Benidorm, Spain  - The first day of play between title- holders Spain and Serbia was put off Friday after strong winds damaged the stadium, officials at the International Tennis Federation confirmed.

Powerful gusts had "blown off some of the rows of the stands" and impacted the stability of the stadium, said Soren Frienel of the ITF. Officials were hoping that play could begin Saturday in the eastern Spanish Mediterranean resort town of Benidorm.

Pristina - Some 200 Kosovo Serbs blocked on Thursday all access to a Kosovo police station in the northern town of Leposavic, after the announcements that the director of Kosovo police and an official of the European Union would visit.

Police director of the European Union's law enforcing mission in Kosovo (Eulex) Reiner Kuehn and Kosovo police director Sherement Ahmeti visited the Kosovo-Serbia border crossing in Leposavic earlier but when they tried to enter the police station in the city they were stopped by the demonstrators.

Belgrade  - The late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who died while on a genocide trial at the United Nations war crimes tribunal, was "the hero of all heroes," a government minister was quoted as saying by Monday's press in Belgrade.

"Of course he's the greatest hero. The verdicts against heroes who defended their country are shameful - and how a country is defended was shown best by Milosevic, the whole world saw that," the daily Blic quoted the Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjic.

Belgrade  - Serbian politicians and media on Friday vehemently criticise the United Nations war crimes tribunal over the sentencing it handed to officials from Slobodan Milosevic's regime for a campaign of terror they commanded against Kosovo Albanians a decade ago.

The court cleared the former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, but sentenced the ex-Yugoslav deputy premier Nikola Sainovic and four army and police generals to between 15 and 22 years in prison.

Belgrade - Serbia has launched a probe into alleged atrocities against the former Yugoslav army in Bosnia and issued arrest warrants against 19 people, including former top Muslim and Croat leaders in Sarajevo, officials said Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Serbian war crimes prosecutor, Ivana Ramic, confirmed for radio B92 that an investigation was underway against people suspected of committing war crimes early in the 1992-95 conflict, but refused to provide details.

The suspects allegedly committed war crimes against prisoners and using banned means of combat.

Declining to provide more details, Ramic only named an ambush on an army column in Sarajevo which left 42 soldiers, mostly conscripts, dead and more than 70 wounded in May 1992.

Belgrade - The long awaited documentary "Maradona" by award winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica delighted the crowds at Belgrade's International Film Festival, in a country that mostly shares the anti-Western sentiments with the famous footballer.

The "hand of God" England versus Argentina match dominates the documentary, which premiered on Tuesday night in a packed Belgrade cinema, and serves as a platform to the "anti-imperialist" political views of both Maradona and Kusturica.

The viewers were mostly amused and entertained by the documentary, but some complained at the lack of more biographic data.