The Final of the Eurovision 2008 Song Contest will take place at Belgrade Arena tonight. As the European public and music lovers are awaiting for the Eurovision 2008 winner and who will host the Eurovision 2009, the favorites are Sirusho of Armenia with Qele, Qele, Dima Belan of Russia and Diana Gurtskaya of Georgia.

Police is using tear gas to disperse crowds of rioting people who have been attacking embassies in Belgrade. The closed U.S. embassy building has been set on fire. The Turkish, Croatian and Bosnian legations have also come under attack.

Whether from a nostalgia for its existence as an imperial centre or as an escape from reality, the literary obsession of the Serbian capital grows with every passing season.

Serbs vote this Sunday in Serbia in a presidential election seen to shape the Balkan state's future direction amid rising tensions over the status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo.

What future for Kosovo? Early last spring, it seemed the formally Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians was poised to gain full independence, in accordance with a plan by United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president.

Authorities in Montenegro have arrested a former Serbian government official and police commander wanted in The Hague for murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Several hundred extreme nationalists have rallied in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, in support of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, who is wanted on genocide charges for his role in the 1990s Balkan Conflict.

A court in Belgrade has convicted 12 men in connection with the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

The EU says it can restart talks with Serbia "very soon," once Belgrade has shown enough progress on arresting war crimes suspects. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn was speaking in Belgrade hours after Serbia's parliament confirmed a pro-Western coalition government.

The European Commission has hailed "good progress" toward the formation of a pro-Western government in Serbia and advanced the prospect of closer ties between Belgrade and the European Union.

The Rolling Stones have asked to change the venue for a concert in Belgrade to spare hundreds of horses from enduring a potentially traumatic experience. The July 14 concert was due to be held at the Serbian capital's Hippodrome racetrack until animal protection society ORCA complained the noise would traumatise the 300 horses kept in the nearby stables.