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Germany kicked off its World Cup 214 campaign in striking fashion, beating Portugal 4:0 in their Group F match in Salvador, Brazil.

Thomas Muller opened the scoring in the 12th minute, converting a penalty kick for a foul against Mario Gotze. A header by Hummels in the 32nd minute made it 2:0 for Germany.

BELGRADE - Sremska Mitrovica will host Serbia's first firework display festival on June 20-22, and the event will feature pyromusical fireworks, to be performed for the first time ever in the country by teams from Serbia, Slovakia and Italy, the organisers said at a press conference.

MARIBOR - Damir Mikec, member of Serbia's national shooting team, claimed gold in the men's 50 m pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Maribor on Monday.

Mikec won the gold medal with a score of 194.0 points, while silver went to Jitu Rai of India with 193.9.

The third ranked Tomoyuki Matsuda of Japan scored 172.9 points.

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PIROT - Mt Stara planina in southern Serbia was last weekend the site of Serbia's mountain marathon - mountain running and mountain bike races featuring over 120 competitors from six countries on the region's most demanding racecourses.

NIS – The Serbia women’s national handball team has secured its ticket to the 2014 European Women's Handball Championship, after defeating Slovenia 32-25 (18-15) in Group 5 final qualifier, played in Nis, southern Serbia, late on Sunday.

The team led by coach Sasa Boskovic finished as runner-up in the group behind first-placed Sweden and ahead of Switzerland and Slovenia.

On Sunday, Grigor Dimitrov won his first ATP title on grass courts, and his fourth one in total.

In a marathon final, the Bulgarian defeated Feliciano Lopez 6:7, 7:6, 7:6 at the Aegon Championships in Queen’s Club, London.

After the match, Dimitrov shared his emotions in front of the press.

Lionel Messi scored a trademark individual goal as Argentina opened their World Cup campaign with a narrow 2-1 win over Bosnia-Hercegovina at Rio de Janeiro's renovated Maracana on June 16.

The Barcelona superstar created the third-minute own goal by Sead Kolasinac with which Argentina went ahead, but it took a mid-match tactical shift for him to really start influencing proceedings.

Remittances again registered an increase in 2013, with Romanians sending home 4.2 billion euro last year, according to data from the National Bank.

The rise is believed to signify that many Romanian emigrants to countries like Italy and Germany have again started to find stable employment after the worst of the financial crisis.

The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 104-87 on June 15 to capture their fifth NBA championship and deny the Heat a third straight title.

Fueled by the disappointment of a seven-game loss to the Heat in last year's finals, the top-seeded Spurs throttled the two-time defending champions in the final three games to take the best-of-seven title series four games to one.

Romania ended second among the participating countries at the sixth edition of World Union of Karate-do Federations (WUKF), with 99 medals (41 gold, 23 silver, 20 bronze, and 15 for fourth places).