Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
Star who sold 100m records during rich and unpredictable career found collapsed at Paisley Parkhome outside Minneapolis. A postmortem examination will take place on Friday on the body of Prince, who died at his Paisley Park home aged 57, leaving behind him a gaping hole in musical genres as diverse as R&B, rock, funk and pop ... “Yes, it’s Prince” when asked if he was with the person ... Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video ... ....
Havana, Cuba (CNN)The Cuban government said it would scrap a long-standing ban on letting people born in Cuba come to the island by cruise ship, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported Friday. The change in policy appears to remove barriers to the first visit by a U.S. cruise ship to the island scheduled for next month. The CarnivalCruise Corp ...Obama calls for change and freedom in Cuba. JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... ....
because the Saudis didn’t want the Americans to interrogate him.“The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell ... They were very unhappy about the attention paid to that because they went in and it was just a hit,” Hersh said ... That was the plan,” Hersh said....
(Source. European Commission). The sums indicated refer to the total budget of the projects in euros. AUSTRIA (AT) (2 projects - 11.4 million). LIFENature & Biodiversity (2 projects - 11.4 million) ...Project summary ... LIFE ... The aim is to reduce acute threats to the black vulture (Aegypius monachus) and griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) and thus allow them to recover in the Bulgarian/Greek cross-border area of the Eastern Rhodope mountains....
If someone flawlessly executes a Beyoncé number in the middle of the remote RhodopeMountains with nobody there to see it, did it really happen? ...It's bizarre and oh-so beautiful. ... Also on HuffPost.. . Like . . . Follow . . Contact ... ....
B&B and guesthouse owners who go the extra mile deserve credit for making travel trips more pleasurable. Here, Guardian writers tip their hats to hosts with the most. Thierry and Estelle Violot-Guillemard. Les Nuits de Saint-Jean, Burgundy, France... Twitter ... John Brunton Nena Grintzia ... AndrewBostock The Rosenovi family ... We were used to good hosts in Bulgaria’s RhodopeMountains but in the village of Lyaskovo we found something unusual ... ....
In the final instalment of his road trip, Kevin Rushby visits Poland’s Baltic seaside finding pine-backed beaches, wilderness and a lot of pizza. • Week 1. Croatia Week 2. Albania Week 3. Bulgaria Week 4. Romania 5. Slovakia. The last leg of our 5,000-mile European tour started with a long drive north ... the pine forests of northern Greece, the vast uninhabited swathes of the BulgarianRhodope mountains and now, Poland’s forests ... Related ... ....
The deep gorges of Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains are said to hold the secret to health and long life – which comes in handy after a Shakira-induced injury. We were high in the Rhodope mountains of southern Bulgaria, one of Europe’s largest wildernesses, a place where wolves and bears can still be found, that is home to a scattering of hardy villages, mostly Turkish-influenced from the long presence of the Ottoman empire....
Bulgarians as a whole are very hospitable, but residents of the Rhodopes are particularly friendly to visitors, especially to travelers from overseas ... ....
By MatthiasWilliams and Tsvetelia Tsolova. ODRINTSI, Bulgaria (Reuters) - A self-described shaman who discovered the healing powers of herbs while seeing visions on his sickbed; a former consultant for IBM who ditched PowerPoint presentations to drive across Africa and an artist from Luxembourg who is a qualified plumber ... Before their arrival Odrintsi, in the Rhodope mountains near the Greek border, had a population of five....
To add to the allure the whole area is within the RhodopeMountains and I've managed to get a taxi for only $53.83 for a 3 � hour trip in late April ... The towering grey crags of Rhodope surge up on the left, a massive wall of ridges and folds pushing back into V-shaped valleys, more barren than those to the north of Xanthi....
In fact the birth of the man called the 'Father of Song' by the ancient Greek poet Pindar is generally held to have occurred in Pimpleia near Mt. Olympus...View over Xanthi from above old town ... And Xanthi is itself a high place of the Zeibekikos, one of Greece's vaunted dances ... Zeibekikos mansion ... A sea of red ribbed tiles sparkles in tiers against a background of deep green forests and the more distant grey crags of the RhodopeMountains....
No, not psycho-drama, nor social drama, but a town in Macedonia at the foot of the RhodopeMountains about an hour by bus from Kavala - thus called not for any Thespian reason but apparently shortened from its classical name Hydrama meaning rich in water, which it indeed is ...Drama is gateway to RhodopeNational Park, to visit which I'm now splurging $96.17 on a taxi ... Rhodope view at lower level ... Spring awakes in the Rhodope Mountains....