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"IN THE middle of the crisis, the head of state was left alone," complains Rosen Plevneliev , Bulgaria's president.

The port welcomes the five-star rated ultra-luxurious cruise ship Silver Whisper today , as she makes Falmouth the first port of call on her 12-day Southampton to Copenhagen cruise.

In this May 13, 2013 file picture, persons pass the restaurant 'Nozawa', left, in Westerland on the German North Sea island of Sylt.

A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" - some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.

The United States says it has completed a transfer of 75 kilograms of salt coolant material to the Czech Republic as part of cooperation between the two countries in developing new nuclear reactors.

Karima El Mahroug is seen in the witness stand at left as she testifies for the first time in the trial of three Berlusconi aides charged with recruiting her and other women for prostitution, in Milan's courthouse, Italy, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Hungarian senior prime ministerial adviser Zsigmond Perenyi is set to arrive in Israel in late May for a series of meetings with Foreign Ministry officials on the issue of anti-Semitism in his country, At 100,000 members, Hungary has the largest Jewish community in Central Europe, and local Jews are worried over the rise of the far-right Jobbik ... (more)

The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations said Thursday, a step toward defusing an explosive dispute left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the U.S.-led ousting of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Various types of pancetta, bacon made from pork belly, on display in Turin, Italy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not have a "bosom friendship" with her French counterpart, she said on Thursday, but her working relationship with Francois Hollande was strong and crucial for Europe.

GOVERNMENT claims that the HS2 high speed rail project will "rebalance" the British economy have been dealt a blow by a report that says the benefits to cities outside London are unclear.

You wouldn't want to shower in it, but researchers have discovered pockets of water in a deep reservoir in Canada that may be up to 2.64 billion years old.

Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable will blast advocates of EU withdrawal as "self-indulgent and reckless" a day after more than 100 Conservatives rocked the coalition by voting in support of a referendum.

Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is pictured here on Tuesday passing by an idle stray dog after meeting farmers, but turning his back on journalists.

Tight borders: This Afghan woman, who arrived in Greece last week with her two children, is trying to get to Germany where her husband lives.

Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister said that he was impatient to hear the final pronouncement of the Central Electoral Commission on the scandal with the 350 000 ballots discovered on the eve of the May 12 parliamentary elections.

People of Freedom party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wipes his forehead as he attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome, April 30, 2013.

It's one of the reasons she headed to Ireland - a place so famous for its warm and generous hospitality.

Order dockets found in the rubble of a Dhaka garment factory where over 1,100 workers died show just why it pays foreign stores to buy from Bangladesh - clothes made for as little as a tenth of what they sell for in the West.

Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party MRF rejected working with a nationalist party on Tuesday, scuppering chances of a broad coalition government and deepening the political stalemate in the European Union's poorest country.