Bulgaria News

A sand sculpture is displayed during the international sand sculptures festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, July, 2, 2009.

The leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms , Ahmed Dogan, has warned against "the playing of the ethnic card" in the Parliamentary Elections.

The impoverished population of this sleepy Bulgarian town faced a bizarre choice of candidates in Sunday's general election - suspected local crime bosses who are also town benefactors.

Simeon Saxe-Coburg, leader of the National Movement for Stability and Progress, , said Bulgaria must continue to integrate into the European Union.

Since communism collapsed 20 years ago, Bulgarians have been waiting for a saviour to rid the land of its plagues: corruption, nepotism and impunity for the powerful of the day.

A new populist right-ofcentre party led by Boyko Borisov, a former police officer and mayor of Sofia, is set to finish first in Bulgaria's general election tomorrow but will fail to win an outright majority, according to opinion polls.

According to the police, the crash happened after the German bus initiated a dangerous overtake , hit the Serbian bus.

UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has refused an appeal for a pardon by jailed football fan Michael Shields.

Rachev was allegedly shot, the police were informed of the incident at 12:31 pm Friday.

Among those who walked free from jail last month to campaign as candidates were the Galevi brothers - " a pair who were facing charges of racketeering and running a notorious organised crime gang.

The justice secretary, Jack Straw , today turned down an appeal for a pardon by Michael Shields, the Liverpool football fan who was jailed in Bulgaria for the attempted murder of a barman.

Bulgaria does not need a bailout aid agreement with the International Monetary Fund , local press reported on July 1, citing the Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski.

Bulgarian officials say 142 people running for parliamentary elections were alleged agents of the secret police while the communist regime was in place.

Some 130 kids have been poisoned by the food at a sea restaurant in the Sveti Vlas resort.

The fate of the dying steel mill "Kremikotvtzi" is to be decided by the Sofia City Court.

With less than a week before the general elections, pollsters in Bulgaria predict GERB will have a narrow win over BSP.

Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv now has a confirmed swin flu case. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency A 14-year-old boy is the first registered swine flu - A case in Bulgaria's second largest city, Plovdiv.

The arson was done, despite the presence of guards in the parking lot of the company that owned the vehicles.

A car with a man and a woman inside was set on fire by three unknown persons in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia on Friday night, the police reports.

Bulgarian Michael Jackson fans, shocked and saddened like the rest of the world, are mourning his death in Sofia.