A cold spell and snowstorms have swept across parts of central and eastern Europe, disrupting power supplies, travel and schools. Four people have died in Bulgaria over the past few days.

A Croatian hospital has framed a collection of objects found in patients' bodies over the last 80 years.

Serbia’s deputy prime minister was in military custody tonight, accused of passing secret documents to a US diplomat that could implicate former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial.