Ex-Croatia Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has been arrested in Austria on an international warrant, a day after he left the country amid a corruption probe.

Exit polls tonight showed the opposition centre-left Social Democrats slightly ahead of the ruling conservatives in Croatian parliamentary elections, but neither party appeared to have won outright.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will today hold bilateral discussions with Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in Zagreb.

Croatian and British security experts were today following up leads after a mailroom bomb that injured a local employee at the British Embassy in the Croat capital Zagreb.