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Grandmother Sylvia Pope of Swansea, South Wales, decorates her home for the holidays. She uses a whopping 2,530 ornaments to cover her living room ceiling. Each year, she tops up ornaments, with 766 more this year than last year.

Bulgaria's Ruse has been granted one of the European City of Sport 2016 awards at a gala ceremony in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Statista examines the best university experience from around the world. The QS Best Student Cities 2015 report assesses cities based on several factors including their “student mix”, “desirability” and “employer activity”.

Lawmakers in the Czech Republic have overwhelmingly rejected a permanent migrant relocation mechanis among EU member states.

MPs, however, have also turned down a proposal to file a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice against the EU over the currently approved quotas plan.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said that Bulgaria is to present a joint tourism product with "neighboring Balkan countries".

A newly-opened film institute in Macedonia's city of Ohrid will start teaching master classes in the academic year 2015/2016 starting in November, independent.mk has reported.

The Institute of Film-Film Academy Ohrid will offer three-year master programmes in English in two departments: screenplay writing and dramaturgy, and creative production.

Up to three people are feared dead following an explosion at a firearms ammunition factory in the Czech Republic on Monday, CTK reported.

The blast of gunpowder occurred at the Sellier & Bellot factory in the town of Vlasim, 60 km south of Prague.

Foreign ministers from four ex-Communist countries of eastern Europe are meeting on Monday with officials from the current EU president Luxembourg to declare their opposition to a proposal to introduce binding quotas for redistribution of migrants among EU member states.

Dacic: Sending migrants back to Serbia is unacceptable

Ivica Dacic says Serbia finds it "unacceptable" that Hungary would send migrants back while more and more are arriving from Macedonia and Greece.

Germany on Sept.11 will seek to mend bitter divisions over how to handle Europe's spiralling migrant crisis, pushing eastern states to accept a quota system it says is still only a "drop in the ocean".