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Monaco striker Dimitar Berbatov is Bulgaria's highest-paid athlete in the past decade with his earnings for the period estimated at BGN 70 M.

According to a study of daily Capital, which ranked the top ten highest-paid athletes in the country, Berbatov is the wealthiest Bulgarian athlete ever.

EU Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva is Bulgaria's most influential personality on Twitter, a recent poll has shown.

A survey carried out by Darik Radio and Bulgarian telecom Vivacom is aimed at showing which are the Bulgarian social media users whose posts are most shared, liked or retweeted.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday signed decrees recalling some ambassadors, according to the Presidential Administration.

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A French court ruled May 7 that secret wiretap recordings of former president Nicolas Sarkozy talking with his lawyer could be used as evidence in an ongoing corruption probe, one of his legal team confirmed.
 

Montenegro on Monday is taking the chair the Forum for Security Cooperation, the main independent body of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which works to increase military security and stability in Europe.

It will chair the Forum, which deals with some of the most fundamental political and military agreements between OSCE states, until the end of July.

Equipped with a website, national flag and coat of arms, Vit Jedlicka announced on Monday the creation of the new Balkan state of Liberland.

SHANGHAI - World's best tennis player Novak Djokovic won the Laureus World Sports award for the second time in his career for the world's best athlete of the year, officials released at a ceremony in Shanghai.

Fourth-place Monaco missed the chance to keep the pressure on the top three in the French league after being held to a 1-1 home draw by Saint-Etienne on April 3.

Solar Impulse 2 took off from Myanmar's second biggest city of Mandalay early March 30 and headed for China's Chongqing, the fifth flight of a landmark journey to circumnavigate the globe powered solely by the sun.
      

The proportion of elderly people in Turkey increased to 8 percent of the overall population in 2014, and is expected to surpass 10 percent by 2023, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) on March 18.