BTV

The Specialised Criminal Court will review the arrest of the 21-year old man detained over terrorism charges.

Ivan Zahariev was detained in Sofia two days ago, reported bTV. According to the investigating officers, the young man was learning to shoot with a gun and a Kalashnikov rifle.

Zahariev was born in Vietnam. He has dual citizenship - Bulgarian and Australian.

Bulgaria's Regional Development Ministry will try to contest a deal with state property in Sofia in the courts, its head Minister Lilyana Pavlova has said.

Bulgaria stands no chance in the UN Secretary General race if it changes its candidate to take up the office, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has said.

He has argued Bulgaria still has a "historic" chance with Bokova's candidacy.

A 53-year-old worker died on Friday evening in an incident at the Arsenal arms manufacturing plant in the Bulgarian town of Kazanlak, local media report.

A blast occurred around 22:30 GMT, local time. The man was left with serious injuries and died as doctors were fighting for his life.

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.

About 500 Bulgarian tourists remain stuck on Greece's Aegean island of Santorini due to a strike of ferry companies, Sofia-based broadcaster bTV reported on Friday.

Five Bulgarian travel agencies had sent tourists on package tours to Santorini for the long weekend, a representative of a Bulgarian tour operator told bTV. May 6 is a holiday in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's prosecuting authorities have brought criminal charges against the director of the state-run fund for medical treatment of children abroad and four of his subordinates over suspected fraud and abuse of office, bTV reported on Thursday.

Three-quarters of people who graduated the Medical University of Sofia in 2015 seek to leave the country, a survey cited by private bTV station shows.

Low salaries are the reason most frequently pointed out, despite Sofia's place as the Bulgarian city with highest average monthly payment.

Former Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has predicted names of Bulgarian politicians will appear in the Panama Papers.

He has told private bTV's Sunday afternoon talkshow that the information will be disclosed either by "the Bulgarian media outlet" or other sources, considering that "the entire information is already present in Germany and the UK".

Police are still negotiating with Petar Kodzheykov, a retired police officer who barricaded himself at his home on Saturday evening with his wife, Bulgarian Interior Ministry officials say.

On Sunday morning the man fired shots at a police officer who was trying to convince him to leave the building.