Cleaning

The Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees (DAB) is in urgent need of 10 tonnes of flour in order to feed the people accommodated at its shelters in Sofia and Harmanli.

DAB informed of this in an announcement addressed to potential donors made on its website, daily Dnevnik informs.

The Dita Detergent factory in the north-eastern industrial town of Tuzla was once a leading brand in the former Yugoslavia.

But after surviving the 1992-5 war it went bankrupt and stopped production as the global recession swept through the region from 2008 onwards.

Two perplexing events occurred in Sofia over the course of the past several days - yellow stains on the ground and a strange odor in the air. The streets and balconies across Sofia were all covered with yellow dust Monday.

A committee will be set up to assess the cost of cleaning public buildings with the aim of hiring permanent staff to undertake the task from next year rather than using private contractors, sources have told Kathimerini.

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has released a fatwa stating that usage of toilet paper is permissible within Islam, though it emphasized that water should be the primary source of cleansing. 

Turkey?s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has released a fatwa stating that usage of toilet paper is permissible within Islam, though it emphasized that water should be the primary source of cleansing. 

It is all about a shift of dates. The idea came upon Charles IX, the King of France, to announce the start of the New Year on Jan. 1 in an attempt to unite all New Year's celebrations on a single day.

By Harry van Versendaal

?The only good thing about graffiti is that it pisses off the liberals. Which is good enough, I suppose.?

Sevim Üçgül, a housewife from the Aegean province of Ayd?n, has won a two-year legal battle against a dishwasher maker - after serving the case's judge tea in an unclean glass. 

Üçgül said she bought a machine in 2011 for 1,440 liras, as the seller had convinced her that it was superior to cheaper rival brands, daily Hürriyet reported.

The Finance Ministry cleaners, who have been engaged in a months-long legal battle to win their jobs back, intervened on Wednesday in a row between New Democracy and SYRIZA over Attica Governor Rena Dourou’s decision not to offer them jobs at the regional authority.