Slovenia News

Romeo and Juliet may well be our favorite tragic couple, with a tale ever tantalizing to filmmakers, theater artists, composers, and choreographers.

LEAVE the highway from Ljubljana and wend your way west through the lush, vineyard-dotted region of southwestern Slovenia known as the Karst, and eventually you will come upon the tiny village of Tomaj and the flower-fringed courtyard of the Skerlj family farm.

By Lisa Chapman The director of Vienna's world-famous Albertina Museum has said the lack of damage to precious works of art at the museum after thousands of litres of water leaked into a storage room is "proof of God's existence." Klaus Albrecht Schroder said a simple metal plate on the roof of the storage area had stopped 2,100 litres of water ...

"I have decided to withdraw from active politics and will not run as a candidate for Croatian president" in elections due this year, Mr Sanader said overnight.

Tough luck for tourists as Italy tightens its borders. For the next two weeks, Italy is suspending the Schengen Agreement, which abolished border controls within mainland Europe, according to Euronews .

Milton Glaser's Seeing Things is an exhibition of his drawings, watercolors, prints, giclA©es, and sketchbooks, and a collection of arts-related posters, all created over a span of 50 years.

Eight masked individuals attacked participators of a gay and lesbian literature night and assaulted journalist and gay activist Mitja Blaziae.

OFIS built this chapel for an existing Slovenian cemetery close to Ljubljana. The chapel is cut into the rising landscape and the shape is follows the contours of the geographical landscape around the graveyard.

Prime Minister Nader Dahabi and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor inspect an honour guard in Ljubljana on Wednesday AMMAN - Prime Minister Nader Dahabi on Wednesday stressed the importance of Slovenia's support in upcoming negotiations on the Kingdom's request for 'advanced status' with the EU.

Got 48 hours to explore the central European melting pot which is the Italian port city of Trieste? Get the most out of a visit to the city that only became definitively part of Italy in 1954 and where James Joyce wrote part of "Ulysses." FRIDAY 8 pm Drive down past cliffs and trees into the city of 200,000 people, a northeastern outpost of Italy ...

The first of the 135 Patria AMV 8x8 armoured vehicles ordered by the Slovenian Ministry of Defence was handed over on Thursday.

This weekend we hit Maribor in Slovenia for Round 5 of the NISSAN UCI DHI & 4X World Cup.

For the second time in two days, the Slovenian contingent at the Dirka had to settle for the lower podium steps only.

As far back as 2000, Maribor has been home to some of the most intense World Cup crowds on the circuit.

Salzburg construction firm Alpine Bau GmbH has won two new contracts for almost 100 million Euros, it was revealed today .

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar briefed government officials Wednesday and parliament's Foreign Policy Committee regarding EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn's latest proposal to resolve the border dispute with Croatia.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic and Slovenian Minister of Economy Matej Lahovnik said today in Ljubljana that Slovenian firms have invested EUR 1.7 bn in Serbia up until now and are interested in making new investments.

Slovenia is a country that many Americans may not even be aware exists, much less consider a vacation destination.

Belgrade Ljubljana Convicted war criminals in the Hague could serve their sentences out in Slovenia.

At a meeting in Paris on 12 June 2009, the Jury of World Book Capital, a jury which includes IPA, IBF, IFLA and UNESCO, appointed Buenos Aires as World Book Capital 2011 for the quality and variety of its application file, widely and enthusiastically supported by all players involved in the book industry .