100 million mice invade Bulgarian region
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Bulgaria has declared a state of disaster around its Black Sea port of Bourgas because of an infestation of millions of mice.
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Politics: 5 December 2004, Sunday. Bulgarian journalists managed to bring a box of plasticine in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, where the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...
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Moscow leads all European capitals in the number of stray dogs, local representatives of the Red Book preservation society said, with the packs killing deer and hedgehogs in the Russian capital's parks.
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Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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Lifestyle: 6 November 2004, Saturday. Bulgaria's capital is bracing up for a large-scale rakiya revelry in its central area, aiming to add to the Guinness world records.
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Krasimir Dimitrov was headed to lunch with friends at a restaurant on a busy street in Bulgaria's capital.Comment
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The seven forest rangers were patrolling their region south of Sofia when they came across a group of Gypsies they suspected of illegal logging. A verbal exchange quickly turned violent &#151; and then, police say, the Gypsies went after the rangers with metal clubs.
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Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Politics: 15 November 2004, Monday. Sofia welcomed Monday high-profile statesmen from all Balkan countries, to a conference focused on partnership in the region.
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Dutch tour operator BAMOC has shown interest to step into Bulgaria's market during an international tourist industry fair in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Ministry of Economy said Wednesday.
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Politics: 24 October 2004, Sunday. A new road will connect Bulgaria and its western neighbour Macedonia.
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Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said that Bulgaria and Romania&#039;s joining the European Union would strengthen stability in their western Balkan region.
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By Matthew Brunwasser  A scrappy band of 150 young protesters made their way through the freezing streets of the center of Sofia last weekend, pitting nature- lovers against those whose economic future depends on spending Bulgaria's natural wealth.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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Severe floods bring a mass invasion of mice, sparking fears of disease in central China, officials say.
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Politics: 29 November 2004, Monday. The first group of the Bulgarian unit to Iraq returned to Sofia safe and sound on November 28.
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Top news: 12 November 2004, Friday. Many worried citizens blocked Sofia's suburban area of Knyazhevo and the road to Southwest Bulgaria.