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BELGRADE - The Serbian national ice hockey team was defeated by Estonia 5-2 (1-1, 2-0, 2-1) in Belgrade late Saturday in the third round of the Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group A.

This defeat has reduced the chances of the Serbian team to win a medal at the Championship, which is being held at Pionir Ice Hall April 9-15.

BELGRADE - The Serbian national ice hockey team beat Israel 10-6 (4-0, 2-3, 4-3) in Belgrade late Thursday in the second round of the Ice Hockey World Championship Division II Group A.

Serbia, the host nation of the tournament, will play Estonia on Saturday.

The most beautiful women in the world live in Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Russia, and Colombia, according to a recent survey.

Bulgarian women are among the leaders in the Targetmap.com rating divided into five categories according to female attractiveness with 15 out of 17 points. Central and Western Europeans as well as Americans have been voted less attractive.

BELGRADE - The 2014 Ice Hockey Division IIA World Championships, which will take place from April 9 to 15, kicked off in Belgrade on Wednesday evening.

In the first match, Serbia was outplayed by Belgium, which is one of the favorites at the tournament, 8-3 (3-0, 2-2, 3-1).

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said permanently stationing an additional U.S. Army brigade in Europe is among options to beef up security in the region. 

This is just one of the measures, as Russian troops remain massed along Ukraine’s eastern border.

Washington, Brussels and Chisinau are the cities where celebrations of Eastern Europe’s 10th Anniversary in NATO will take place.

The US is preparing military exercises in Poland, said US ambassador to Poland, Stephen Mull. 

According to Mull, they would included  Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Baltics.

Polish radio station Radio Zet, quoted by Reuters, said Mull told them that the exercise will take place in the Lask base in central Poland. 

Bulgaria is among the top 15 countries worldwide in terms of greatest manufacturing growth potential.

Bulgaria was ranked 7th in the 'High Growth Locations' category based on Costs, Risks and Conditions parameters, in a Manufacturing Index report by Cushman&Wakefield (C&W) commercial real estate services company.

Women's gross hourly earnings were on average 15 % below those of men in Bulgaria in 2012, according to Eurostat data.

The Euro area shows signs of recovery, recording a 0.3% growth in the gross domestic product in Q4 of 2013, according to data released by Eurostat Wednesday.

Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.5% in the Euro area.