YEAR IN REVIEW: Eat well

Our own selection of five restaurants, in no particular order, where our taste buds were wowed in 2008: Kring Health Food Restaurant, Brasserie, Osteria di Sofia, Vagabond and Karibi in Sozopol.

January 2009: 20 year since French president Mitterrand visited Bulgaria

Come January 19 2009, it will have been 20 years since the then-president of France, François Mitterrand, visited Bulgaria and participated in what have become symbolic happenings for the country: a breakfast at the French embassy in Sofia with 12 Bulgarian intellectuals (or "dissidents", depending on whom is asked), and a talk at Sofia University. The French embassy in Bulgaria is marking the event with a series of events, ambassador Etienne de Poncins said at a news conference at the French Residence on December 19, noting that that week also co-incided with the end of France's rotating European Union Presidency.

INSIGHT: Road to the White House

Frequently asked questions about registration and absentee voting overseas

What is an election for federal office? An election for federal office is any general, special, runoff or primary election to select, nominate, or elect any candidate for the office of president, vice president, presidential elector, member of the United States senate, member of the United States house of representatives, delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, Virgin Islands and

A Christmas of warmth and cheer

Noel, Weihnachten, Natale, Navidad, Christmas, Koleda. Many names, yet only one emotion: an emotion of everlasting warmth and kindness. Still, an emotion that annually reaches out to millions of hearts worldwide occurs in never-repetitive forms: the customs of Africa, the celebrations in Asia or the fireworks in Paris. At home in Bulgaria, the feeling of cheerful togetherness at Christmas is achieved through the