Bulgaria

Three football players from Bulgaria's golden generation will join the show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hristo Stoichkov next year.

The first Bulgarian players to confirm their participation in the show are Nasko Sirakov, Yordan Letchkov and Lyuboslav Penev.

Together with Stoichkov, they were part of one of the most successful football generations in Bulgarian history.

A specialized website has ranked Bulgaria among twenty countries offering the world´s best WiFi services.

In terms of average download speed, Lithuania and Estonia have come first in a ranking published on UK-based tech watchdog Rotten WiFi's blog which includes tests of speed and quality of public hotspots in 184 countries.

The 43rd edition of the Sofia International Book Fair will take place at the National Palace of Culture (NDK) in the Bulgarian capital between December 8 and 13.

More than 200 publishing houses will be represented at the largest book forum in Bulgaria, which will feature more than 80 events - presentations, readings and discussions.

Any initiative targeting fanatism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism should be targeted, Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev said on Monday.

Attending a ceremony of lightting candles on the Hanukkah Menorah at the Sofia Synagogue, Plevneliev argued that even the worst of evils could be stopped when people of different religious background unite and say "no" to hatred.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia is covered by thick fog again on Tuesday morning, as the area is being hit by a cold spell over the past days.

Visibility is significantly reduced in neighborhoods and better in the central parts of the city.

On Monday, Sofia was among 9 regions where a Code Yellow alert was issued over dense fog.

Three Southeastearn European states are among the six countries in the world most affected by extreme weather events last year, according to environmental group Germanwatch's Global Climate Risk Index (CRI).

The index [PDF] analyses the impacts of extreme weather events both in terms of fatalities and of losses incurred by the economy.

A man was detained on Monday evening after a shootout in a boulevard not far from the center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia left two people injured.

The wounded men, 21 and 30, have a criminal record, police said. They were taken to hospital after being shot in the legs.

Bulgaria reaffirmed on Monday its support for Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty as well as the country's aspirations to join the EU and NATO.

The lawyer of Bulgaria's weightlifting federation believes that a doping ban imposed on Bulgarian weightlifters will be overturned in time for them to take part in the 2016 Olympics, Reuters has reported.

With Bulgaria strengthening its border security measures, migrants crossing the country to Serbia en route to western Europe "face tougher checks from police," the BBC's Nick Thorpe says in a news report published on Sunday.