BBC News with Julie Candler
The former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at The Hague on war crimes charges. General Mladic, who's now 70, faces 11 charges, including genocide and the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. The BBC's Allan Little was in court.
Mladic is physically diminished, but he's no less
defiant
. He came into court gesturing to the public gallery, a
sarcastic
slow handclap and a thumbs up - aimed almost certainly at the widows of men killed at Srebrenica. The prosecution in chilling detail described the progress of the Serb war effort that Mladic had directed. Its purpose was to separate Bosnia's Serbs from its Muslims and Croats. Mladic denies all the charges and insists he was merely defending the Serb people. But tomorrow the court turns its attention exclusively to the massacre at Srebrenica in July 1995. By then, the prosecution said today, Mladic's men were "well-rehearsed in the craft of murder".
As Greece struggles to deal with its massive debt problems, a
caretaker
prime minister has been sworn in after the main parties failed to form a coalition government
in the wake of
inconclusive elections. Panagiotis Pikrammenos, a senior judge, will oversee the period before fresh elections are held on 17 June. The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the Greek people had to realise that Greece's future in the euro was at stake.