UN observers visited an embattled neighbourhood in the central Syrian city of Homs today.

UN authorities in Kosovo will today hand over to families the bodies of 29 Serb civilians killed during the 1998-99 conflict in the volatile province.

A United States officer was in serious condition today after a Jordanian policeman shot into a group of United Nations police officers in a prison compound in Kosovo, killing two American women before being fatally shot in the ensuing gun battle.

At least seven international police officers have been wounded in a shoot-out today near a prison in northern Kosovo, a UN spokesman and a Serb doctor said.