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BBC News - Convicted prisoners to get vote after European ruling: "Thousands of convicted UK prisoners are to get the right to vote after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the present ban was unlawful.
Sources told the BBC the government had exhausted all legal avenues fighting the 2005 decision and an announcement is expected later this week.
Lawyers have said a failure to comply could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in legal costs and compensation."
Bulgaria: Bulgarian FBI Seizes Illegal Box-Sets Worth EUR 19 M - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency: "Bulgaria's Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) has busted Bulgarian producers of pirate CDs and DVDs worth EUR 19 M, the Interior Ministry has announced.
Police officers from the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Europol have participated in the international operation. They were alarmed about the an illegal box-sets production on Bulgarian territory at the beginning of October.
The police established that the pirate CDs and DVDs came from two legal production lines in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and the city of Plovdiv and were intended for distribution in the Netherlands.
The Dutch police have seized boxes, containing box-sets with the newest music, movies, software, games, TV shows, etc."
