later co-authored a cookbook, which includes recipes for jellied fish heads and her father's favorite, cod soup.

Got 48 hours to explore Romania's capital and its eclectic mix of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery, 20th century totalitarian megalomania and buzzing nightlife? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors map the city's shift from one of Europe's most progressive urban centres at the start of the 20th century to a chaotic ... (more)

Valentin Boanta, sitting in his jail cell, proudly explains the device he has invented which, he says, could make the world's ATMs impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals like himself.

Anca, a former Romanian sex slave, hides her face behind a poster in Bucharest in this December 1, 2006 file picture.

In this photo taken on April 4, 2013, Romanian artist Vasile Muresan, known as Murivale poses on one of his paintings in a parking lot, in Bucharest, Romania.