Новости за 11.07.2018

In 2014-2017, 5 056.3 GWh of energy was saved in Bulgaria, accounting for 60.7% of the national target for energy savings by 2020. The information comes from the annual report on the implementation of the National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency for 2017, approved by the Government.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 11 (SeeNews) - Total revenue from tourist overnights spent in Bulgaria rose by 27.2% year-on-year to 78.3 million levs ($46.9 million/40.0 million euro) in May, the country's statistical office said on Wednesday.

A young man kidnapped his mother, killed his father and attacked policemen in the Lozenets quarter of Sofia, NOVA reported.

(CNN)After nine years, 16 trophies and 451 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid.

This past June, late one night, a team of scientists camped out on a fjord in Greenland heard a roar. When icebergs are born, they fill the ocean with noise, and the Helheim Glacier was cracking. The researchers saw, LiveScience reports, “puffs of ice” tossed into the air as a new iceberg began to break off from the glacier. They began filming, and the result is here, a sped-up version of an iceberg calving:

The Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for an overnight suicide bombing at a campaign rally that killed a secular politician and 20 others, two weeks before the country's nationwide elections.

A child drowned in the Tundzha River near Maritsa Street in Yambol, informs the police. The signal was filed on July 10 at 18.10.

Sofia is ranked 18th among 150 cities in the world with the fastest rise in prices of housing, according to an international report by the consulting company Knight Frank.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria is preparing to launch a procedure to award an oil and gas prospecting and exploration permit in Tervel offshore block in the Black Sea, the energy ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry provided no further details in a statement issued after a meeting between energy minister Temenuzhka Petkova and Xavier Faugeras, general manger of Total E&P Bulgaria, which is carrying out exploration works in the 1-21 Han Asparuh offshore block. France's Total... Читать дальше...

Azerbaijan’s defense minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria in Azerbaijan Nikolay Yankov, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a message July 9.

SOFIA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian authorities have neutralized an illegal factory for the production of chopped tobacco and arrested five suspects, the country's Ministry of Interior said in a statement here on Tuesday.

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has opened a new plasma melting plant that will treat and dispose of radioactive waste at its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Tuesday.

MOVING STUFF BY air may be quick and convenient, but it’s also horridly expensive, accounting for just 1 percent of global shipping by volume—and 35 percent of it by cost. So while autonomous drones dropping a few pounds of snacks or medical supplies are generating plenty of buzz, two Bulgarian brothers see an opening in the long-haul business. And they think they’ve got the tech to start flying hundreds of pounds of cargo over hundreds of miles, no pilot or 747 required.

BBC - A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said.