Sat, Nov 21 2009
NO BUTTS: A display of some of the 770 000 cigarettes confiscated by Germany's customs service, shown to journalists before the customs annual news conference in Munich, March 13 2007.

Police in the south-eastern Bulgarian village of Blatets confiscated contraband cigarettes said to be worth 1.5 million leva.
One of central Europe's largest cigarette manufacturers could become the subject of a legal wrangle about ownership between Bulgaria and Russia.
Bulgaria joins other countries in banning smoking in workplaces and public buildings
Half of pregnant women smoke, and almost every third person between 10 and 19, new figures say
Economic affairs committee advocates smaller increases than proposed by European Commission, foreseeing minimum 1.5 euro a pack by 2014
A ban on smoking in public places and workplaces in Bulgaria will come into effect on June 1 2010 should Parliament approve the amendments to the Public Health Act put forward by the Cabinet on November 20 2008. November 20 is the world non-smoking day. According to a statement on the Government's website, the Cabinet decided to suggest the amendments to the act, which will ban smoking in all public and private workplaces.
A travelling exhibition titled Life Without Tobacco Smoke arrived in Sofia after visiting 10 other Bulgarian cities, Focus news agency reported on November 10 2008. Featuring 48 artists from 19 countries, the exhibition presents 55 caricatures and it is a collaborative effort of the Health Ministry and the House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo. All works belong to the House's fund and come from Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Israel and Iran, among others.
The white tigress is a rare animal resulting from a special recessive gene
The agreement was signed in Brussels earlier this week but it's still a long way off before the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian brigade can be formalized as an international agreement.
Affected by quarantine and panic, life in Kyiv has been subdued in the past few weeks.
The number of Russians worrying about contracting the A(H1N1) flu virus grew to 70 per cent in November from 57 per cent in September.
The Polytechnic University or Politechniu in Greek, was the scene of a massacre in 1973, when Greek army tanks broke into the University and shot students indiscriminately, killing dozens of youths.