The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague has convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb Army commander of genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Albania and Kosovo have called for an independent investigation into former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Carla del Ponte for her “tendentious and illegal role” in the case against former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj.

Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is opening his defence case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on the same day that the UN court starts its final trial in another courtroom.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

A DEFIANT Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal arraignment into chaos, repeatedly shouting at judges, defying their orders and refusing to enter pleas to 11 charges before the presiding judge threw him out of the hearing.

A defiant Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal into chaos today with the judge throwing him out of court for refusing to behave.

A FORMER Rwandan women’s empowerment minister has become the first woman to be found guilty of genocide and incitement to rape by an international tribunal.

Ratko Mladic has described charges against him as "obnoxious".

A JUDGE ruled yesterday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.

Ratko Mladic, the ruthless Bosnian Serb military leader charged with orchestrating Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War, was arrested at a relative’s home in a tiny Serbian village today after a 16-year hunt.

A UN court has convicted a key wartime Croatian commander, General Ante Gotovina, of committing atrocities in a campaign of shelling, murder and persecution.

IN his final words before emergency heart surgery, Richard Holbrooke, the influential US diplomat who died on Monday following complications, urged an end to America’s nine-year old Afghanistan conflict.

The family of Europe’s most wanted fugitive Ratko Mladic today asked a Serbian court to declare him officially dead.

Serbian MPs narrowly approved a declaration condemning the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, in a bid to distance the country from the past warmongering under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Masked policemen were searching the Belgrade house of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic today in a sign of government resolve to hunt down war crimes fugitives as Serbia seeks EU membership.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to appear in the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's court today for the first time since his trial began on charges of ordering atrocities throughout the Bosnian war.

POLICE in Uganda have arrested one of the most wanted suspects from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, police confirmed yesterday.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced today it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today refused to enter pleas to new genocide charges and nine other counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

A UN court has sentenced the organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed more than 500,000 lives to life in prison.

A NEW indictment compiled against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, pictured right, who is charged with war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, will be filed by Monday, prosecutors told a UN court yesterday.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claims he is the victim of a media witch hunt that will prevent him from getting a fair trial.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will reappear before the UN war crimes tribunal later this month after his first skirmishes with the Netherlands-based court yesterday.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will face a judge today for the first time over his string of monstrous war crimes.

A UN appeals court has overturned the war crimes conviction of Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim considered a war hero by many in his country for fighting Serbs in the embattled Srebrenica enclave during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Australia is considering launching a case in the International Court of Justice against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for inciting violence against Israel, prime minister Kevin Rudd said today.

UN police yesterday began returning to the Serb-held town in northern Kosovo where protesters with guns and hand grenades killed one of their colleagues and wounded dozens more.

NATO troops came under fire during Serb riots in the northern Kosovo flashpoint of Mitrovica yesterday, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.

Rioting Serbs clashed with UN and Nato forces in northern Kosovo today in the largest confrontation since the country declared independence.

Hundreds of Serbs took over a United Nations court in northern Kosovo today in protest over the country's declaration of independence.

Hundreds of Serbs took over a United Nations court in northern Kosovo today in protest over the country’s declaration of independence.

A wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs was today convicted of murder, torture and persecution by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.

Serbia hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

The United Nations’ highest court yesterday exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in Bosnia in the early 1990s, but ruled that it failed to prevent the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

Serbia today hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

The Serbian president today hailed the World Court’s acquittal of Serbia on genocide charges, but warned of “dramatic consequences” if the court’s demand for the arrest of indicted war criminals is not carried out.

The United Nations’ highest court today exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for, or complicity in, genocide during the 1992/95 Bosnia war, but did rule that Serbia failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

A witness at the trial of alleged helpers of top UN war crimes suspect, Ratko Mladic, testified today that Serbia’s top leaders were aware of the fugitive general’s whereabouts until mid 2002.

Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have appealed against the 27-year sentence imposed on a former senior Bosnian Serb political leader, calling it “manifestly inadequate” and urging judges to imprison him for life.

European Union foreign ministers were to press Serbia today to live up to international demands it hunt down and hand over top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal.

Serbia’s president today called for the punishment of all responsible for the Srebrenica massacre – the worst carnage in Europe since the Second World War.