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Serbia ranks low lately among those pondering a trip to the Balkans, given recent troubles, but will reward the intrepid willing to explore its lively capital, Belgrade.

The college basketball NCAA Tournament has turned into a global event. And that can be seen by the fact that the 64 teams have 79 players from 36 foreign countries.

Well equipped and fairly modern by eastern european standards, the Army of the Dual Monarchy suffered one of the worst morale problems imaginable.

While a Serbian first division side is fined and banned from their home stadium due to their racist support, fans get a taste of their own medicine in England.

The Euroleague Regular Season starts on October 15 as Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv face off with Union Olimpija Ljubljana. The rest of the first round starts on October 21.

Real Madrid have recorded a record thirtieth Primera Liga title success, to add to their record setting achievements in the European Cup and Champions league competition.

In 1911 a group of men formed a secret terror society officially styled Union or Death but commonly called the Black Hand.

Thirty teams start the 2009-10 Euroleague season with dreams of succeeding 2009 champs Panathinaikos as European basketball's top club. Here a breakdown of the event.

Unics Kazan and Gran Canaria both took big steps to reaching the Eurocup regular season after big wins in their second qualifying round first legs.

White lions are extinct in the wild, and only a small number exist on a South African Nature Reserve and various zoos around the world.

Underequipped, outnumbered, and fighting with its back to the mountains the Serbian National Army never shrank from its duties in World War One.

Beth Tweddle is among the ten gymnasts selected to represent Great Britain at the 25th World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia this July.

Four teams are still perfect at 3-0 after five Euroleague clubs won on the road and six contests were decided by five points or less.

Peter was only a child when he succeeded his assassinated father but he was called upon to stand up to the tide of Nazism in hopes of saving his country.

Almost a decade after the 1999 conflict between ethnic Albanian guerillas and Serbian forces; Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008.

Lili Marlene is a song based on a German poem of 1915 and turned to music in 1938. It became the favorite of troops of every nation during the Second World War.

How can the independence of Kosovo help explain this war in the small breakaway province of South Ossetia?

One of the most famous trains in the world, the Orient Express has become renowned as one of the world's great passenger trains.

Kara Mustafa was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1676 to 1683, and the architect behind the 1683 siege of Vienna.

Fabio Capello took charge of England for the first time and oversaw a victory against Switzerland at Wembley.Jenas and Wright-Phillips scored the goals to secure the win.

The Oklahoma City Thunder have loads of problems but took a step to solving one of them by signing Serbian big man Nenad Krstic.

The ReD Foxes has become one of the leading dance teams throughout the world, performing at four European Championships, two World Championships and two Olympics.

The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife starts the First World War and leads to nine million deaths.

Forget the cheap flight, and book an international rail journey to the Hungarian capital city from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Serbia, Romania and Croatia

To break into the Travel Writing industry and carve a career in this field, these professional writing courses will equip new writers with the skills needed to impress.

Everton lead the charge of English Premiership clubs in the UEFA Cup. Spurs and Bolton look to make progress also and Rangers and Aberdeen represent the SPL

Archaeologists are still searching for the lost city of Tylis, the capital of a short-lived Celtic tribal state established in the territory of modern Bulgaria in 279 BC.

Lord Alfred Tennyson stated that "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" In "Empire of Dreams" one recurring dream shapes the persona.

Low-cost budget airlines flying to Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN) have cheap flights and discount airfares from London, the UK, Scandinavia, and Southern Europe.

Low-cost airlines have cheap airfares and discounted tickets on flights from Europe to EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL, MLH, EAP) in Switzerland and France.

CSKA Moscow extended their Euroleague record with their seventh consecutive appearance in the Final Four and now go looking for their third title in four seasons.

On November 25, 2008 the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada decided that a Croatian man convicted of war crimes could not be deported and returned to Croatia.

Danube (Donau) River cruises can be lengthened by adding the Main, Rhine, and Moselle Rivers to cruise itineraries. Departure ports include Passau, Vienna, and Budapest.

Franz Beckenbauer is the biggest name in German soccer history, winning the World Cup as a player and coach and bringing the 2006 spectacle to Deutschland.

Madonna is back in Europe with her spectacular Sticky and Sweet concert. The tour, already the biggest grossing for a solo artist, visits 23 cities in 19 countries.

A brief history of the legendary Orient Express and a visit to its terminal in Istanbul near the Golden Horn.

Inter-state wars are rare, the war on terror is an entirely new conflict, and some battles are just struggles between criminal gangs. It's time to rewrite the rules.

Winning the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics made the United States men's volleyball team members household names. With the new year, though, comes changes.

In the 18th century, Rigas Feraios drafted the first constitutional text of south-eastern Europe and envisaged a multinational and multicultural Republic in the Balkans.

British presenter Terry Wogan criticizes Eastern Europe for voting according to politics rather than music as 2008's Eurovision Song Contest crowns Russia the winners.

Lord Alfred Tennyson stated that "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" In "Empire of Dreams" one recurring dream shapes the persona.

President Obama's western town halls were anything but open discussions. Some who were kept out say they were slickly engineered, staged photo ops for the president

The collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s gave independence to Lithuania, who soon began to compete in international football in their own right.

Whether by intent or accident, many amazing and significant buildings around the world have been destroyed or simply never made it any further than the drawing board.

Not only have some big teams missed the 2010 World Cup, but some big-time stars as well - here a team many coaches would love to have in South Africa.

The new Gallup Poll reports that Americans do not believe that President Obama will honor the commitment he made not to raise federal income taxes.

One year after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, police from the European Union, backed by NATO peacekeepers, fire tear gas and stun grenades at Serb protesters.

In 1914, Europe was a powder keg waiting for a spark to ignite it. The spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by Black Hand terrorists

Diocletian stabilized the Roman Empire, introducing economic, administrative and social reforms. His actions laid the foundations for the division of the empire.

Led by Walter the Penniless and Peter the Hermit the People's Crusade preceded the First Crusade by several months.