Serbia bowed to intense European and US pressure today by dropping a challenge to Kosovo’s independence at the United Nations, clearing the way for settlement talks between Belgrade and the Kosovo Albanian leadership. President Boris Tadic of...

The opening witness in the genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic was harangued for two hours by the former Bosnian Serb leader yesterday after saying that he saw Serb forces cut the throats of Muslim prisoners forced to dig their own graves. Dr Karadzic...