The coffin holding Slobodan Milosevic’s body will be displayed today at a museum that used to exhibit gifts received by the late Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito – yet another unusual twist in the tumultuous aftermath of his death.

The body of Slobodan Milosevic has been flown home to Serbia for burial, met on the tarmac by only a handful of party loyalists. The low-key arrival, after days of wrangling over his final resting place, was an unceremonious homecoming for a man once feared – and respected – by millions.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body may be put on public display ahead of a funeral later this week, a top ally of the late Serb leader said today, and a family confidante said he could be buried in his hometown.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will consider declassifying documents in Slobodan Milosevic’s case so they can be released to Dutch authorities investigating the former Yugoslav president’s death.

The lower house of the Russian parliament today harshly criticised the UN War Crimes Tribunal, blaming it for Slobodan Milosevic’s death and calling for its quick closure.

Slobodan Milosevic’s remains will be flown home today for a funeral in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, later in the week, a family lawyer said.

Slobodan Milosevic’s son, insisting the former Yugoslav president had been murdered, went to a Dutch forensic institute today to claim father’s body.

A UN war crimes tribunal official said today that the court was informed on several occasions that Slobodan Milosevic had regular access to unprescribed medication and alcohol smuggled into his prison cell in The Hague.

A Belgrade court has suspended an arrest warrant for Slobodan Milosevic’s widow, but also ordered her passport to be seized, leaving in doubt a Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav president.

An official with Slobodan Milosevic’s party said today that an arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife had been suspended, leading to a possible Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav president.

An official with Slobodan Milosevic’s party said today that an arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife has been suspended by a court in Serbia.

Slobodan Milosevic’s son Marko arrived in the Netherlands today to claim the body of the former Yugoslav president.

Slobodan Milosevic’s son Marko arrived in the Netherlands today to claim the remains of the late Serb leader.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague today announced the formal end of the case against Slobodan Milosevic following the Serb leader’s death last weekend.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague today announced the formal end of the case against Slobodan Milosevic following the Serb leader’s death last weekend, and expressed regret that a verdict in the landmark trial was now impossible.

The judges who were trying Slobodan Milosevic convened in The Hague today to pronounce the end of Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial.

Slobodan Milosevic took unprescribed antibiotics that may have worsened his health, a Dutch toxicologist has said, as plans for the former Yugoslav leader’s funeral remained in disarray, conspiracy theories swirled, and his son headed from Russian exile to the Netherlands to retrieve the body of his father.

The Dutch Embassy in Moscow today granted a three-day visa to Slobodan Milosevic’s son, Marko, so he can travel to the The Hague to claim his father’s remains, the Netherlands said.

Serbian President Boris Tadic today said the UN war crimes tribunal is responsible for Slobodan Milosevic’s death, but added that it would not hamper Serbia’s future cooperation with the court.

A Dutch toxicologist today confirmed he found traces of an non-prescribed drug in a blood sample taken from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic earlier this year.

The widow of Slobodan Milosevic told a Belgrade newspaper she preferred to bring back her late husband’s body to the couple’s hometown of Pozarevac for burial, but that authorities in Belgrade would have to waive a standing arrest warrant for her first.

Slobodan Milosevic’s Socialist party threatened to topple Serbia’s minority government if the former Yugoslav president was not buried with state honors in Belgrade and if his widow was not allowed to attend the funeral.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body was being released to his family today after an eight-hour autopsy revealed that the former Yugoslav president died of a heart attack in his prison cell.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

Dutch pathologists conducted a post mortem examination and toxicological tests today to determine what killed Slobodan Milosevic amid claims that the ex-Yugoslav leader feared he was being poisoned.

For Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians, Slobodan Milosevic came to personify the brutality and destruction that befell them in the 1990’s, during his campaign to rid the province of separatists.

Slobodan Milosevic’s family clashed today over where the former Yugoslav president should be buried, with proposals ranging from Serbia or Montenegro to Russia.

Slobodan Milosevic wrote a six-page letter the day before he was found dead, claiming that traces of a “heavy drug” had been found in his blood and that he feared being poisoned, a legal aide to the former Yugoslav president said today.

Dutch pathologists were conducting a post mortem examination today on Slobodan Milosevic’s remains to find out what killed the former Yugoslav leader, found dead in his jail cell a day earlier.

Slobodan Milosevic’s death just before the end of his trial deprived victims of justice – and made the capture of war crimes fugitives Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic even more urgent, the chief UN prosecutor said today.

Borislav Milosevic, the older brother of late ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, said today that the family does not trust the UN tribunal to conduct his autopsy impartially.

In the name of unity, Slobodan Milosevic dragged the Balkans into a period of horrendous bloodshed.

The death of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic does not absolve Serbia of responsibility to hand over war crimes suspects from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the European Union said today.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president indicted for war crimes for orchestrating the Balkan wars of the 1990s, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the UN tribunal said today.