Food and drink

Bulgaria has received BGN 60 M in advance payment from the European Commission to launch operational program Environment 2014-2020, according to Environment Minister Ivelina Vasileva.

Vasileva made clear Tuesday that the investments under the operational program were of strategic importance for the country and that they would give a boost to businesses.

International brewers are trickling into Myanmar, betting that higher incomes and economic reforms will whip up a thirst for foreign beer in a market that has long been dominated by state-owned firms.

Brooklyn-based designer Victoria Siemer, aka Witchoria, said that her coffee cup manipulations get her creative juices flowing. Using Photoshop she imagines world’s in her coffee.

On Oct. 31, 2014, a small bus carrying seasonal agriculture workers drove into a curve and fell into a ditch. The vehicle had twice as many passengers as its capacity; bodies and injured people were scattered around and 17 people died. 

California police are investigating a video showing actress/singer Ariana Grande licking donuts at a shop while sales assistants backs were turned. The leaked security footage shows her licking the donuts and then – when a new donut tray was brought out – saying: “What the f*** is that? I hate Americans. I hate America. That’s disgusting!”

Twenty-five percent of the vegetables and fruits we eat contain pesticides ? in other words, chemical residue, at a level much higher than acceptable, Akdeniz University has said. In a study the university has been conducting for three years, it was found that the rate of contaminated vegetables and fruit were increasing every year.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has opened a three-day tourist fair in the French capital Paris. The official slogan of the event is ''Bulgaria - Culture and Traditions''.

Bosnian farmers handed out food for free to the public in Sarajevo on Thursday, to express outrage over government inaction and draw attention to their plight.

The free handout was the work of the Union of Agricultural Associations in Bosnia's Federation entity.

Many of the workers in the bright-pink fields in this southwest Turkish province have an unexpected connection with the flowers they are tending. They are Syrian refugees working as itinerant laborers during Turkey's harvest of its prized Damascus rose. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept up with tradition and enjoyed Turkish döner as the eurozone grappled with the deepening Greece crisis