Barcelona forward Lionel Messi will miss six to eight weeks due to a hamstring injury he suffered in a 4-1 victory over Real Betis Sunday.

Next Autumn, NATO will be holding a major conference in Newport, Gwent. This organisation seems also to hold some peculiarly politically correct ideas.

Prijedor - Friday there are reports that an area in the village of Tomasica in north-western Bosnia is being excavated, revealing a mass grave dating back to the Bosnian war. It could be the largest such grave.

Rio De Janeiro - A notorious Brazilian crime syndicate issued threats, Tuesday, to disrupt next year’s soccer World Cup finals, hosted by Brazil, by launching terror-style attacks. It also threatened disruption of next year’s Brazilian presidential election.

Sarajevo - A Bosnian court on Sunday remanded Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina President Živko Budimir and four other officials in custody for a month. The suspected crime: taking bribes to arrange pardons for convicts.

The beloved member of the Mickey Mouse Club and film star passed away today peacefully in her sleep after a long battle with multiple sclerosis at the Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California.

Berlin - "Child's Pose," a Romanian film about a mother's determination to protect her irresponsible son from going to jail after he accidentally hits and kills a child while driving, won the Golden Bear for best picture at the Berlin Film Festival Saturday.

Madrid - Actress Penelope Cruz showed up to the "Venuto Al Mondo" (Twice Born) premiere in Spain earlier this month with four hardly noticeable needles in her left ear. They turned out to be tiny acupuncture needles.

Sarajevo - Croatian timelapse masters will be special guests at the “Fotografija godine BiH 2012″ exhibition in Sarajevo later this month.

Amsterdam - The trial of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, which was set to start June 25, has been "suspended until further notice" the UN War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said according to The AP.

The pair were arrested after a neighbour managed to take a picture of the now 19-year-old being forced to pull a cart while being whipped.

Mayenne - The French department of Mayenne, in north west France, was this week the test-bed in preparation for a unique and ambitious attempt by two brothers to travel 45000 kilometers circumnavigating the globe in a tuk-tuk.

Sarajevo - The Sarajevo Winter Olympics of 1984 started 28 years ago today, and the Bosnian ski slopes are once again very much open for business.

Sarajevo - Serbian police have arrested a further 17 individuals believed to have connections to the Islamic Wahhabi sect which spawned Mevlid Jasarevic. Jasarevic was arrested on Friday after opening fire at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.

Srebrenica - Today, July 11th, marks the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre where over 8,000 Bosniak men lost their lives in the biggest mass murder since the second World War.

The end of the Cold War spelled the termination of many an illustrious career in the military and the secret services - as well as the destabilization and disintegration of many states.

Europe's most wanted war criminal, Ratko Mladic, has been arrested in Serbia the President, Boris Tadic, announced today.

Former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has died of cancer, aged 85. He served as 63rd Secretary of State during Bill Clinton's first term as President.

Sarajevo - Academy-Award winning actor and world-renown philanthropist, Angelina Jolie, is set to make her directorial debut but her film has already caused controversy since production began. Bosnian rape victims are the latest to be upset over the film.

Brussels - Citizens of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina who possess biometric passports will be able to travel without a visa in the Schengen area from mid-December. The decision came today after a meeting of the Council of the European Union (EU).