Zagreb - Despite soaring fuel prices, Croats still prefer petrol-driven cars to the more economical diesel models, according to a survey released Friday.

More than two-thirds of all new cars registered this year run on petrol, and just 32 per cent used diesel, a survey by the Promiocija Plus agency said.

The General Motors' brand Opel retained the number one slot in

Croatia, with a 14-per-cent share among the 63,400 new cars sold so far in 2008.

Renault followed with 9.65 per cent and Volkswagen with 8.81 per cent.

Zagreb - Dinko Sakic, a former commander of Croatia's most notorious Nazi-era concentration camp during World War II, has died at age 86, news reports said Monday.

Sakic was in charge during May-October 1944 at the Jasenovac camp, where tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews and others died under the Ustasha regime, Croatia's
1941-45 Nazi puppet government.

He died late Sunday at a prison hospital in Zagreb, the capital, local media reported.

Zagreb  - Two people died and seven were injured when a Serbian bus caught fire on a Croatian highway, local media reported on Wednesday.

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Zagreb  - Croatian journalists Friday protested the beating of a colleague and urged authorities to find his attackers.

Zagreb - Of the many businesses set