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Urgent repairs will be made to the National Library St. St. Cyril and Methodius, stated in an interview for bTV interim Culture Minister Rashko Mladenov.

Part of the ceiling of the library collapsed on Friday under the weight of melting snow and injured a reader.

Heavy snow was the reason for the collapse of the ceiling of the National Library St. St. Cyril and Methodius, reported BGNES.

Due to the weight of the snow, the glass ceiling of the library collapsed in one of the reading halls, known as reading hall 3.

The incident occurred about 17:00 hrs on Friday and one person was injured.

Investigators found a cache of weapons at the hideout of captured left-wing extremist Pola Roupa, officials said Sunday.

Police said they uncovered two assault rifles, two pistols and four grenades as well as bullets. They also found a significant amount of cash and impounded a car Roupa bought in December 2016.

In Greece, evidence of Orthodoxy Christianity, whose roots are intertwined with those of the nation, is everywhere: Countless churches, chapels and shrines, in squares, on mountain tops, in caves, carved into the rock, as if crafted by invisible, all-powerful hands, by the sea or in private spaces.

A newly-discovered sign reads that the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv was built in the 90's of the 1st century AD and not as previously thought between 116 and 117 AD, announced the Mayor of Plovdiv Ivan Totev and archaeologists Maya Martinova and Nikolay Sharankov, who read the sign.

A Bulgarian architect has made a documentary about the Glagolitic alphabet, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, daily 24 reports.

Plamen Miryanov, 27, has shot the film inside a derelict church in northwestern Bulgaria and the Prohodna cave in Stara Planina.

Australia is often held up as the paradigm for a multicultural society. Especially the Greek Diaspora has managed to integrate well and thrive in the land ‘down under’. However, the story of two young Greek girls is a reminder that sometimes following the letter of the law is not the most humane course of action.

The Noble Globetrotter II will start drilling for oil and gas in the Black Sea block of Khan Asparuh off Bulgaria's coast early next month, Total's General Manager for Bulgaria, Xavier Faugeras, has announced.

National qualifications of the world's major Chinese proficiency competition for foreign university students were held in Bulgaria on Sunday, Xinhua news agency has said.

Six competitors took part, showing their fluency and eloquence, also playing quiz games on language and culture and displaying artistic skills.

The inhabitants of the Bulgarian village of Momchilovtsi in the Rhodope mountains celebrated the feast day of Saint Stephen on Sunday by unveiling a chapel dedicated to the first Christian martyr.

The chapel was built by 270 people bearing the name of Stephen or its derivatives, private bTV station informs.