The answer may surprise most Jews and even many ardent Zionists. The intellectual roots of political Zionism and the Jewish state did not start with the refined emancipated Jews of fin-de-siècle ...

Serbia has been trying to get a $1.3bn (£830m) loan from the IMF. An MP in the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party, Jorgovanka Tabakovic, is expected to become the new central bank governor.

Serbian police are conducting a wide-ranging manhunt for the killers of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, and have arrested several people linked to a crime syndicate, known as the Zemun gang, which ...