Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan conflicts that produced Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two, is to appear before a United Nations judge on Tuesday to enter a plea on war crimes charges.

Police have blocked off the roads around the seaside prison where Slobodan Milosevic will be housed for the duration of his trial for war crimes.

As Yugoslavia stepped up moves to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the former president’s defence lawyers manoeuvred for time today, filing a request that two Belgrade District Court judges and the prosecutor be dismissed from the case.

Slobodan Milosevic’s lawyers were promising to go to a high court today to challenge a government decree paving the way for Yugoslavia’s former president to be extradited to the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

Croatia's president has said he is prepared to testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the international war crimes tribunal.

A UN war crimes tribunal envoy handed Yugoslav authorities an arrest warrant for Slobodan Milosevic today and said the country’s justice minister promised to serve it on the jailed former president.

Slobodan Milosevic's daughter may be charged with attempted murder for firing her gun during the former Yugoslav president's arrest .

Police are seeking attempted murder charges against Slobodan Milosevic’s daughter who fired her gun during the former Yugoslav president’s arrest.

The UN war crimes tribunal has presented Yugoslav authorities with a warrant for the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic.

The UN war crimes tribunal is pressing ahead with its campaign to prosecute Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica has ruled out extraditing Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague anytime soon.

We are receiving reports that a Belgrade court has turned down an appeal to have Slobodan Milosevic released.

Slobodan Milosevic and his wife face the death penalty in Yugoslavia as they prepare to answer murder charges.

A defiant Slobodan Milosevic has denounced his arrest as "politically staged" in an appeal demanding his release in a statement written from his cell.

Investigations against Slobodan Milosevic have widened to include accusations that he incited his bodyguards to shoot at police trying to arrest him.

Slobodan Milosevic is to appeal against a decision to remand him in custody for 30 days.

As Slobodan Milosevic awoke today after his first night in jail it emerged that a vast cache of weapons was seized from the mansion he had transformed into a fortress.

A judge has ordered that Slobodan Milosevic should be held for 30 days in jail as part of an investigation into corruption charges.

Slobodan Milosevic's daughter is understood to have fired "four or five" shot inside the villa she was holed up with her father just before his arrest.

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has been arrested in Belgrade bringing an end to a 26-hour armed stand-off.

Slobodan Milosevic appeared at a gate to his villa in Belgrade today.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the "end game" is in sight for former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.

Police have pushed journalists several hundred yards away from Slobodan Milosevic's villa as they apparently prepare to make a second attempt to arrest the former Yugoslav leader.