Balko News

Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, who led the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the bloody Balkan ethnic conflicts in the 1990s.

Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item -- garlic.

An elegant black-tie dinner set among the stacks of books at the Tulsa Central Library is a little dream-like. Add a nationally acclaimed author speaking to the crowd and the mix becomes irresistible.

The economic crisis, a lack of funding and no definitive agreement with Russian company Atomstroyexport, which was to build the plant, were among the reasons for RWE's withdrawal, said Galina Tosheva, director of the national energy holding, which includes all the main state-owned energy companies.

Pamela J. French, of Guymon, was chosen as the September featured artist. Artistic ability runs deep in the French family.

Italian authorities plan to expand Venice's port into a bustling shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the treasured city builton water, a conservation group said Monday.

An overloaded sightseeing boat carrying dozens of Bulgarian tourists sank Saturday in a lake on Macedonia's western border, and at least 15 people drowned, officials said.