One of the most fascinating and controversial scientific experiments, involving the largest particle accelerator ever built, was scheduled to be held in Switzerland on September 10 2008 - and of the team of more than 6000 scientists involved, 100 are from Bulgaria.

In a story especially written for The Sofia Echo published on September 12, science correspondent Bozhidar Stefanov explains the meaning of the experiments involving the "God particle".

Elsewhere in the newspaper, Elitsa Grancharova reports on the swathe of fires that have scorched large areas of some of Bulgaria's most precious nature areas, Petar Kostadinov keeps score on the deadly game of competition among certain interests in Bulgarian football, and Spasena Baramova outlines the latest engagements in bilateral relations between Turkey and Armenia.

In the business section of this week's The Sofia Echo, Elitsa Savova tracks developments in Bulgaria's media market while Alex Bivol examines the vexed issue of the country's Budget surplus. There is a special two-page spread on Bulgaria's property market.

The features section includes David Clark musing on how he does like to be beside the seaside while our columnists page includes this week's contributions by Rene Beekman and Alex Bivol and the debut column by Rory Parsons.

The Sofia Echo, of course, offers its regular restaurant and venue reviews, listings on what's on in entertainment, at the cinema and on television, while there is a full page of photographs from the first - and highly popular - Andy's Foods-expatinbulgaria.com Expat BBQ at JJ Murphy's. Our sports section has a report, with photographs on the One Life Charity Golf Day at St Sofia Golf Club and Spa.

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