Bulgarian Patriarch to hold May 24 service
Sofia. Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Bishop Neofit is to head a church service for the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Script, May 24.

US bridge collapse sends cars, people into river
Los Angeles. A bridge carrying a freeway over a river in the northwestern US state of Washington partially collapsed Thursday, sending cars and people plunging into the water below, police said, cited by AFP.

Changeable cloudiness across Bulgaria on Friday
Sofia. Changeable cloudiness is predicted for Bulgaria on Friday, more frequently in Central and Eastern Bulgaria, Martin Slavchev, a weather forecaster on duty with the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of sciences, told FOCUS News Agency.