Czech Republic

Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic has defeated Bulgarian star tennis player Grigor Dimitrov in the final of the Stockholm Open.
Berdych won the Stockholm Open title by winning to Dimitrov in a match of 7:5, 4:6, 4:6 which lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Dimitrov loses 100 points in the ATP ranking due to the loss.

The Romanian Prime Minister's economy advisor Cristian Socol told AGERPRES on Sunday that the last Worldwide Governance Indicators report drawn up by the World Bank experts show Romania had the highest increase in the quality of governance in the last 20 years in 2013.

CADIZ - The Serbian under-21 men's soccer team has qualified for the European Championship by beating hosts Spain 2-1 in the away leg of the play-off tie in Cadiz on Tuesday.

The first leg of the tie, played in Jagodina last Friday, ended in a goalless draw.

Roberto found the net for Spain at the Ramon de Carranza stadium, while Kostic and Saul (o.g.) scored for Serbia.

Bulgaria's women's national volleyball team climbed 14 places and now occupies the 21th position in the FIVB rankings after the World Cup in Italy.

The Bulgarian team came 11th in the final world rankings after winning four matches and losing five, which increased their score to 52 points.

The pair made up of Romanian tennis player Raluca Olaru and Georgian-born American player Anna Tatishvili won the doubles event of the 250,000-dollar WTA tournament in Linz, Austria, after defeating on Sunday the duo Annika Beck (Germany) / Caroline Garcia (France) 6-2, 6-1.

Olaru and Tatishvili will receive 9,919 euros and 280 WTA points for their performance.

The Health Ministry's general secretary Christina Papanikolaou said on Friday that Greek authorities were braced to deal with a potential Ebola infection in Greece in the wake of several cases being reported in Spain, the Former Yuguslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic.

Turkey plays the Czech Republic, hoping for a victory despite its injured players to keep its hopes high for qualifying for Euro 2016. Also in the group, the Netherlands takes on Kazakhstan at home and Iceland travels to Latvia

BELGRADE - OTEH 2014, an international scientific and technical conference dedicated to the development of defense technologies, opened in Belgrade on Thursday, and Serbia's Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said that investment in the defense industry and armed forces is Serbia's strategic interest.

PRAGUE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic met in Prague on Wednesday with Jan Hamacek, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech parliament, who offered full support to Serbia on its European path.

BELGRADE- Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will meet with senior officials of the Czech government and parliament in Prague on Wednesday.

Gojkovic will meet with Czech President Milos Zeman and Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Jan Hamacek Republic, the Serbian parliament said in a release on Wednesday.