Good looks and virginity may have commanded so far high prices at Bulgaria's Roma bride market, but not any more as the crisis has pushed them further down than ever before. The tinkers of Thrace, ...

Scores of young Roma women were recently paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their ...

POSING for selfies and dancing around a bedroom, they could be your typical teens. But these young Roma women will have a different fate than most. Only the young women from Bulgaria’s Kalaidzhi — an ...

A couple of dozens of brides put on their dresses for a special “Brides’ Parade” in the Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse. The organizers have decided to make the brides’ parade an annual event in order ...

Scores of young Roma women have been paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their ...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

From the fires that devastated Los Angeles to deadly earthquakes in Myanmar and Afghanistan, a selection of photos recalls the tragic disasters that defined this year.