Belgrade - Serbia has launched a probe into alleged atrocities against the former Yugoslav army in Bosnia and issued arrest warrants against 19 people, including former top Muslim and Croat leaders in Sarajevo, officials said Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Serbian war crimes prosecutor, Ivana Ramic, confirmed for radio B92 that an investigation was underway against people suspected of committing war crimes early in the 1992-95 conflict, but refused to provide details.

The suspects allegedly committed war crimes against prisoners and using banned means of combat.

Declining to provide more details, Ramic only named an ambush on an army column in Sarajevo which left 42 soldiers, mostly conscripts, dead and more than 70 wounded in May 1992.

Belgrade - The long awaited documentary "Maradona" by award winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica delighted the crowds at Belgrade's International Film Festival, in a country that mostly shares the anti-Western sentiments with the famous footballer.

The "hand of God" England versus Argentina match dominates the documentary, which premiered on Tuesday night in a packed Belgrade cinema, and serves as a platform to the "anti-imperialist" political views of both Maradona and Kusturica.

The viewers were mostly amused and entertained by the documentary, but some complained at the lack of more biographic data.

Belgrade - Serbian basketball star Vlade Divac was Tuesday named as the president of Serbia's Olympic committee, local media reported.

Divac was named president after his opponent, incumbent OC president Ivan Curkovic withdraw his candidacy.

Divac won several World and European titles with Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. He also won the European club championship with Partizan Belgrade and had an prominent career spanning longer than 15 years in the US national basketball association (NBA).

Belgrade - Serbian basketball star Vlade Divac was Tuesday named as the president of Serbia's Olympic committee, local media reported.

Divac was named president after his opponent, incumbent OC president Ivan Curkovic withdraw his candidacy.

Divac won several World and European titles with Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. He also won the European club championship with Partizan Belgrade and had an prominent career spanning longer than 15 years in the US national basketball association (NBA).

Belgrade - Serbian police were set Sunday to question reporters over the disclosure of a secret state plan to spend one million dollars to keep a fugitive from US justice authorities, Belgrade newspapers said Sunday.

Police said they were seeking the owner and chief editor of the daily Borba over a report that Serbia would pay to relieve pressure for the extradition of Miladin Kovacevic, charged last May over a near-fatal assault of a fellow student in the United States.

Belgrade - British actor Ralph Fiennes said Friday that he will most probably shoot his directorial debut, Shakespeare's Coriolanus, in Belgrade next spring - if he can find the financing.

Fiennes, set to open 37th Belgrade International Film Festival on Friday night, told journalists that the Serbian capital, with its combination of 19th century and communist architecture and new buildings, would be an ideal location for Coriolanus.