The Slovenian women's handball team opened their first ever Olympic tournament in Paris on Thursday with a loss, going down 19:27 (11:14) to Denmark in Group A.

Almost 2.6 million tourists visited Slovenia in the first six months of the year, which is up 4.5% compared to the same period last year. Almost 6.4 million tourist nights were recorded or 2.2% more than last year.

Milko Novič, a former employee of the National Chemistry Institute, is seeking more than EUR 1.5 million in damages from the state after he was fully acquitted in a murder trial but spent more than three years in prison, several newspapers reported on Thursday. He was tried for the 2014 murder of the institute's director Janko Jamnik.