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.

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.

Military intervention in Iraq would be “legitimate” even without the approval of the UN Security Council, a French MP said today.

Slobodan Milosevic’s wife has warned that the former Yugoslav president’s health is deteriorating rapidly under the strain of his war crimes trial.

A 72-year-old who claims to have drunk nothing but beer for 30 years has made sure there are bottles at his final resting place.