Rijeka, Croatia News

RIJEKA, Croatia, July 6. THE final night of swimming at the Croatian Championships featured a few more national records being rewritten.

RIJEKA, Croatia, July 5. THREE more Croatian records fell at the Croatian Championships held in Rijeka.

I'm heading with Aurgasm friend, Adam , to Europe for three weeks in July. Right after we land, we're hitting up the Dour Festival in Belgium.

Sharbani has impressed Villa scouts over the last year and Villa boss Martin O'Neill is seriously considering making an offer for the midfielder, according to Croatian sources.

Tito's luxury yacht heads for an overhaul after being sold to a city in Croatia.

A high school professor has been suspended after knocking a pupil unconscious for laughing at him.

NK Dinamo Zagreb remain the dominant force in Croatia but they had to rely on arch-rivals HNK Hajduk Split stumbling before completing their third straight domestic double.

Legal systems of Norway, Sweden and Denmark face challenge over residents from former Yugoslavia suspected of having committed crimes back "home" in the 1990s.

ZAGREB, Croatia-- Students at the University of Zagreb's philosophy faculty decided Sunday to end their five-week protest against plans to charge tuition fees.

The 22nd International Tehran Book Fair "special country" award goes to Turkey. Also in cultural news: Athens' new Acropolis Museum will be officially introduced, and the International Circus Art Festival opens in Bucharest.

Serbian and Croatian Interior Ministers Ivica Daeiae and Tomislav Karamarko yesterday signed an agreement on police cooperation in Rijeka.

Results showed a lack of outright victories in the first round, particularly in most major cities.

The senior ruling Croatian Democratic Union and its coalition partners managed to win the most votes in 14 counties in Sunday's local elections.

Held under new regulations complete with some unusual candidates, the local elections promise to be anything but boring.

As I awoke on Saturday morning, one of the last things I would've expected greeted my bleary eyes.

Protests by students in the Croatian capital Zagreb demanding free education spread Thursday to the entire country, local media reported.

Netherlands-based salvage specialists Multraship Salvage and Mammoet Salvage have successfully completed the removal of the wreck of a floating dock which sank in June 2007 at the Viktor Lenac shipyard, Rijeka, Croatia.

IPTV News reports that Iskon, a subsidiary of Croatian incumbent telco T-Hrvatski Telekom , has launched an IPTV service called Iskon.TV, initially available in nine cities: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Pula, Osijek, Velika Gorica, Samobor, Opatija and Solin.

The Croatian authorities have announced plans to roll out nationwide a pilot project to introduce better protection and support for victims and witnesses of crime.

Judging by the spate of events, meetings, conferences and visits over the past week, Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko is quickly settling into the hectic schedule of Bosniaa s new High Representative and EU Special Representative.