Belgrade - Serbian basketball star Vlade Divac was Tuesday named as the president of Serbia's Olympic committee, local media reported.

Divac was named president after his opponent, incumbent OC president Ivan Curkovic withdraw his candidacy.

Divac won several World and European titles with Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. He also won the European club championship with Partizan Belgrade and had an prominent career spanning longer than 15 years in the US national basketball association (NBA).

Belgrade - Serbian basketball star Vlade Divac was Tuesday named as the president of Serbia's Olympic committee, local media reported.

Divac was named president after his opponent, incumbent OC president Ivan Curkovic withdraw his candidacy.

Divac won several World and European titles with Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. He also won the European club championship with Partizan Belgrade and had an prominent career spanning longer than 15 years in the US national basketball association (NBA).

Belgrade - Serbian police were set Sunday to question reporters over the disclosure of a secret state plan to spend one million dollars to keep a fugitive from US justice authorities, Belgrade newspapers said Sunday.

Police said they were seeking the owner and chief editor of the daily Borba over a report that Serbia would pay to relieve pressure for the extradition of Miladin Kovacevic, charged last May over a near-fatal assault of a fellow student in the United States.

Belgrade - British actor Ralph Fiennes said Friday that he will most probably shoot his directorial debut, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, in Belgrade next spring - if he can find the financing.

Fiennes, set to open 37th Belgrade International Film Festival on Friday night, told journalists that the Serbian capital, with its combination of 19th century and communist architecture and new buildings, would be an ideal location for Coriolanus.

Belgrade - Serbia on Friday leveled the price of highway tolls for local and foreign vehicles, meeting a commitment it took on nearly seven years ago.

The double-standard which Serbia applied, charging foreign vehicles in its highways nearly twice as much as those registered in Serbia, led to a row with Athens which stranded more than 100 Serbian haulers in Greece over several days.

Belgrade promised to level the cost for all on February 5, but ordered the implementation of the promise on a regular government session Thursday.

Belgrade  - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, in an unusual interview with Friday's edition of the conservative Belgrade daily Politika, called on Serbia to acknowledge the "fact they are facing" and recognize Kosovo.

"Nobody in Belgrade believes Kosovo could return to become a part of Serbia. Serbian politicians face the fact of our independence everywhere they go, to Washington, Brussels, even in Podgorica and Skopje," Thaci said.

Kosovo, with a 90-per cent Albanian majority, declared independence from Serbia a year ago with the support of leading Western nations.