Bucharest
ROMANIANS AT MONGOL RALLY Mamaliga Warriors kick of their adventure to Mongolia
Team Mamaliga [Polenta] Warriors leave to London on Wednesday to begin their trip in the Mongol Rally, the world's biggest charity rally; their luggage includes the usual indispensable items - a tent, backpacks, a toolkit - and also one pot, one guitar, and one ukulele.
Criminals to pay 18 mln euros over art heist at Kunsthal Museum
Four Romanians behind a spectacular art heist in the Netherlands were ordered July 14 to pay 18 million euros, with the fate of the stolen masterpieces by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Lucien Freud still a mystery.
Flight drills in Bucharest skies Tuesday and Thursday for Romanian Air Force Day celebration
Romanian Air Force aircraft will perform flight drills on Tuesday and Thursday as of 18:00 hours in the skies above Bucharest, in preparation of the Romanian Air Force Day that is celebrated on July 20, informs a release sent to AGERPRES by the Ministry of National Defence.
ForMin: 84 Romanian nationals and families assisted back home from Gaza Strip on their request
A group of 84 Romanian nationals and their families have asked to return back home from Gaza Strip on Monday, with the group to get to Romania later in the day, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced in a release to AGERPRES.
The Romanians will be flown back home by two Defence Ministry aircraft — a C 130 Hercules and C 27 J Spartan respectively, it added.
Dr. House plays gig in Bucharest, diagnosis is simple: It's not lupus, it's blues!
Hugh Laurie and The Copper Bottom Band played wonderful blues and jazz at Palace Hall in the Romanian capital Saturday night, also sprinkled with old music history stories and a few small glasses of whisky.
Coach crashes on A2 motorway, injures 15; three in serious condition
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Tennis: Roberta Vinci qualifies to BRD Bucharest Open final
Second seed Roberta Vinci (Italy) advanced to the final of the BRD Bucharest Open WTA tour by defeating 6-1, 6-3 Kristina Kucova (Slovakia) on Saturday, at the National Bank Arenas of Bucharest.
Roman Catholic archdiocese asks President's intervention for court sentence enforcement
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest (ARCB) asserts that authorities drag their feet in enforcing a one-and-a-half year old court sentence requiring them to demolish the Cathedral Plaza building, erected near the St. Joseph Metropolitan Cathedral; in a release to AGERPRES on Saturday, ARCB repeats its demand to President Traian Basescu's intervention in the matter.
Nikopol, Turnu Magurele Best Location for New Danube Bridge - Experts
The best location for the construction of the third bridge over the Danube river connecting Bulgaria and Romania is at Nikopol – Turnu Magurele, according to the experts.
Voiculescu shows up in court for consideration of his request to switch jurisdiction over ICA case
Founding chairman of the Conservative Party (PC) Dan Voiculescu on Friday showed up at the Supreme Court of Justice, where judges were to consider a request filed by him for a switch in the jurisdiction over the privatisation of the Food Research Institute (ICA) from the Bucharest Court of Appeal to another court.