Tasmania

Four beaches on Australia's east coast were closed July 26 after numerous shark sightings, police said, as authorities patrolled waters off a southern island following a fatal attack on a diver a day earlier.

Bulgarian Nikolay Dimitrov has won a mural art competition in Sheffield, Tasmania's "Town of Murals."

Dimitrov won the ,000 prize at the 2015 edition of the annual Mural Fest with his work "Traveling Dreams", according to reports of local newspaper The Advocate and Bulgaria's Capital Daily.

Greek-Australian composer Constantine Koukias will present his new chamber opera "Kimisis" at Verge Gallery in Sydney from March 25-28.

A hit at Tasmania's MONA FOMA Festival in 2010, Kimisis is a gallery-style installation work written and directed by Koukias, a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam.

Belgrade among 10 "must-see" destinations

DUBLIN -- Belgrade is one of the ten holiday spots to visit in 2015 recommended by the Irish Times, Tanjug has reported.

"Belgrade has reaffirmed itself as the major Balkan metropolis," Irish Times Travel reporter Fionn Davenport writes.

He noted the city's "Kalemegdan Citadel and its beauty that spreads outward."

DUBLIN - Belgrade is one of the 10 holiday spots to visit in 2015, as recommended by The Irish Times.

"Belgrade has reaffirmed itself as the major Balkan metropolis," Irish Times Travel writer Fionn Davenport says, noting specifically the city's Kalemegdan Citadel and its beauty that "spreads outward". More than anything the 'White City' is a place to experience, he says.