Brass band festival trumpets fun-loving image for troubled Serbia
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A young man lies flat on his back with trumpets blasting inches from his ears, while his girlfriend belly dances on a tabletop with a roasted pork leg in one hand and a beer bottle in the other. via PR-inside.com
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As Serbia is criticised over fugitive war crimes suspects, BBC's Gabriel Partos examines the impact on the Balkans.
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BOR, Serbia  - Once a socialist success story, Serbia's bankrupt copper mine is now hoping surging copper prices can attract a new owner with cash to reverse the fortunes of the sprawling complex and dusty town beyond.
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Serbia's parliament has approved a new national emblem and anthem. It is dropping a five-pointed communist star and restoring a coat-of-arms that was last used in the 19th century.
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The three young athletes who waved to a crowd of 15,000 in downtown Belgrade from the balcony of a government building at a post-French Open rally a couple of weeks ago can't change their country's painful past. They can't speed its recovery from years of political strife and economic sanctions.
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He has been a Yugoslav and a Serb and worked under  Tito and Milosevic. So it makes  sense that the place where Goran Paskaljevic really likes to work is Ireland.
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BELGRADE, Jul 25 (IPS) - Serbia has expressed particular satisfaction after  the United Nations failed to agree a new Security Council  resolution aimed at supervised independence for Kosovo.
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Fanfare of trumpets for world's biggest passenger airliner
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BELGRADE, Dec 18 (IPS) - The Serbian government has began an unusual  billboard campaign to mobilise its people under the slogan  'Kosovo is Serbia' ahead of crucial developments that  might lead to independence of the southern, ethnic Albanian  populated province.
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When a reconstituted 36-year-old band headlines Siren, that tells you something (good) about the band and (not-so-good) about the festival.
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Songs lampooning politicians have always been a fixture of Haiti's carnival, but this year, musicians have a new favorite target: U.N. peacekeepers.
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Munching fishbrain bread from Finland, chewing bull's testicles in Buenos Aires -- touring with the rock band Franz Ferdinand can be a real culinary adventure.
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I'm not the kind of guy to toot my own horn, but I believe most of you understand, sympathize and approve of tooting my country's horn. While us Finns have plenty of things to be proud of - Nokia, sauna, and I'm sure there's other stuff - our music is a wide-open door into the dark well of the Finnish psyche, a nation with one of the highest suicide rates in the world and 24 hours of darkness in the winter. With that marketing speech out of the way, behold how hard we rock, how fast and loud we are below the fold.
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He has been a Yugoslav and a Serb and worked under Tito and Milosevic. So it makes sense that the place where Goran Paskaljevic really likes to work is Ireland.
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NOVI SAD, Serbia  - The Petrovaradin fortress held off the Ottoman empire in 1716, but stood no chance on Thursday against 50,000 partygoers converging on "Exit", one of Europe's biggest music festivals.
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Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton.
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THE huge political festival that has taken over the streets of Kiev no longer feels like a protest rally. It looks and acts like a peaceful revolution, or even an alternative government.