We top it off with our recommendations for wonderful new hotels ( Best New Hotels) from Wyoming to Belgrade, with some chilled-out tropical hideaways in between.

FORBES: Editor's Note

One opposition leader held out the hope that rallies in Belgrade would resume in the new year.

BBC: Milosevic opponents call off rallies

Bombing resumed after the pilot of the US F-117 Stealth fighter was rescued, and new explosions were reported on Sunday in Belgrade and south west of the capital.

BBC: News | EUROPE | Nato loses first plane

Simeunovic was last seen on November 6 in a Belgrade restaurant, a month after new democratic leadership took power.

CNN: Body of missing Yugoslav judge found

The new arrangement is designed to mollify Montenegrins who want to declare full independence from Belgrade, while keeping the tiny republic within some sort of union.

BBC: Yugoslavia opts to end federation

With moderates Mr Rugova and the new Yugoslav president, Vojislav Kostunica relishing their success in Pristina and Belgrade, their respective capitals, diplomats are dusting down old ideas for a compromise over Kosovo's future.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

With luck a new resolution might be passed in March but Russia's ambassador to Belgrade says his country is ready to veto Kosovo's independence.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo's future

For new manager Eddie May, much will depend on whether striker Danijel Marceta, on loan from Partizan Belgrade, proves to be as exciting a talent as Falkirk's website suggests.

BBC: SPL - Scotland's standard bearer

The coalition government that runs Macedonia, in power for only five months and still feeling its way, is an uneasy alliance between two Slav parties, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation less nationalist than its name suggests and Democratic Alternative, a new pro-market and discreetly pro-Serbian party, whose leaders once had political careers in Belgrade or still have business contacts there.

ECONOMIST: The Macedonian exit route