An official with Slobodan Milosevic’s party said today that an arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife had been suspended, leading to a possible Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav president.

THE Serbian people were the main victims of Slobodan Milosevic, the country's Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic said, responding to the death of the man known as the "Butcher of the Balkans".

EIGHT secret policemen loyal to former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic were convicted yesterday of the murder of communist-era Serbian President Ivan Stambolic.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague released two top aides to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic today pending the start of their trials.

Serbia’s pro-Western President Boris Tadic survived an apparent assassination attempt when a car repeatedly tried to crash into his motorcade.

A PRO-WESTERN reformer won Serbia’s presidential run-off vote last night, defeating a hard-line nationalist ally of former autocrat Slobodan Milosevic, an independent election monitoring group said.

Serbians were voting for a new president today, with a nationalist, a pro-Western moderate and a business mogul leading a race that could determine whether the Balkan republic strengthens its Western ties or opts for renewed isolation.

THE SUSPECTED mastermind behind last year’s assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic has surrendered to local police.

THE trial of 13 suspects charged with the assassination of reformist Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic opened with the suspected mastermind still at large and conspiracy theories rife.

The trial of the suspected assassins of Serbia’s prime minister opened in Belgrade today, with the focus on an alleged plot by gangsters and police to bring allies of Slobodan Milosevic back to power.

Serbian presidential elections failed for the third time in a year today, triggering a major political crisis in the Balkan republic.

Serbian presidential elections were on the brink of collapse for the third time in a year as few voters turned out today to choose between a pro-democracy veteran and a strident nationalist.

Swedish premier Goeran Persson has said Sweden’s tradition of openness has been damaged by the killing of foreign minister Anna Lindh.

SERBIAN police have filed charges against former President Slobodan Milosevic and several of his allies for abducting and killing a former president nearly three years ago.

Serbian police have filed charges against former President Slobodan Milosevic and several of his allies for abducting and killing a former president nearly three years ago.

SERBIAN war crimes suspect Miroslav Radic, wanted for the killing of civilians and prisoners of war in Croatia in 1991, has handed himself over to authorities in Belgrade, the Beta news agency reported yesterday.

THE wife of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic is being hunted in connection with the murder of ex-Serbian president Ivan Stambolic.

Police today said they had uncovered the grave of a former Serbian president who had been missing for three years.

Serbian police tonight shot dead two men described as top suspects in assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic

THE availability of Birmingham’s Jeff Kenna to join the Irish squad for the upcoming European Championship matches was welcomed yesterday by assistant manager Chris Hughton.

Wales’ match with Serbia & Montenegro in Belgrade next week is likely to be postponed, it emerged today.

POLICE in Belgrade have arrested a man suspected of being the sniper who shot dead Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

POLICE hunting the killers of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic have detained more than 750 people in a sweep through the underworld, the reformist politician nominated new premier said yesterday.

Serbian authorities say they have arrested 750 people since the assassination of the country's prime minister last Wednesday.

POLICE hunting the assassins of the Serbian prime minister raided the home of a murdered warlord yesterday and arrested his widow, the Balkan republic’s most popular folk singer.

Serbia’s likely new prime minister pledged today to keep the country on the course of pro-democracy reforms and close ties with the West as charted by his slain predecessor Zoran Djindjic.

Tens of thousands gathered at the largest Orthodox Church in the Balkans today to mourn Serbia’s slain pro-Western prime minister, as a massive manhunt for his assassins continued.

POLICE yesterday arrested several members of an underworld network accused of assassinating Serbia's prime minister, a pro-Western leader who made enemies by pushing for the arrest of mobsters and war crimes suspects.

Police today arrested several members of a shadowy underworld network accused of assassinating Serbia’s prime minister.

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

Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has died after an apparent assassination attempt in Belgrade today.

Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has been seriously injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Belgrade today.

SERBIA was heading for a major political crisis yesterday after it failed for a second time to elect a president and the top contender, Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, said he would not recognise the outcome.

Serbia was heading for a major political crisis today after it failed for a second time to elect a president and the top contender, Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, said he would not recognise the outcome.

SERBIAN voters went to the polls yesterday to choose a new president from among 11 candidates, all of whom have promised to end the political and economic limbo left behind by Slobodan Milosevic.

The Yugoslav president says he has rejected the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic's top general, who is still in charge of the country's military.

Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan conflicts that produced Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two, is to appear before a United Nations judge on Tuesday to enter a plea on war crimes charges.

The UN war crimes court prosecutor says Slobodan Milosevic will be indicted for war crimes committed in 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia as well as against Kosovo Albanians.

Some 5,000 supporters of Slobodan Milosevic have protested in Yugoslavia at the criminal proceedings against the ousted leader.

The Yugoslavian Government has adopted a draft law enabling the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the UN war crimes court.

Slobodan Milosevic and his wife face the death penalty in Yugoslavia as they prepare to answer murder charges.