Sofia  - Discovered under centuries-old layers of dirt in 1948, then submerged under 20 metres of water, the ancient city of Seuthopolis is to emerge once again in a bold rescue project.

The magnificently preserved city, founded by the Thracian king Seuthes III in 323 BC, was discovered in central Bulgaria during the construction of a dam on the Tundzha river.

Sofia - Bulgarian retail prices went up by 0.8 per cent in Ja

Sofia - Bulgaria was in shock Thursday over a macabre family murder in the south of the country which left two children dead and five others seriously injured.

Sofia - Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov would travel to

Sofia- Saying the country is under pressure from the global financial troubles and wary of another gas crisis, Bulgaria's parliament ordered Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev's cabinet on Friday to explore the possibilities for the restart of dormant nuclear reactors.

The assembly voted 140-48 for the motion to prod the government into trying to negotiate a new lease of life for two of the four Soviet-era reactors at the Kozloduy power plant.

The 2006 closure of two 440-megawatt reactors, considered unsafe by the European Union, was one of the conditions Bulgaria had to meet to join the bloc in 2007.