BULGARIA popularity and BULGARIA trends

L’última vegada que vaig visitar Atenes, fa pocs anys, va coincidir que eren els dies de Pasqua. La Pasqua dels cristians ortodoxos és una festa nacional i oficial, popular i universalment compartida. A tot arreu hi ha rètols i cartells que anuncien Khristos aneste, Crist ha ressuscitat, i a la televisió el president i el govern sencer participaven en la celebració amb abundància de bi...

Por desgracia, los niños ya no se van a la cama sin cenar como castigo, sino por culpa de la crisis, porque no tienen nada que llevarse a la boca. Un informe de la Fedaia, la federación que agrupa a las entidades catalanas que trabajan con niños desamparados o en riesgo de exclusión social, concluye que las cifras de pobreza infantil se encuentran en España en niveles muy altos, superiores al 2...

Thank GAWD! A MASSIVE earthquake occurred less than 30 miles from where Selena Gomez is currently filming in Bulgaria, but thankfully, she's okay! The 5.6 earthquake shook the country around 3 a.m., and a 4.9 magnitude aftershock occurred about 90 minutes later. Reports on injured, deaths, and damages have been slow, so the star took [...]

El movimiento, el más fuerte registrado en el país europeo desde 1917, tuvo su epicentro en la localidad de Pernik, a 20 kilómetros de la capital Sofía

Un terremoto de 5,6 grados en la escala de Richter ha sacudido en la madrugada del martes Sofía, la capital de Bulgaria, sin causar daños personales, aunque sí materiales, según ha informado Defensa Civil.

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament voted on Thursday to ban smoking in all indoor public spaces from June 1 in an attempt to persuade one of Europe's heaviest smoking nations to kick the habit.

Los ministros de Economía de los Veintisiete han aprobado este martes por unanimidad una nueva norma para reforzar el capital de los bancos cuyo objetivo es aumentar su resistencia frente a futuras crisis. El compromiso ha sido posible después de que Reino Unido y Bulgaria levantaran sus últimas reservas.

Bulgaria is protesting against the government's decision to abandon construction of NPP "Belene". The facility erected by Russian specialists was to help the Balkan country to meet stringent EU requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But the political situation was more important for the Sofia politicians than the national interests

L'ex attaccante deceduto a Ibadan all'età di 48 anni: è passato alla storia per l'esultanza contro la Bulgaria nel Mondiale americano. Fu Pallone d'Oro africano nel '93

Nine European leaders are shunning a Central European summit hosted by Ukraine this month, adding to international pressure on the former Soviet republic over its treatment of jailed opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko.

Microsoft has launched Web Windows Phone Marketplaces — the web versions of online stores where Windows Phone users can buy apps and games…

GANGSTER who cut off rivals’ ears and fingers is fighting extradition to Bulgaria

China's investment in Bulgaria grew fourfold in 2011, the Chinese Ambassador to Bulgaria Guo Yezhou said on Monday.

The cost of taking a break in Bulgaria is the best-value of all the European destinations, a study has found.

Dimitar Berbatov will leave Manchester United during the summer with a ringing tribute from Sir Alex Ferguson. The 31-year-old Bulgaria striker is unhappy because he cannot be guaranteed a first-team place at Old Trafford.

Will kick off in Bulgaria in August with glam rockers The Darkness as her support act.

Tihomir Georgiev, who is notorious for slicing off victims' fingers and ears, was on Interpol's 'most wanted' list until he was tracked down and arrested at a boxing gym in South London in January.

StarBev opera cervecerías en República Checa, Serbia, Croacia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungría, Montenegro y vende sus marcas en Bosnia-Herzegovina y Eslovaquia. La compañía emplea a cerca de 4.100 personas y generó ventas en torno a los 700 millones de euros en 2011.

The agent of Aston Villa skipper Stiliyan Petrov has distanced his client from reports that surfaced in Bulgaria, claiming the Aston Villa skipper will retire from football.

Aston Villa captain decides to call time on his football career after leukaemia diagnosis, according to Bulgaria media

El Consejo de Ministros aprobó ayer el nombramiento del exministro y expresidente del Congreso Federico Trillo como embajador en Reino Unido y ha designado nuevos representantes en Bélgica, Suecia, Grecia, Ecuador, Finlandia, Bulgaria y República Eslovaca. Aunque el nombre de Trillo sonó como embajador en EE UU, finalmente se nombró al diplomático Ramón Gil-Casares para la plaza de Washington y...

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Even though I don't speak Bulgarian, I can tell that the Bulgarian version of Married With Children is awfully faithful to the dreadful American original. It really seems like the cast spent a long time studying the mannerisms and schtick of the US actors. And though I wouldn't swear to it, I'm pretty sure that's [...]

Nearly 15 years after its American counterpart left the airwaves, save for syndication, Bulgaria welcomes its version of "Married With Children."American commenters on Imgur.com seem less than thrilled."There's only one Married with Children. 'MERICA," writes one commenter.Read More...More on Video

The new iPad arrived in 25 more countries Friday. The first YouTube videos: Denmark: Hungary: More as they arrive. On top of the 10 countries that got the new iPad last week, Apple (AAPL) launched the device Friday in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, N...

Bulgaria's parliament adopted on Thursday a new law to regulate online gambling for the first time, its press office said.

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian customs officials seized a large number of live reptiles, insects and crabs - some of them dangerous - stashed in suitcases in a bus travelling from the Czech Republic, they said on Monday.

Viktor Bout made his first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, on a pleasant summer day in Bulgaria. A Russian entrepreneur who was then twenty-eight years old, he had flown to Sofia from Sharjah, the third-largest city in the United Arab Emirates, where he had lived . . . (Subscription required.)

BANSKO, Bulgaria (AP) -- Lindsey Vonn captured a super-G Sunday for her 10th World Cup victory this season, becoming the career leader in the discipline and strengthening her lead in the super-G standings....

Dymphna Byrne encountered puzzled looks when she said she was going to Bulgaria for her holiday. But her week in the resort of St Constantine showed her a country with plenty to offer.

An anonymous reader writes "The government of Bulgaria, which had already signed ACTA, yesterday reversed itself, and announced that it would not seek ratification of the treaty. This comes after similar moves by Poland, Germany and the Netherlands, and a weekend of massive protests against ACTA across the European continent." ...

The surface waters of the Danube River, Europe's busiest waterway, have frozen completely for the first time in over 20 years in Bulgaria.

Swollen rivers in Bulgaria and Greece burst their banks Tuesday, leaving dozens of homes underwater, as Bulgarian officials declared a day of mourning for eight people confirmed killed after a dam collapse nearly washed away their village.

The southern Bulgarian village of Biser was flooded on Monday after a dam wall collapsed after heavy rains.

A dam in southern Bulgaria burst after days of heavy rain, sending a torrent surging through a village. The disaster brought the region's toll from flooding to eight dead, with 10 missing.

Emil Boc says he is quitting to 'release tension' after weeks of protests over austerity measures and alleged corruptionThe Romanian prime minister and his cabinet have resigned after weeks of sometimes violent protests over widespread corruption and austerity measures.Emil Boc said on Monday he was quitting "to release the tension in the country's political and social situation".During his thr...

British expat David Branson Ferguson, 71, is being held by police in Bulgaria who are investigating the death of schoolboy Stanislav Lagoshevtsi Mirchov.

Bulgaria becomes the second European country after France to ban test drilling for shale gas using the controversial "fracking" method.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Bowing to public pressure, Bulgaria's government says U.S. oil company Chevron cannot explore for shale gas in the country using the extraction technique known as "fracking."...

Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova and Grigor Dimitrov beat Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and Frederik Nielsen at the Hopman Cup on Wednesday.

A while back, a reader from Bulgaria sent me a photo of a highly topical bottle of local spirits: You can either know where you are, or how much you've drunk, but not both... Having spent my last day of 2011 taking SteelyKid to the mall for bouncy-bounce and midway games, and then having her help me bake apple pie (which she demanded to do out of nowhere, and wouldn't stop talking about...

Bulgaria's government is proposing a total ban on smoking from next June in indoor public places.

Der Sparkurs in der Energiewirtschaft geht weiter: Eon hat sich jetzt von seiner bulgarischen Tochter Eon Bulgaria getrennt - und damit 133 Millionen Euro eingenommen. Neuer Eigentümer ist die tschechische Energo-Pro.

Chamber of Commerce warned of possible damage to Sino-Israeli relations if Israeli brings in construction workers from Bulgaria and Romania.

Restrictions on workers coming to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria will stay in place for another two years to protect British workers, the Home Office said yesterday.

LONDON, BUDAPEST, BUCHAREST & SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 18, 2011 (ots/PRNewswire) -- ? NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation [http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html ] (NTT Com), today announced that it has expanded the reach of NTT Communications' Tier 1 ...

ONE MORE THING:ON WEDNESDAY, it was very much a case of “winner alright” for Irish bookmaker Paddy Power after the release of a trading update and the announcement of the acquisition of a games software developer in Bulgaria.

"For the last couple of weeks, Daddy has been there and Mommy is far away," the actress blogs of filming in Bulgaria

Apple's latest smartphone product iPhone 4S will start retail sales in Hong Kong on November 11, 2011. Apart from Hong Kong, there are another 14 countries and regions which will become the second batch to introduce iPhone 4S, including South Korea, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal [...]

Move on Lenin. Steve Jobs is in town. The town of Plovdiv, the second largest city of Bulgaria. There, kids want to change the name of their technical school from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Steve Jobs. More »

Boys today may be on a faster track to puberty than their fathers' generation, reaching the milestone an average of a year earlier, according to a study conducted in Bulgaria.