
Romania unfurls largest flag in the world
A Romanian village on Monday unfurled what is the largest flag ever made, Guinness World Records said. It took about 200 people several hours Monday ...
18 injured when thunderstorm hits Romanian capital
Authorities say 18 people have been taken to hospitals, including one in a coma, after a tent collapsed when heavy rain and strong winds hit the ...
Romania orders retrial of football officials
Bucharest's highest court has ordered a retrial in the case of eight Romanian football officials who were sentenced to prison for tax evasion and ...
Rosol beats Garcia-Lopez to win Bucharest final
Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic beat Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-2 to win the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy for his first ATP title on Sunday.
Rosol, Garcia-Lopez reach Bucharest final
Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic ousted three-time champion Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday to reach his first career final at the BRD Tiriac ...
Gilles Simon reaches semifinals in Bucharest
Three-time champion Gilles Simon reached the semifinals of the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy on Friday, while top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic was eliminated.
Top seed Tipsarevic into Bucharest quarters
Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic marched into the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Santiago Giraldo of Colombia on Thursday
Searching for thieves, Romanian police raid sewers
Romanian police descended into Bucharest's sewers looking for suspects who broke into a Bucharest home and hid the loot underground. Police spokesman ...
Viktor Troicki advances to 2nd round in Bucharest
Viktor Troicki advanced to the second round of the Nastase Tiriac Trophy by beating Marinko Matosevic of Australia 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday.

5 free things in Romania's capital, Bucharest
It was founded by a shepherd, according to local legend, and was later nicknamed the Paris of the East. But Bucharest's idyllic roots and elegant ...
Hundreds of Romanian workers protest
Hundreds of workers have protested outside government offices in Bucharest to demand public funds to help rescue their ailing petrochemical plant in ...

3-year prison sentence for ex-Romanian diplomat
A Romanian court on Wednesday handed a three-year prison sentence to a former Romanian diplomat for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident in ...
Romania: alleged illegal trafficking of human eggs
Police questioned 30 people on Tuesday and searched the homes of six employees of a private fertility clinic who are suspected of illegally ...

Rescuer defends Romania's horses from slaughter
The name of his farm translates roughly as "Saving Horses from Wolves." But for Simion Craciun, the real predators are from the nearby slaughterhouse.
Court rules that ex Romanian ex-PM can be released
A court has ruled that a former Romanian prime minister who shot himself in the neck as police came to pick him up to serve a two-year prison sentence ...

Romania: Slaughterhouses did not commit fraud
A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food — enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to ...
China honors Romania's former Securitate Chief
China's embassy in Bucharest has ruffled feathers by honoring the last chief of Romania's much-loathed, communist-era secret police. Iulian Vlad, the ...

Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...

Dutch art heist detectives heading to Romania
Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in ...
Romanian ex-official can be extradited to US
A Romanian court has ruled that a former defense ministry official indicted in the U.S. for trying to illegally export military equipment to Iran can ...
Romanian plane struck by lightning on landing
A plane belonging to Romanian national air carrier has been struck by lightning as it landed in Istanbul. Nobody was injured. Tarom airlines said the ...
Court to rule on request to release Romanian ex-PM
A court will rule on a petition for the early release of former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase who sensationally shot himself after being ...
Baltazar, Romania banker, ex-gov't spokesman, dies
A hospital spokesman says influential banker Bogdan Baltazar, who became Romania's first government spokesman after communism collapsed, has died.

Communist palace draws pop stars and presidents
Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator ...