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Commuters in Athens and Thessaloniki wait for buses, trains and trams an average of 39 minutes a day though their counterparts in traffic-congested Rome have an even longer daily wait, according to a survey by Moovit, a mobile GPS application for public transport information and navigation, which found that travelers in Barcelona, Milan and Paris enjoy the most efficient transport services.

Bulgaria will not host any matches of the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship, according to an announcement of UEFA.

UEFA announced the 13 venues that would host matches for the championship after a meeting of its executive committee in Geneva on Friday.

Sofia was one of the 19 candidates to host matches of Euro 2020 but it failed to make it among the 13 winners.

ROME, BELGRADE - The measures announced by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will spur economic growth and heal the Serbian economy in the next year or two, the president of the Italian Society for International Organisations Franco Frattini said on Friday.

Multi-level marketing company Amway is to invest USD 0.5 M into launching a business in Bulgaria.

Amway is to set foot on the Bulgarian market in June 2014 with an initial investment of USD 0.5 M, according to reports of investor.bg.

The company will start a series of online and offline trainings of its distributors under the platform Amway Academy.

Many Bulgarians will spend the long weekend including September 22, Bulgarian Independence Day, in one of the neighboring countries.

Every third tourist who will travel abroad for the holidays chooses to go to Greece, according to Bayko Bajkov, head of the Association of Bulgarian Tour Operators and Travel Agents (ABTTA), Standart news informs.

Archaeologists set out Monday to use a revolutionary new deep sea diving suit to explore the ancient shipwreck where one of the most remarkable scientific objects of antiquity was found.

The so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world’s oldest computer, was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean.

BELGRADE - Milan Galic, Serbian and Yugoslav football legend, has died suddenly at the age of 76 in Belgrade.

Galic, who passed away on Saturday, began his brilliant football career at FK Proleter in Zrenjanin. He made himself a big name during his years with FK Partizan from Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic and National Armaments Director of the Italian Defence Ministry Enzo Stefanini have agreed that relations between the two countries are traditionally friendly with a high level of defence cooperation.

The liturgical feasts of Saints Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are to be observed on October 11 and October 22, respectively.

L'Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican City State, has published the decree signed by Cardinal Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera which makes the feast days official.

TAROM Airlines, in a release to AGERPRES on Thursday, informed that it is going to introduce an additional number of flights, during the 2014-2015 winter season, on four of its already existing routes.

Thus, the Bucharest-Rome-Bucharest route will have two extra flights added, reaching thus to six weekly flights.