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| Bulgaria in Brief: | Chinese Baby Girls 'Sold for Adoption' Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
An investigation by the state-owned Southern Metropolis News found that about 80 girls in one county had been sold for USD 3 000.
The babies were taken when the parents could not pay the steep fines imposed for having too many children, the BBC reported.
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| | Obama Calls for End to Russia Cold War ApproachUS President Barack Obama has said Russia must understand that "old Cold War approaches" to relations with the US belong in the past.
Obama said he would convey this to Vladimir Putin during talks in Moscow next week, the BBC reported. President Obama said the former Russian president - now prime minister - "still has sway" in Russia.
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| | Bulgaria Set to Sign Formula One Race DealFormula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, will meet with a delegation from Bulgaria next weekend regarding the possibility of adding the country to the formula 1 calendar.
In March it was announced that the Bulgarian Motorcycle Federation was in talks with Ecclestone and that it was ready to assign funds to build a Formula One circuit.
Representatives of the Bulgarian race organising committee have now been formally invited to the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on July 12 to meet with Ecclestone.
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| | Berlin Wall Exhibition in Bulgaria's Sofia UniversityAn exhibition, dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the removal of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin wall, has been opened in Bulgaria's biggest Sofia University.
The exhibition has been officially presented by the deputy chancellor of the university, Nedyu Popivanov, and the Hungarian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Judit Lang.
The exhibit is situated on the second floor of the History department.... |
| | UK Justice Secretary Refuses to Pardon ShieldsUK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has refused an appeal for a pardon by jailed football fan Michael Shields.
Shields was jailed for 15 years in Bulgaria in 2005 for the attempted murder of barman Martin Georgiev, who had a rock dropped on his head in Varna. His sentence was later reduced when he was transferred to a UK prison.
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