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The men's national team of Serbia fell short of winning the bronze at EuroBasket 2015 after being outplayed by France 81-68 (16-16, 21-16, 21-12, 23-24) Sunday.

Serbia's basketball players missed not only the chance to book their tickets for the Olympic Games 2016, but were also left short of the medal at this championship.

Spain is the European basketball champions for 2015 after convincingly beating (80-63) the surprise package of the tournament Lithuania in the final played at the Lille Pierre Mauroy stadium in France, Sunday. It is the 3rd trophy for the European giants, with NBA superstar and European legend Pau Gasol finishing the match with double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds.

European leaders and officials have congratulated Alexis Tsipras on his party’s election win. Sunday night. French President Francois Hollande, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz contacted Alexis Tsipras after the announcement of Sunday night’s results.

There have been at least 485 200 tourists arriving in Bulgaria's capital Sofia over the first six months of this year.

This is 5.7% up compared to 2014, official data shows.

Some 284 000 of them were non-Bulgarian citizens, while the rest came from the country, the Bulgarian News Agency reports, citing a state-owned tourism company.

Nearly 2,000 refugee activists in France marched to protest against the EU and UK’s policies of closed borders. Their protest march ended at the Calais Channel, where 10 refugees had lost their lives on June 10.

A senior EU official on Sept. 19 spelt out plans to encourage people fleeing war in Syria to stay in bordering countries rather than join the flow of migrants to Europe.
 
In a visit to a migrant reception centre on the Macedonian border, European Commissioner Johannes Hahn said the European Union faced several tasks.
 

'Cuisine and Confessions,' a project by Canadian troupe Seven Fingers of the Hand, come to Istanbul in December for six shows The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) will host "Les 7 Doigts de la Main" (Seven Fingers of the Hand) with their project "Cuisine and Confessions" in which the company takes acrobatics and dance into the kitchen. 

Developed market stocks fell on Sept. 18 and bonds rose, pushing yields sharply lower, after the U.S. Federal Reserve cited weakening global growth and the recent upsurge in financial market volatility as its reasons for not raising interest rates.

French President Francois Hollande said on Sept.17 that he will urge a special EU summit next week to help Turkey keep Syrian refugees on its soil until the neighbouring country's war ends.

Burkina Faso?s military said on Sept.16 it had stripped interim President Michel Kafando of his functions and dissolved the government, seizing power in a coup less than a month before elections meant to restore democracy in the West African country.