ridden Toplofikatsiya provides service for more than 400,000 households in Bulgaria's 1.5-million capital. It has an electricity output of 280 megawatts and a heating capacity of 3,000 megawatts. Its former head Valentin Dimitrov was sentenced earlier this year to 14

member council is the top body ruling the country's judiciary. Prosecutor General Boris Velchev has recently reported about an investigation, which alleged its members Stoiko Stoev, Ivan Dimov and Plamen Stoilov could have accepted kickbacks for their votes in the

billion construction of a new 2,000-megawatt nuclear power station near the Danube port of Belene, which the Socialist predecessors of centre-right Borisov have restarted. The project was frozen shortly after the 1989 collapse of Communism. Government officials have said its

Bulgaria's former foreigm minister Ivailo Kalfin on Moday berated Libya for its threat to leava the UN organisation on cultural heritage UNESCO if its newly elected chief, Bulgarian Irina Bokova takes office.

A Libyan immigrant threw a bomb at Italian army barracks in Milan on Monday and had his hand torn off in the blast.

U.S. economists Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel prize for economics Monday by their analyses of management of common property and role of economy in conflict resolution.

ridden state railway company BDZ alone owed to creditors BGN490 million

right prime minister Boiko Borisov has risen by 3.7% on the month to 50% September, Gallup reported Monday. It based the progress on steps his cabinet has taken to fight corruption. Support for the formerly ruling Socialist and their allies,

A blast caused by a suspected suicide bomber killed up to 41 people in Pakistan's tense Swat valley, the army said.

establish diplomatic relations and re-open their common border, after nearly a century of hostility