Belgrade

Two former members of a Serbian paramilitary police unit and 10 co-conspirators were found guilty on Wednesday of the assassination of reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic four years ago. The verdict in the biggest and most controversial trial since the fall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 came as little surprise.

European Union (EU) enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn on Tuesday urged Belgrade and Podgorica to engage in constructive talks on their ”velvet divorce” after Montenegro’s historic independence referendum on May 21. Rehn said that both sides must adhere to standards agreed upon with the EU over the dissolution of their loose federation.

Serbia’s royal family issued a statement in the style of a personal ad on Monday seeking local wives for its three unmarried princes. ”Princess wanted!” and ”How to become a princess in Serbia” read the headlines to the statement, in which Prince Peter (25) and his twin brothers Philip and Alexander (23) said they are ready to meet the loves of their lives.

A postcard sent from a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Germany in 1942 has been delivered to its address in Serbia after more than 63 years, local media reported on Wednesday. Michael Cronenberg, a German antiques dealer bought a postcard, written by prisoner of war Vojislav Dzeletovic on June 26, 1942 from a camp in eastern Germany to his wife Bosiljka, at a flea market in Germany.

Thousands of tiny frogs rained on a town in north-western Serbia, Belgrade daily Blic reported on Tuesday. Strong winds brought storm clouds over Odzaci, 120km north-west of Belgrade, on Sunday afternoon, but instead of rain, down came the tiny amphibians, witnesses said.

Three actors filming a bank-robbery scene in Novi Sad, northern Serbia, were mistakenly arrested by police, daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Wednesday. The three were running out of the bank wearing masks and carrying plastic guns, as the script demanded.

The Serbian Education Ministry bowed to a public outcry and reinstated Charles Darwin’s theory of human evolution to the school programme. Earlier this week, Education Minister Ljiljana Colic, who maintains she prays every night to a Serbian saint for enlightenment in her work, said that she had scrapped Darwin’s theory from the eighth-grade curriculum.

The United States has asked Yugoslavia to grant US citizens legal immunity from extradition in cases heard by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, says a Yugoslav offical.