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Firefighters extinguished a blaze at the film studios in Boyana, on the outskirts of Bulgarian capital Sofia, bTV reported on Friday.

Four fire engines fought the flames that engulfed film sets on an area of some 400 sq. m.

No one was injured in the incident, the Ministry of the Interior said earlier on Friday.

World-famous film stars appear in a new commercial promoting Bulgaria as a tourist destination, the Tourism Ministry in Sofia announced on Sunday.

The commercial has been produced by Sofia-based Nu Boyana Film Studios with no funding from the government, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said at a presentation of the video in Sofia.

The World Bank is organizing a competition for young programmers in the form of a hackathon to be held in Sofia.

There currently are 50 registered participants, who have formed a total of 16 teams, including a more experienced member and one with less experience in mobile ap development.

As many as 96 653 children have been born into families of Bulgarian parents outside the country between 2004 and 2013, a recent "map" has shown.

There are more than 200 Bulgarian schools abroad and their number, as well as the number of their students is increasing, chair of the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad Dr. Boyan Kulov told Darik.

However, according to the experts, only between 5 and 10 percent of school-age Bulgarian children living abroad go to a Bulgarian school.

Natural gas prices in Bulgaria will decrease by 3 to 15%, the country's energy watchod DKEVR announced Friday.

Boyan Boev, head of the State Commisison for Energy and Water Regulation (what DKEVR stands for), said he hoped the move would push more Bulgarians to use gas, the website Expert.bg reports.