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.

ZORAN DJINDJIC, the 50-year-old Prime Minister of Serbia was assassinated yesterday in a sniper attack.

Nuclear fuel and waste still pose a hazard in Serbia, despite a secret anti-terrorist project financed by the US that moved most of the weapons grade fuel to Russia, experts said today.

George W Bush and Vladimir Putin have agreed to exchange visits to the United States and Moscow in their first face-to-face meeting.

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.