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SACRAMENTO - Vlade Divac, Serbian legendary basketball player and president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia, was named Sacramento Kings vice president of basketball and franchise operations, reads the club's website.

Divac will remain in office in the Olympic Committee of Serbia by the end of the next Olympic cycle, which ends after the Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Rafael Nadal won his first title in nearly nine months on March 1, beating Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-1 to win the Argentina Open.
      
Nadal's triumph was his first since he won a ninth French Open title at Roland Garros last June.
      

BELGRADE - Table tennis player Borislava Peric Rankovic and shooter Dragan Ristic were declared the best paralympic athletes of 2014 on Tuesday.

This year's ceremony of the Paralympics Committee of Serbia (POKS) held at the Belgrade City Assembly announced the best coach - athletics coach Vlastimir Golubovic, and the best team - women's table tennis team.

BELGRADE - Member of Serbia's taekwondo team Tijana Bogdanovic won a gold medal at the Fujairah Open G1 category tournament, held in Fujaira, UAE, on February 5-7.

Bogdanovic is the reigning European and world junior champion.

More than 100 artists will take part in a global "Live Earth" concert on June 18 to galvanise demands for climate action, former US vice president Al Gore said Jan. 21.
      
"We are going to have one event all over the world on all seven continents," he announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
      

BELGRADE - Dance artist Aleksandar Josipovic, the only Serb that performed at the Moulin Rouge, decided to stop dancing actively after 25 years of successful career.

The eight-time national champion, Josipovic achieved some of the highest attainments at global level, received a number of recognitions in the country and abroad where he successfully performed for a decade and a half.

LUCANI - Serbia's Minister of Youth and Sport Vanja Udovicic has said that the decision to accept Kosovo as a full member of the Internationa Olympic Committee (IOC) was very difficult for Serbia to accept.

Trio Pax, recently formed by three musicians, will play tonight for Turkish harpist Ceren Necipoğlu, who died in a plane crash in 2009 Trio Pax, a chamber music ensemble consisting of a flute, viola and harp, is preparing to give its first concert in remembrance of the late Turkish harpist Ceren Necipoğlu at the Notre Dame de Sion High School in Istanbul on Dec. 18.

New York’s MoMA examines uneven urban development in Turkey in a new exhibition, addressing six cities, including Istanbul As the result of a 14-month initiative to examine new architectural responses to rapid urban growth, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is currently presenting an exhibition that addresses the increasingly inequitable urban development in six world cities, including

Romanian athletics legend, high jump Olympic champion Iolanda Balas-Soter celebrates her 78th anniversary on Friday.

The only Romanian athlete who was two times Olympic champion celebrated her birthday while having an active life, namely president of the Romanian Athletics Foundation and honorary president of the Romanian Athletics Federation