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Nearly 200 Bulgarians were blocked at Rome's Ciampino Airport after a flight to Sofia to a low-budget airline was canceled.

"With our money, we were able to buy tickets for tomorrow. We will travel by Bulgaria Air, Ognian Manolev, one of the other passengers in the Italian capital, said "Hello, Bulgaria".

Nearly 100 000 leva were stolen from an ATM in Pleven, spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, Reni Kirilova, said on Wednesday.

The crime was committed on Monday. The ATM is located in the Storgozia district of Pleven. According to the investigators, the device was not destroyed or blasted, but was opened by a technical means.

The cultural program, chosen with a competition that had to accompany the Bulgarian Euro-Presidency and to promote our country to foreign guests, will happen with a long delay and few of the visiting foreigners will be able to see it.

Bulgaria may lose at least 15 million euros or about 30 million leva from the European funds for science because of their slow absorption. This was made clear by Minister Krasimir Valchev's response during parliamentary scrutiny on Thursday.

About 50,000 will travel abroad for the upcoming holidays, most will be in neighboring Greece. Some of them have already started - from the previous week, announced Rumen Draganov, director of the Institute for Tourism Analysis and Appraisals, in the morning block of BNT.

Do you know that official Bulgarian banknotes were printed in New York, USA, in 1922? American Bank Note Company printed the artistic design of Bulgarians Dimitar Gyudjenov and Nikola Kozouharov.

After being accused of lying about the debts of the Health Fund to foreign funds, Prof. Kamen Plochev, the Governor of the institution, proved to be right. The check of the cashier's supervisory board showed that we owe 271 million leva for treatment of our citizens abroad, 133 million leva, of which overdue, and this year we can repay only 70 million leva of them.
 

Bulgarians are mourning the loss of Dobre Dobrev, known as Dyado Dobri [grandpa Dobri] or the "Saint from Bailovo", who passed away on Tuesday at 103 years of age.

An iconic figure, well-known and loved by several generations of Sofians, he also was the largest single benefactor to the city's St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and a symbol of selflessness and hope. 

Expansion of the green area for paid parking is included in the transport committee of the Sofia Municipal Council on Wednesday, Dir bg announced.

Surprising or not - 6 people a month become millionaires in Bulgaria. Year-on-year, Bulgarian citizens, which have over 1 million leva in the bank, have increased by 71, according to the latest data of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB). Thus, by the end of last year, the wealthy people in Bulgaria were 833. They have a total of 2,030 billion levs, ie.