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German airline Lufthansa said Friday its planes would no longer use Iranian airspace as it extended a suspension on flights to and from Tehran amid soaring Middle East tensions.

"Due to the current situation, Lufthansa is suspending its flights to and from Tehran up to and including Thursday, 18 April," a company spokesperson said Friday.

MELBOURNE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis singles, on Tuesday completed his first training session at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne ahead of Australian Open, the season's first Grand Slam tournament.

Reigning champion Djokovic recently arrived in Melbourne from Perth, where he played for Serbia at the United Cup.

PERTH - The Serbia national tennis team is out of the United Cup after Natalija Stevanovic lost 6-1, 6-1 to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic in Perth on Wednesday.

Winning after only 65 minutes of play, Tomljanovic handed Australia a decisive 2-0 lead in the quarter-final tie against Serbia.

Stevanovic was a stand-in for Olga Danilovic.

PERTH - Serbia are through to the quarter-finals of the tennis United Cup after a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic in Perth on Tuesday.

Olga Danilovic and Hamad Medjedovic won the tie for Serbia by defeating the Czech mixed double of Miriam Kolodziejova and Petr Nouza 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 10-8.

PERTH - The Serbian mixed double of Olga Danilovic and Novak Djokovic defeated the Chinese pair of Zheng Qinwen and Zhang Zhizhen 6-4, 1-6, 10-6 in Perth on Sunday, handing Serbia a 2-1 win over China in the United Cup Group E Round 2.

A Bulgarian with two heart and kidney transplants conquered the highest peak in Africa - Uhuru (5895 meters) in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Georgi Peev from Haskovo announced his success, which was achieved this morning at 6:36 a.m. Bulgarian time, on his Facebook page.

The last of nearly 100 whales that beached on the southwestern Australian coast were euthanized on July 26 after a second day of frantic, but unsuccessful efforts to rescue them, authorities said.

The pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded themselves on July 25 on Cheynes Beach east of the former whaling station of Albany in Western Australia state, south of the capital Perth.

Authorities were investigating on July 18 whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign rocket.

Police had cordoned off the barnacle-encrusted object after it was discovered at Green Head about 250 kilometers north of the city of Perth late on July 16.

Packages of the cocaine seized by Australian police on the cargo ship St Pinot. Photo: Australian Federal Police.Photo: Australian Federal Police

Australian authorities reported that Pinot's captain, M. B., and its chief engineer, R.V., both from Montenegro, were charged with smuggling cocaine worth 375 million US dollars, believed to have come from South America.

Australia's Crown Resorts has agreed to pay a civil penalty of Aus$450 million ($290 million) for breaches of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing legislation at two of its casinos.