Madrid  - Spain remains opposed to the independence of Kosovo by "political conviction" and in line with international law, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday.

Zapatero spoke at a joint press conference with Serbian President Boris Tadic, who was on his first state visit to Spain.

Spain is one of the few countries not to have recognized the independence Kosovo declared in 2008, allegedly for fear that it could encourage separatist tendencies in Spanish regions.

Belgrade  - Serbia's most wanted war crime suspect, Ratko Mladic, has been hiding in a Belgrade apartment for a number of years, the Press daily said Monday quoting police sources.

The newspaper said Mladic, a Serb general wanted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of genocide, maintains contact with only one person, who brings food and medication to the flat in a Belgrade suburb, the paper said.

Pristina  - Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci on Sunday expressed a wish for conciliation with Serbia, inviting Serbian President Boris Tadic to the former Serbia province.

Thaci made the invitation after a visit to Kosovo's Serb enclave of Caglavica, a suburb of the capital Pristina.

Communication between Pristina and Belgrade is "unavoidable" and is in the interests of Kosovo, said Thaci.

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.