Šumadija and Western Serbia

KRALJEVO - Part of the embankment on the River Ribnica near Kraljevo, built to provide permanent flood protection to homes along the riverbanks, has been washed away by a swollen river because local firm Zapadna Morava had done a poor constructing job.

BELGRADE - Radnicki Kragujevac beat Brescia 13-10 (2-0, 2-2, 4-4, 5-4) in a 2014-15 Water Polo Champions League preliminary round Day 7 match.

The Serbian team took its third victory in Group A and remained in the race for the final stage of the tournament.

CACAK - A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic has said in Cacak, expressing concern that new ones may appear once the snow melts.

Serbia has 36,000 landslide sites - minister

CACAK -- A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic said on Thursday in Cacak, central Serbia.

He added he was worried that "new ones may appear once the snow melts."

All access roads to villages in the Sjenica region in south-west Serbia were impassable on Friday after heavy snowfall, leaving about 10,000 people snowed in.

In the nearby Zlatibor county, about 30,000 people were left without electricity because the supply from about 500 electrical stations was disrupted by the snow.

Rain and snow cause flooding, damage power lines

BELGRADE -- The area around the town of Sabac was most at danger from flooding during the night, MUP Emergency Situations Sector chief Predrag Maric has said.

He also told the public broadcaster RTS that 27 persons had to be evacuated from their homes in Koceljeva, also in western Serbia.

BELGRADE - This spring will see the start of the construction of the first gondola with closed cabins for panoramic sightseeing in Serbia, which will link central Zlatibor with ski center Tornik, said Arsen Djuric, director of the Zlatibor Tourist Organization.

BELGRADE - A memorial plate to Dr Elizabeth Ross and other women of a British mission who aided typhus-stricken Serbian soldiers and then lost their lives to the disease themselves during the First World War in Serbia 100 years ago, was unveiled in the center of the city of Kragujevac in central Serbia on Friday.

BELGRADE - Contracts were signed in Belgrade on Tuesday for construction of 14 flash flood defense units and clearance of river beds in western Serbia, in which USD 1.5 million will be invested.

New Year welcomed in across Serbia

BELGRADE -- Very cold weather has not prevented many Serbians from ringing in the New Year outdoors across the country.

Thousands of Belgraders and tourists who arrived to the Serbian capital for the holidays spend the final moments of 2014 and welcomed in 2015 attending concerts organized in three city squares.