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, ...

In an apparent effort to crack down on underage brides, Bulgaria, home of the world's youngest eleven-year-old mother, has delivered a guilty verdict on a man, who married a fifteen-year-old girl. K ...

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 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 ...

It was double bonanza for an eleven-year-old Bulgarian schoolgirl who recently got married and gave birth to a baby girl on her wedding day. Bride Kordeza went into labour during her wedding to ...

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 ...

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 ...

With her eyes tightly shut and her face covered with paint, sequins and paper flowers, Bulgarian bride Fatme Inus followed centuries of tradition in her village when she married her groom yesterday.