Bari

Italian and Albanian fans of singer Ermal Meta have expressed disappointment after the musician bagged only third place on Italian TV song contest the Sanremo Music Festival.

The airport of the Bulgarian capital recorded a 8.3 % increase in the number of passengers in July compared to the same month in 2014.

A total of 393 312 passengers were serviced in July, with 67 % of them going through Terminal 2, while the remaining 33 % passed through Terminal 1, which services the low-cost airlines.

The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy has risen to eight after one of those hurt succumbed to their injuries, a hospital source said July 26.

Say “Greeeeeece!” is the German daily Die Zeit’s campaign focusing on the east Mediterranean country this summer season, which despite whatever crisis-related negative publicity appears to be one of 2015’s hottest tourism destinations.

The low-cost airline Wizz Air starts to conduct flights to five new destinations from the Bulgarian capital Sofia from Sunday.

Return flights from Sofia to Bari, Geneva and Cologne will be conducted every Monday and Friday, while the return flights to Memmingen (Munich West) and Naples will be serviced on Wednesdays and Sundays.

By Stathis Kousounis

The number of arrivals by ferry at Greek ports recorded a decline in the first four months of the year on an annual basis, as did the number of visitors coming over to Greece from Italy by ferry, according to data released on Friday by the SETE Intelligence unit of the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises.

Low cost airline Wizz Air is set on releasing new flight destinations connection Sofia with some of the most attractive European destinations two months earlier than announced.

The company announced Saturday that five Airbus A320 planes will be arriving at its station on Sofia Airport on July 26, as opposed to the initially announced date - September 14.

Prof. Oktay Sinano?lu, one of Turkey?s most prominent scholars who was known for his books on the Turkish language and became Yale University?s youngest professor of the 20th century, died early April 20 in the United States.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu tweeted on April 20 that Sinano?lu, who was born in the city of Bari in Italy in 1934, had passed away in Miami.

BARI, Italy — Helicopters defied high winds, stormy seas and darkness Monday to pluck hundreds of passengers from a Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania, as survivors told of a frantic rush to escape the flames and pelting rain. Five people died and dozens remained trapped on board a day after the fire broke out.

Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea announced it will be using Athens International Airport as a hub as of spring, when it will start operating scheduled flights from the Greek capital to four destinations in Italy and even a domestic service.