Stuttgart

Wizz Air has announced the launch of a new route from Sofia to Stuttgart, one of Europe's greenest cities. Starting in December, flights will operate year-round three times a week. Tickets are available now on the airline's website and mobile app, with prices starting at 65.99 leva.

Vienna has once again been named the best city to live in the world. Last night, the annual ranking of the "Economist Intelligence Unit" was released, according to which the Austrian capital is ranked first for the fourth time in the last five years, the Austrian public radio and television ORF reported.

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is expected to sell its Russian assets to a local investor, the Russian ministry of industry and trade said yesterday, becoming the latest automaker to exit since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.

"Mercedes-Benz intends to sell its shares in Russian subsidiaries to a local investor," Avtodom, the ministry said in a Telegram statement.

Five more Turkish nationals have died in Germany from the novel coronavirus, local authorities said on April 16.  

Their deaths were reported in the cities of Berlin, Munich, and Stuttgart and the town of Baden-Baden.

The total number of Turks who have died in Germany from the virus now stands at 67.

More than 3,500 items with the trademark logo were found in the course of police actions taken by criminologistс from the State Agency for Drug Policy in Haskovo and their colleagues from the city of Dimitrovgrad.

The representative of the Mercedes brand for Bulgaria, the company Silver Star Retail, will open a sales service center for the cars of the German brand in the fourth city in Bulgaria. After those in Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv such will start work in Burgas.

Maria Sharapova spent time prior to the start of the Stuttgart Grand Prix flinging a factory-fresh 700-horsepower Porsche 911 RT2 RS around a test track in Germany's automobile capital.

The trial of eight members of the "Osmanen Germania" gang, officially registered as a boxing club, began in the German city of Stuttgart on March 26.

Five cities in Germany did not approve the idea of ​​providing free public transport to improve air quality, calling it unrealistic, DPA reported.

Berlin is under pressure to meet European air cleanliness standards and to avoid fines.

Public prosecutors in the German city of Stuttgart are investigating whether staff at auto parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH was involved in the rigging of emissions tests by Volkswagen (VW), the prosecutor's office said on Dec. 16.