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Serbia, Bosnia struggle under record cold snap

Overwhelmed by record snow and harsh temperatures, Serbia and Bosnia closed down schools and struggled to continue public transport and garbage pick-up Monday, as authorities focused on trying to help thousands trapped in the region's remote mountain villages.

Tomislav Mercep, a Croatian former assistant interior minister, is to stand trial for war crimes on February 10 at Zagreb County Court, the court announced.

The biggest snowfall in the Balkans in the past three decades has claimed lives and cut off villagers across the region.

We also highlight that Croatia's economy remains highly reliant on the external environment, and a deeper deterioration of this would put our forecasts in jeopardy.

Church of the Holy Cross , also known as "the smallest cathedral in the world", is a Croatian Pre-Romanesque Catholic church originating from the 9th century in Nin.

Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow.

A truck clears snow in Burgos, Ukraine. More than 120 people died in the country owing to the poor weather conditions.

A man with his child slides down a slope at a snow covered park as cold weather affect much of Britain, in Croydon, south London, Sunday, Feb.

Two girls from the Philippines take a self-timer photo in front of a snow surrounded ancient Colosseum, in Rome Saturday, Feb.

Heavy snowfall has stranded presidents of Serbia and Croatia at a mountain resort outside of Sarajevo, according to reports reaching here on Saturday.

Eastern Europe's unrelenting and deadly cold snap produced another heavy snowfall in the Balkans on Saturday, trapping people in their homes and cars, causing power outages, and closing airports, railway stations and bus services.

More than a meter of snow fell on the capital, Sarajevo, trapping most people in their homes.

The Port of Rijeka is set to hold the top position in Croatias maritime sector in terms of both total tonnage and container throughput in 2012, after an estimated return to positive growth in total throughput and another year of expansion in box volumes in 2011.

YOUR Gainsborough Standard has teamed up with scheduled leisure airline Monarch to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of flights on one of their new routes to Italy, Croatia or Greece.

A former soldier who dedicated himself to helping victims of war is working to make the Olympic dreams of disabled Bosnian athletes come true.

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