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Kotor of many colours

27.07.11
Montenegro's Adriatic coast offers dramatic mountains, historic towns and more than a touch of Monte Carlo... more

Captured: last Balkan war fugitive

20.07.11
The last remaining fugitive wanted by the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal is arrested after eight years on the run... more

Orange winner's novel could heal the wounds of war-torn Serbia

09.06.11
Tea Obreht wins the Orange Prize for Fiction with a book that could heal the international image of her birth-country Serbia ... more

Mladic arrest 'met with relief' by victims, says survivor

06.06.11
A Bosnian woman who helps survivors of atrocities carried out by Ratko Mladic's forces in the former Yugoslavia has said his arrest was a 'symbol of justice'... more

Mladic snubs 'monstrous' charges at war crimes tribunal where he faces 11 charges over atrocities

03.06.11
Ratko Mladic has denounced the 'obnoxious' and 'monstrous' charges against him, in a dramatic show of defiance at the UN war crimes tribunal... more

Body of 'remarkable' soldier killed in bomb blast brought back to UK

26.05.11
The body of a Colour Sergeant Kevin Fortuna, killed by a bomb in Afghanistan, is to be flown home for his funeral service... more

A moment of hesitation - then Kate flashed her film-star smile

29.04.11
The pecking order was all in the arrival time. First the general guests were seated by ushers. Soon after a brace of Palmer Tomkinsons arrived on 7ins heels, chatting to Rowan Atkinson... more

'What on earth are you doing?': David Cameron warns Gaddafi over violence

24.02.11
David Cameron says the world must consider the 'full range of options' against Libya if violent repression continues... more

Secrets of the superheads: the teachers that are saving London's schools

31.01.11
One can boast 10 Oxbridge offers for his Hackney pupils, another has sent every child from her sixth form to university for the past three years. Meet the sink school saviours... more

Deposed royals are first wedding guests

26.01.11
The first guests to confirm their attendance at Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton are the members of three deposed royal families... more

Globe spreads the Word of God... all 788,280 of them read out over 5 days

06.12.10
Globe Theatre announces plans to read the Bible on stage in its entirety for the first time... more

No euro would not mean the end of the world

26.11.10
Europe's great strength is its diversity but it is the euro's great weakness... more

A pain in the art: Marina Abramovic

24.09.10
Marina Abramovic inspired David Blaine and Riccardo Tisci with her masochistic performance art. And now she's crossing the Pond. Watch out for knives, ice blocks, wounds and tears, says Hermione Eyre... more

Roksanda Ilincic: The Goth strips off

09.07.10
A dramatic Montenegran temperament and a taste for the Gothic have made Roksanda Ilincic the darling of eccentric beauties everywhere. But what will they think of her new swimwear collection?... more

Westminster Bridge jumper: Why I wanted to end my life

24.05.10
Exclusive: Last November 49-year-old Romanian John Untan leapt off Westminster Bridge as the world looked on. The story of his life and why he wanted to end it gives an extraordinary glimpse into the complex and often desperate world of London’s growing migrant population... more

£17m lost treasure trove of art finally goes under the hammer

22.04.10
More than £17 million of art that belonged to a dealer who championed Cézanne and Picasso is to be sold this summer after a 29-year battle over ownership... more

Dubrovnik: a vintage port

30.10.09
With its pristine coastline, medieval streets and burgeoning arts scene, no wonder Dubrovnik is a draw for Hollywood's finest.... more

Sporting Miscellanies

09.10.09
Political historians of tomorrow will have cause for gratitude to Channel 4’s When Boris Met Dave for revealing the key formative influence on the Tory leader... more

Daredevil adventures in Kosovo, Burma and the Arctic

09.10.09
A freezing night on the ice, an ambush in Kosovo and a terrifying encounter with the Burmese militia. Three adventurers recount their ultimate tales of derring-do... more

CDs of the week

04.09.09
Jamie T's new album is witty, gritty and well worth the wait and Charlie Wilson is, in many ways, a musical throwback.... more

Sorry, imagination is off at Twotwentytwo

25.06.09
Twotwentytwo is a place mostly inhabited by tourists and loud men in suits, which is a huge shame.... more

Anne Keothavong enjoys new feat on clay

21.05.09
Cricket: Anne Keothavong has become the first British woman for 26 years to reach the semi-finals of a WTA clay-court event as she swept past Ioana Raluca Olaru in Poland... more

Madoff’s man tried to sign up Prince Charles on polo field

06.02.09
Prince Charles was targeted by the world’s biggest swindler Bernard Madoff, it has emerged... more

Killers and Coldplay to star at War Child's 15th birthday show

28.01.09
The Killers and Coldplay are set to perform a one-off concert for the War Child charity next month... more

Police fail to stop fans from trading insults

21.01.09
Police have moved swiftly to head off another clash between Croat and Serb tennis fans at the Australian Open... more

Palin show censured over inaccurate facts of war in former Yugoslavia

04.08.08
A Michael Palin documentary on Eastern Europe has been censured by the BBC Trust. It said the former Monty Python star had been inaccurate and had oversimplified the war in the former Yugoslavia.... more

Hell is first great work of the 21st century

06.06.08
The Chapman Brothers have done it again – their new Hell is even better than the first, says Brian Sewell.... more

Gloomy lines from the underworld

07.09.07
Neither Venus as a Boy, set among male and formerly male prostitutes, nor Fragile, about the low-paid, mafia-run world of London's immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, quite hit the mark.... more

A worthy story, but lacks iron

31.08.07
I Miss Communism is a memoir of youth that badly needs an injection of documentary grit and some iron in its soul. As it stands, it comes dangerously close to harmless schmaltz.... more


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