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Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Dragomir Stoynev said on August 2 that the Cabinet would review all existing mine safety regulations in the wake of the collapse of the Oranovo coalmine in […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on August 2 to overturn the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev on the amendments to the Special Surveillance Means Act, which regulates when and how law […]
Rescue workers found on August 2 the bodies of the two miners that had been trapped in the collapse of the Oranovo coalmine in south-western Bulgaria on July 16, Bulgarian […]
America’s space agency, NASA, has produced a video showing how Earth’s surface temperatures have been changing over the years. NASA scientists gathered temperature data from over 1,000 weather stations from […]
For a fourth year running, residents and visitors of Sofia are invited to shake off the torpor of the hot August Sunday afternoons and take a (metaphorical) breath of fresh […]
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 primarily have comedic intentions; although it […]
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 five confused minutes on […]
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 ruling coalition and opposition party […]
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 […]
