Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria News

In a joint effort by officers from several regional police departments, ten suspects had been arrested who were thought to have been involved in robberies at different site in the country, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on December 20 2009.

There has been no preventive measures against organized crime on part of the Bulgarian state for the last 20 years, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Bulgarian soldiers march during the official welcome ceremony at Sofia airport, Bulgaria on 17 December 2008.

Bulgarian police busted a criminal gang, allegedly responsible for a series of recent kidnappings, and arrested 23 of its members, the interior ministry said.

A new Bulgarian book entitled "Bulgaria-China. Culture Tourism" was presented in the Confucius Institute in Sofia on Thursday.

Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the "provisional government" months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade .

Twenty-five people have been arrested as part of a nationwide police operation codenamed "The Insolents", the Interior Ministry said on December 17 2009.

Bulgarians dive into icy water as they compete to catch a cross thrown into a lake in Sofia, the capital, on Epiphany Day.

The Interior Ministry's press office earlier stated that the CCTV showed that the robbers entered the bank but failed to take any money.

In October the Sofia City Court rejected Friday the latest request of alleged crime boss Zlatomir Ivanov aka Baretata to be released from jail.

Armed thugs have robbed about SUD 1.6 M in four different crimes committed on Sunday and Monday, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov welcomes EU permanent President-elect Herman Van Rompuy in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, on Dec.

Bulgaria's prime minister says the country could accept one prisoner from Guantanamo following calls from Washington to take in detainees from the U.S. prison in Cuba.

Around 700 Swiss Muslims peacefully protested against their country's minaret ban on Saturday, with speakers denouncing what they called a hate campaign against Islam.

The unidentified man was found dead in his Renault Megane on the road outside the Bachkovo Monastery.

The United States has asked NATO member Bulgaria to house detainees from its prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba, Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said today.

Contestants take part in a rehearsal of the final of "the best model of the world" contest in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec.

Popova called the political and professional brokers a oethe biggest danger to the judiciary,a at a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council.

While giving evidence in the CSKA trial, tycoon Vasil Bozhkov accused the Finance Minister, Simeon Dyankov, of killing off Bulgarian business.

Sofia police is conducting a search of the safety vault that was robbed Thursday evening.