Dracula's castle - or, in actuality, Hunedoara Castle, where the father of Vlad III, also known as the Vlad The Impaler, was imprisoned for seven years, opened to the public on June 1st. It is located in Transylvania, Romania.

Romanian authorities had to slaughter 90 hens and ducks on a small farm in Romania's eastern Danube Delta to prevent bird flu from spreading.

Ford Motor Company has reached agreement with the Romanian government for the purchase of the Craiova vehicle manufacturing plant in the south-west of the country.

On Monday, July 30, 2007, the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America was informed that His Beatitude, Patriarch Teoctist, Primate of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Romania, had died at the age of 92.

A major heat wave continues today across Southeastern Europe after record temperatures on July 24 that killed at least 12 people in Romania.

European Union newcomers Bulgaria and Romania got some tough criticism from the European Commission. The EU's executive body told the Balkan states that they have made insufficient progress in fighting corruption -- and that they risk sanctions in the future if they do not meet detailed benchmarks.

A report released Friday by the Council of Europe confirms that the CIA has used interrogation centers in Europe, including in Romania and Poland, to secretly hold and torture prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the globe.

Romania and Poland allowed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA, to operate secret prisons within their borders where agents interrogated suspected terrorists, according to a report released today by Dick Marty, an investigator for the Council of Europe.

A small Romanian movie, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", directed by a man hardly known outside his country, has won the Palme d'Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

Romania's suspended President Traian Basescu will be reinstated after he won a referendum on impeachment. Romanians rejected by 74.4 to 24.8 percent on Saturday parliament's proposal to remove Basescu from office.

Romanians have voted overwhelmingly against a government and opposition effort to set the stage for an impeachment of President Traian Basescu for perceived interference in politics.

Romanians have been voting in a referendum on whether to remove President Traian Basescu from office. The turnout has been relatively low, with just some 23 percent of the country's 18 million voters going to polling stations by mid-afternoon.