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MONTE CARLO - Serbia's Novak Djokovic made an easy job of Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta 6-0, 6-1 in Monte Carlo on Thursday to stroll into the quarterfinals of the ATP Masters tournament.

It took Djokovic only 47 minutes to defeat the world No. 62, just two minutes more than he needed to beat Busta's fellow-countryman Albert Montanes two days ago.

Grigor Dimitrov lost to Spain's David Ferrer 4:6, 2:6 in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters.

Despite starting well with a 2:0 lead, Dimitrov struggled to keep up with the aggressive shots of the world number 6 and conceded the first sed 4:6.

Fifty-six percent of Bulgarians think religion has a positive role in the society, shows a global survey of Gallup International. 

Twelve percent say the contrary. 

A global average of 59% of respondent have a positive opinion about the role of religion.

By George Georgakopoulos

Olympiakos played second fiddle to Real Madrid in a rather spectacular game in Spain on Tuesday going down 88-71 to trail 1-0 in the best-of-five quarterfinal series with the Spanish giant.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic began his Monte Carlo Masters title defence with a convincing 6-1, 6-0 second round win over Albert Montanes of Spain on Tuesday.

Djokovic got a buy in the first round, and he took only 46 minutes to improve to 6-0 against Montanes.

The prize money of the Monte Carlo tournament stands at EUR 3.4 million.

Some 253 thousand Bulgarians are unemployed, and are not actively seeking for a job, according to Eurostat latest data on potential additional labor force in the EU.

BOGOTA - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic reached the quarter-finals of the WTA tennis tournament in Bogota after beating Sofia Shapatava of Georgia 6-4, 6-3 late Thursday.

Preparations for turning in by C Market chief Radulovic to arrive from South America

The run away director of the C Market, Slobodan Radulovic (69) is expected to turn himself in to the Serbian authorities in a couple of days, the Blic learns.

Ship and crew prepared to neutralise Syria's chemical arsenal

Bulgaria's national football team dropped 6 places in the FIFA World Ranking and is now in 73rd position.

The reason behind this fall is none other than the lack of competitive matches over the past month. Bulgaria's only official fixture in 2014 was a 2:1 friendly win over Belarus in a friendly on March 5.