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A primary school pupil is being quizzed by police in Varazdin, Croatia, after he beat his teacher senseless.

Hundreds of miles of Europe's busiest waterway are frozen solid - and from Bavaria to Bulgaria, the continent's economy is seizing up too.

Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic yesterday because of thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europes busiest waterway, as the continents cold snap death toll reached past 540.

ZAGREB, Feb 10, 2012 -- Website of Croatia's Presidential Office was attacked and shut down for hours by hackers Wednesday night, according to a statement from the office.

Radovan Karadzic's wartime personal secretary told The Hague tribunal this week that her boss, then the president of Republika Srpska, was a "kind person" who was "not intolerant" of people of other ethnicities.

No one could complain of a lack of audacity in Angelina Jolie's first film as director.

Lighthouse and lampposts are covered with heavy ice in central Adriatic Croatian port of Senj, some 200 kilometres from Zagreb, as the sun sets on February 8, 2012.

Authorities say a barricaded man killed himself and two others following a standoff at a South Florida recreational vehicle park.

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Tomislav Mercep, a former Croatian assistant interior minister, denied war crimes charges and called on senior wartime officials to testify in his favour as his trial began in Zagreb on Friday.

Croatia Airlines will launch new seasonal flights from Rijeka to Barcelona and Zadar to Frankfurt.

Town Hall officials are facing a 10 million GBP compensation bill from residents who say they were injured slipping over when freak weather conditions covered a Mediterranean town in eight inches of snow.

Lighthouse and lampposts are covered with heavy ice in the central Adriatic Croatian port of Senj, some 200 kilometres from Zagreb on Thursday.

Croatia's EU referendum was to be its ticket from the miserable Balkans. Instead, it's just joined a Balkanized Europe.

Ice-breakers on Tuesday battled Europe's big chill as the Danube river froze over more for than 170 kilometres, and dozens died of cold on a continent gripped by some of the lowest temperatures in decades.

This eight-bedroom stone villa, built in 2005, was designed to house a large extended family or to function as an owner-occupied vacation rental.

A huge wolf attacked terrified motorists in their cars at a motorway service station after being driven out of a nearby forest in the hunt for food, say police in Split, Croatia.

Eastern countries such as Poland and Ukraine account for more than half this total, and dozens more have succumbed to the weather's secondary effects, such as asphyxiation by shoddy heating.

Workers in some sectors are already marked for job loss due to funding cuts, but authorities say other sectors will receive EU funding as a result of the accession process.

Balkan leaders agree to boost economic co-operation at a meeting in Sarajevo. Also in business news: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Bulgaria to diversify its oil and gas supplies.