Transport

The aircraft wing fragment found on Reunion Island last week belongs to the missing MH370 plane, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on Wednesday.

Combined sales of cars and light commercial vehicles grew by 38 percent in July over the previous year, the Automotive Distributors Association said on Aug. 5.

Car sales numbered 64,218, and light commercial vehicles were at 19,618, an increase of more than 47 percent. Total Turkish sales were 83,836 in July, according to the report from the association.

Low-cost carrier Wizz Air launches flights from Sofia to 4 new destinations in March 2016.

The new destinations include Alicante in Spain, Bristol in the UK, Hamburg Lubeck in Germany, and Oslo in Norway, the company announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

The airline is to operate these flights with the sixth Airbus A320, which is yet to arrive in Bulgaria.

Voluntourism

Citing analyses of the World Bank, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has suggested that Bulgaria needs to substantially increase investments in roads and to increase road tolls.

Bulgarian traffic police have intercepted 158 car drivers sitting behind the wheel after having drunk alcohol in just two days, BGNES reported on Tuesday,

A total of 6,325 motorists were tested for drunk driving in a nationwide police operation carried out between 31 July and 2 August, at the peak of summer holidays.

Britain's government promised new measures on August 3 to crack down on illegal immigrants by making landlords evict them, as the Calais migrants crisis continued to dominate the headlines.

Migrants in Calais made around 1,700 attempts overnight to penetrate the Channel Tunnel premises in a bid to get to England, French police sources said August 3, and an officer sustained facial injuries from a stone.

Malaysian aviation experts were to meet their French counterparts and judges on August 3 to coordinate the investigation into missing flight MH370, days after the discovery of a washed-up plane part offered fresh hopes of solving the mystery.

French riot police clashed with migrants overnight who tried to storm the fences and pass the Channel Tunnel to Britain. The migrants managed to tear down several security fences before charging the final fence before the entrance to the 50km Channel Tunnel. French Police repelled them by using spray and physical force.