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Since May, Melissa McCarthy has appeared in three films. All of them have been terrible and full of the cheapest kinds of laughs. But while the other two – Identity […]
Blue Jasmine differs in two important ways from most of Woody Allen’s other recent films. The first difference is that the film does not primari ...
Murphy’s Law says that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. This has always struck me when reading about the Jock Palfreeman case and the ...
Bulgaria’s lawmakers passed the government’s Budget revision on July 31 after two days of debate, most of it spent in sniping between MPs for the ...
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor has finalised the deal to buy Bulgaria’s second-largest mobile carrier Globul, appointing Stein-Erik Vellan as the company’s new chief executive officer. Telenor announced that it closed […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Romania’s economic growth forecast to two per cent this year up from an initial 1.6 per cent after new figures showed higher-than-expected exports […]
A controversial rapper who has been a vocal leader of the daily gatherings of about 100 people in support of the embattled Bulgarian Socialist Party government used an anti-Semitic slur […]
Banks were trembling this week as the government prepared to announce another strategy to help households saddled with foreign-currency mortgages – whose repayments rocketed when the economic crisis hit in […]
In recent years Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended his country’s influence well beyond its borders. With a booming economy and a foreign policy based on “zero problems” […]
There are signs that Europe’s economy may finally be starting to recover from years of recession and slow growth that have left millions unemployed and hampered the global economy. But […]
