Belgrade - Serbia was hailed as a "superpower" in women's tennis by the national media on Monday after a Fed Cup win over Spain propelled the small Balkan country to the World Group. The Serbian team, which includes two former WTA top players Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic, beat Spain 4-0 in Lleida over the weekend.

"Serbians join the elite" "Jelena and Ana in high society" and "Serbia a world power" were some of the headlines dominating the sports pages in the local press.

Belgrade - Red Star Belgrade, Serbia's best known football team which has sunk into total disarray, suffered another blow when its president Dobrivoje Tanasijevic resigned, local media reported Saturday. A 75-year-old Tanasijevic quit on Friday after failing to get the club out of financial crisis. The club reportedly owns around 30 million dollars to its creditors.

"Red Star needs a new president and I wish him all the luck. I'll still be, as a fan, with the club that will remain in my thoughts," Tanasijevic was quoted as saying.

The club sank into chaos last month with some players unpaid for months and some of them facing eviction from their homes. The club also had its water supply and telephone lines cut off for days over unpaid bills.

Belgrade  - Families and colleagues on Thursday marked the tenth anniversary of the NATO bombing of the Serbian state television (RTS) building when 16 employees have been killed.

A service was held at a memorial site near the RTS building in downtown Belgrade. The families, friends and colleagues, including RTS director Aleksandar Tijanic lit candles and placed flowers.

Belgrade - A Belgrade war crimes court on Thursday sentenced four Serbian ex-policemen to prison for the murder of Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999, but acquitted the man charged with ordering the murder.

Seven Serbian police officers were tried for the murders of 48 members of the Berisha family on March 26, 1999 in Suva Reka, Kosovo. The trial began in October 2006.

Belgrade  - A day before the International Roma day, some 40 Roma aimed to spend another night outside Belgrade's city hall in an ongoing drama after their "unhygienic neighborhood" was torn down.

Roma families living in cardboard slums in the posh New Belgrade district were evicted from their houses last weekend and their homes - located in front of the new buildings built for the participants of the upcoming International Student Games - were torn down.

Belgrade  - The Serbian government on Thursday said it has paid 900,000 dollars in compensation to the family of a US student who was beaten by a Serb basketball player in the United States last year.

Serbian state secretary Slobodan Homen confirmed the payment to the family of Bryan Steinhauer. Up until now, the government had labeled the case against Miladin Kovacevic, the alleged assailant, as a "state secret," keeping all information tightly sealed.