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Following the heavy rain and hailstorm in Sofia, Mayor Vasil Terziev reported that the city received 230 distress calls to emergency services and 34 signals at the Metropolitan Municipality's contact center.

 Train services leaving from the Sofia Central Station are back on schedule, said the press office of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ).

Bulgarians with the name Ivan (and its derivatives) are celebrating St John the Baptist, or Ivanovden as it is locally known, on January 7.

US director David Boreinstein on Sunday took the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Golden Alexander for best feature over 50 minutes in the international competition for "Dream Empire," in which he exposes the lucrative albeit surreal business of hiring white males to attract property buyers in China's real-estate bubble.