Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has been admitted to hospital in the Netherlands with suspected pneumonia.

The former chief of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years for aiding Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes court, has been arrested by Serbian authorities.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has told a United Nations war crimes court he is “a gravely ill man” and refused to enter pleas to “obnoxious charges” alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Ratko Mladic has described charges against him as "obnoxious".

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic told a United Nations war crimes court today that he is “a gravely ill man”.

Ratko Mladic will not enter a plea at the UN war crimes tribunal today, after charges, including one of genocide, were read out to him.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen Ratko Mladic has entered a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal courtroom to hear the charges on 11 counts that accuse him with orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian war have gathered outside a courtroom in The Hague for the start of UN criminal proceedings against Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Ratko Mladic is due to appear at the UN war crimes tribunal this morning after 16 years on the run.

Ratko Mladic’s lawyer says he has a document proving the war crimes suspect has been battling cancer and that he was treated at a Serbian hospital in 2009.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has been assigned a Serbian lawyer to represent him when he appears before United Nations judges for the first time to face 11 war crimes charges.

Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has arrived in Holland to stand trial for war crimes in the Hague.

The Serbian justice minister has confirmed Ratko Mladic is on plane on his way to The Hague.

The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says the former general is so ill he will not live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges.

Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside the parliament building to demand his release.

Ratko Mladic claims he had nothing to do with the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it fell during the 1992-1995 war, his son said today.

People against the extradition of Ratko Mladic to the Hague are expected to hold a protest later in Belgrade.

Security has been tightened throughout Serbia ahead of the protest planned by ultra-nationalists over the arrest of Ratko Mladic, police said today.

Ratko Mladic could be on his way to face a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague as early as Monday, possibly joining his former ally Radovan Karadzic on trial for some of the worst horrors of the Balkan wars.

Ratko Mladic was captured in a routine raid as he headed out to his garden for a pre-dawn walk, three Serbian police officials said.

A defence lawyer for Ratko Mladic says a Belgrade court has ruled that the former general can be extradited to a UN tribunal.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is fully equipped to deal with any health issues suffered by genocide suspect Ratko Mladic when he is extradited to stand trial in The Hague, a spokeswoman said.

Doctors are due to say later whether they think war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is fit to appear in court.

After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge in the first step towards charges for international war crimes, including the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

The British former commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia today told Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes trial how the Serb brought terror and suffering to Muslim enclaves.

The former head of Nelson Mandela’s children’s charity is being tried on charges of possessing uncut diamonds that featured in a recent war crimes trial.

Former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj faces a retrial for war crimes.

Two Bosnian Serb army officers were jailed for life today for genocide at the UN-declared safe zone of Srebrenica in 1995.

A Bosnian Muslim has given the first witness statement to Radovan Karadzic's war crimes trial.

The UN Yugoslavia tribunal today rejected an appeal by war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic to rid himself of a court-appointed lawyer.

Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague have pushed back by two days the planned start of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s trial.

The early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic - after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution – has been approved by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

A UN-backed court today convicted three former members of a Sierra Leone junta for war crimes in the country's brutal, decade-long civil war.

A wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs was today convicted of murder, torture and persecution by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.

Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have appealed against the 27-year sentence imposed on a former senior Bosnian Serb political leader, calling it “manifestly inadequate” and urging judges to imprison him for life.

Serbia has stepped up efforts to capture war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic by putting into effect a secret government plan to arrest him, the interior minister said today.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was expected to make his first appearance in a Hague court room in the Netherlands today for a hearing aimed at paving the way for his war crimes trial.

The death of Slobodan Milosevic abruptly and inconclusively ended his trial for war crimes in Kosovo, but he remained a predominant figure in the trial of six Serb politicians and generals that opened in The Netherlands today.

Both police and the military are intensively searching for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, Serbia’s minister in charge of cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus resigned today over the government’s failure to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic and the resulting suspension of EU pre-membership talks with Serbia.

Serbia’s deputy prime minister Miroljub Labus resigned today over the government’s failure to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic and the resulting suspension of EU pre-membership talks with Serbia.

The European Union today suspended talks with Serbia on establishing closer ties, because Belgrade has failed to deliver fugitive General Ratko Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal.

Milan Babic, the Serb leader of a rebel republic in Croatia and one of the key figures in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has committed suicide in a Netherlands prison, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.