Alen Muhic, who was conceived when his mother was raped by a soldier in wartime, says he would not have had the courage to search for his parents were it not for the film cameras that followed him.

As firefighters tried to contain two wildfires near an ammunition factory in southern Bosnia today, one of the blazes began setting off explosions in a minefield left over from the country’s war in the 1990s.

FREEZING temperatures and snowstorms killed 12 more people and caused travel chaos across northern Europe yesterday as some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans.

A state of emergency has been declared and residents evacuated after heavy rainfall caused floods in several areas of Bosnia.

ONCE bitten, twice as eager, an Irish doctor is heading for Iraq to prepare for the inevitable humanitarian crisis that will follow war.