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Jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot are contesting their convictions in the European Court of Human Rights. Lawyers for the group filed their complaint, alleging that the […]
World food prices are steady after three months of decline with increased prices for oil and fats balancing out lower cereal and sugar prices, the Uni ...
NASA has captured the first images of a distant comet, which may give us a spectacular light show later this fall. The images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON ...
Bulgaria’s Parliament approved on February 7 a motion to remove Plovdiv International Fair from the list of companies under a privatisation ban, rem ...
Nearly half the respondents in a poll carried out by polling agency BBSS Gallup saw the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s (BOC) ties with business interests and the luxurious living style of […]
Poland’s Monetary Policy Council offered its fourth consecutive 25 bps cut to official interest rates, as macro data for December proved worse than already-depressed forecasts and domestic consumption declined more […]
Astronomers say there could be as many as 4.5 billion Earth-like planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and the nearest of them could be practically next door, in […]
Have you ever tasted Hron, or Devín? This is not an invitation to drink from the waters of the Hron River, or to gnaw on the rock of Devín Castle. […]
From Prague, the nearest foreign wine region lies just a little more than 70 miles (120 km) to the north. The Federal German State of Saxony is home to the […]
Facebook users who decide to unfriendsomeone may trigger a series of real-life consequences which reach beyondcyberspace, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Denver. Based on 582 survey responses gathered via [&hell ...
