Pope Benedict's last gift for Transylvania: The 12 apostles' relics

Received as a gift from Pope Benedict XVI by Romanian cardinal Lucian Muresan, the urn containing relics of every one of the twelve apostles will journey across county Cluj from Friday, 15th March, 2013.

A new Kingdom of Romania? Very unlikely, says analyst

After the traumas left by a long political war in 2012, Romania celebrates on 1st January, 2013 her seventh birthday as an EU member, and prepares for a constitutional reform. Political analyst Cristian Ivanes examines the political future of the country in the European Union.

The American anthropologist Katherine Verdery had been denounced to the secret service of communist Romania in 1986 and 1987 by Andrei Marga -- an assistant professor in Cluj at the time.  Mr Marga was four times a minister and twice a university rector later, from 1993 to 2012.

UK-based Romanian Romanian theatre director Aristita Albacan believes that the Dada movement needs to be revived, for it can be the key that would help us cope with the 21st century. An interview by Marius Benta.

Health Ministry authorities agree that being diagnosed as HIV positive is not a detail that needs to be made public on a medical certificate. However, they fail to do anything about it.

An elderly woman in a caged bed shouts: 'Please, help me! I'm freezing!' A shocking scene has been filmed in an elderly care house ran by a respectable Transylvanian charity under the patronage of Saint Camillus.

After seven months of impossible cohabitation, President Traian Basescu accepted his political adversary Victor Ponta as prime minister.

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