STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria — Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger sisters in a provocative ...

A Roma girl poses during an open-air 'bride market' in the central village of Mogila, on March 12. The "bride market" -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and ...

RIBNOVO, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Fikrie Sabrieva, 17, will marry with her eyes closed and her face painted white, dotted with bright sequins. She lives 'at the end of the world', tending a hardy Muslim ...

Ahead of events commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary in July, a look back at how Americans celebrated the Bicentennial in 1976.

The communists tried hard to stamp out the culture of Bulgaria's rural Pomak minority, and since then tough times in the European Union's poorest country have made many leave, but one village is ...

The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stalls are nowhere to be seen among the milling patrons. Instead, young ...