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Hungarian investigators have found a highly inflammable substance in a bag purportedly containing a homemade bomb which was found on a bus traveling from Prague to Varna.

The bus had a majority of Bulgarian passengers and a Bulgarian driver. The suspicious package was found while the vehicle had stopped in Budapest. No-one was injured.

Bulgarian actor Julian Kostov, who lives and works in London will participate in a modern remake of the classic Biblical epic Ben-Hur. The filming of the project is ongoing and it is expected that the ready film will be released in cinemas in 2016.

The director of the movie is the Russian-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov, Monitor daily reported.

Bulgaria's police on Wednesday launched a large-scale operation in Sofia to arrest members of an organized crime group, the Interior Ministry said.

Bulgarians had only four occasions for optimism since the darkest moments of the transition, shows a survey of the Gallup International agency, presented on the occasion of the 25-th anniversary of the fall of Todor Zhivkov from power.

A milder and more ordinary elections campaign leading to October 5's snap poll should be expected this year, sociologist Andrey Raychev believes.

He told the Bulgarian National Television that the "main scandal" that recently rocked Bulgaria had already been left behind.

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov on Thursday said there are two options to rescue the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB).

Firefighters, police officers and rescue workers protested in Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna on Saturday against the new rules regulating their work, reports Dnes.bg.

The protest was sparked by a new draft regulation slimming down a firefighter team down to two people. 

Two Bulgarians, who were sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Malaysia, will appear in court for the hearing of their appeal, reports the Bulgarian channel Nova TV.

A year and a half ago Ivan Kostov and Georgi Bakalov were arrested at the airport and were sentenced to death for allegedly trafficking 5 kg of amphetamine, found in their luggage.