Former Sydney schoolboy John Zahariev, sentenced to four years’ jail by a Bulgarian court for training as an ISIS terrorist, has fallen a victim to a “honey-trap”, set by glamorous blonde shooter Kristina Georgieva, who accompanied him on one of his trips. This has been revealed by an investigation of News Corp Australia and Balkan Reporter and backed by claims of Mr Zahariev's supporters. Allegedly lured by her charms, John Zahariev was more than excited to practice shooting with a Kalashnikov with her at a local shooting range in a village outside the tourist city of Plovdiv.

An interview with Australian Jock Palfreeman, sentenced to 20 years in jail for murder in Bulgaria. He had already served half his sentence and was eligible for parole in December 2017, but did not believe he would be released.

Australian man John Zahariev has been found guilty by a Bulgarian court of terrorism offences and sentenced to four years in jail.  The Sofia Special Criminal Court found Zahariev, 21, guilty of training as a terrorist with the intention of carrying out a terrorist act. He was ordered to spend four years in a Bulgarian jail — half the maximum sentence for this offence under Bulgarian law. His mother Anne Ngo, who is fighting cancer, was in court. Reporting from Sofia Special Criminal Court for News Corp Australia.

As English rock star Phil Collins published his memoirs "Not Dead Yet" in October 2016, an investigation in the UK and Bulgaria revealed the identity of a man who played a pivotal part in his story, but was kept secret for more than 40 years.

Michael Burberry, scion of the world-renowned Burberry fashion design family, is the mysterious man the rock star's first wife Andrea had an affair with during her disturbing marriage.

Despite the millions of words that have been written about Collins over the intervening 40 years, this man was never named before.

The investigation found Mr Burberry, belonging to the well-known Establishment family who founded one of Britain's best-known brands of clothing, enjoying a Bohemian lifestyle in sunny Bulgaria.

An on-the-ground investigation of the murder of Jan Bennett, 67, from Bristol, who was attacked and killed on August 1 2015 in the village of Malomir, south-east Bulgaria, where she had moved two months earlier. The investigation was conducted as prosecutors in Bulgaria were seeking the most “severe” sentence against the man accused of raping and murdering the British woman. Less than a month after the suspect Ivan Georgiev, 41, was sentenced, he took his own life in prison. 

British teacher Ethan McKen, 24, died on August 8 2015, just hours after arriving at the Bulgarian holiday resort of Sunny Beach and going for a swim. Reporting from Bulgaria for the Daily Mail, contacting witnesses, lifeguards on the beach, sources at the police, the local medical center and the toxicology department. 

The exodus of Syrians to Europe has fueled worries over security and control at EU's external border in Bulgaria. An investigation by Hospodářské noviny and Aktuálně.cz probed how Bulgaria, situated on one of the three primary migration routes, deals with attempts to be converted into a transit point for illegal migrants and jihadist fighters from both sides.

Zlatka is one of a growing number of Roma migrants, who beg on the streets of Stockholm, challenging Sweden’s reputation as one of Europe’s most tolerant and welcoming nations. A team of  Sveriges Television SVT tracked down Zlatka's family in Bulgaria, in a village close to the Danube town of Vidin on the border with Romania. A region that should have good conditions for trade, tourism and agriculture has been turned into the poorest region in the EU after the fall of the communist regime. The Swedish journalists found no evidence that the begging was organized, other than in the form of a family trip.

"The Dublin Pitfall" is a documentary addressing the consequences of the Dublin Regulation on Syrian refugees in Europe. The film narrates the stories of five Syrians who fled for their lives but experienced worse conditions in their host country, Bulgaria. Added to that are the limitations imposed on them by European regulations, known as the Dublin Regulation. Produced and directed by Rime El Jadidi, a journalist based in Casablanca, Morocco.

Am Sonntag wird in Bulgarien gewählt. Die neue Regierung wird eine entscheidende Weiche stellen müssen; denn Sofia ist zerstritten mit der EU-Kommission in Brüssel. Grund ist das wegen Korruption eingefrorene Projekt einer Gaspipeline South Stream.

Bulgaria has been hit hard by years of migration and demographic decline, leaving dozens of villages literally with few or no people living there.

A detailed coverage for Australia's leading media of the trial against Jock Palfreeman. sentenced to 20 years in jail for murder in Bulgaria.

The happy and promising life of 20-year-old law student Andrei Monov was cut short brutally in the early hours of December 28, 2007 after he was fatally stabbed by Sydney man Jock Palfreeman in a street brawl in the center of Bulgarian capital, Sofia.

The lives of the two families from Bulgaria and Australia were devastated after the murder and they clashed in court in a desperate search for justice.

Palfreeman was sentenced to 20 years after a Bulgarian court found him guilty of murder with hooliganism and attempted murder in late 2009. The Sydney man later lost his jail appeal.

The citizens of Gabrovo, a hard-luck but endearing Bulgarian town at the foot of the central Balkans, where the father of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was born, have been caught up in the excitement of the newly found notoriety.

Bulgarian archaeologists' discovery of relics purported to be John the Baptist turned into a huge sensation, provoking both interest and skepticism. A team of Brazilian TV channel Globo TV set off on a trip for St. Ivan Island, off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, where the remains were found.