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The Bulgarian capital Sofia is the fifth most dangerous city in Europe and the most dangerous in the European Union, a study shows.

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev and Belgrade have bottomed the personal safety ranking in a recent report of US think-tank Mercer.

Travel company Thomas Cook will add more than 50 000 airline seats to the airports of Varna and Burgas in 2016, Bulgaria's biggest Black Sea cities, media outlets report.

According to Greek English-language website Tornos News, there will be two flights a week between Burgas and Frankfurt and one connecting Burgas with Rostock, Leipzig and Berlin respectively.

Ferocious talks emerged in Germany and other European countries over the sexual assaults against women occurred by men of Arab or North African origin on New Year Eve’s  in five German cities and other cities in Europe.

German people demand explanations from German authorities about the handling of the attacks and ask them to reveal the identity of the perpetrators.

The massive sexual attacks occurred on New Year’s Even in Cologne, Germany are proven to be large-scale incidents, since similar assault were recorded in at least four other German cities, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

Bulgaria's government has appointed Werner Jostmeier as the country's Honorary Consul in Germany with consular district the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Werner Jostmeier is member of the provincial parliament (Landtag) of North Rhine-Westphalia. He will be headquartered in Münster.

Greek-German mezzo soprano Stella Doufexis died, aged 47. Born in Frankfurt, she studied in Berlin at the Hochschüle der Künste with Ingrid Figur as well as working with Anna Reynolds. She also attended masterclasses by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann.

A Turkish-origin football player in Germany has been slammed over sexist remarks made on social media after a recent match officiated by a woman referee, German media has reported.

Most flights between the Bulgarian capital and the airports in Frankfurt and Munich operated by Lufthansa are cancelled as the strike of the flight attendants of the German airline continues on Thursday.

The continuing strike of flight attendants of Lufthansa cancelled all flights operated by the German airline between the Bulgarian capital of Sofia and the airports in Frankfurt and Munich on Wednesday.

Eight flights between the Bulgarian capital and the airports in Frankfurt and Munich will be cancelled on Monday as the strike of flight attendants of Lufthansa continues.

The strike will not affect two of the scheduled flights between Sofia and Munich, the airport of the Bulgarian capital informed, daily Dnevnik reports.