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Visitors to Bosnia's Mount Bjelasnica lugged skis through mud to reach ski-lifts this week as spring-like weather following the planet's hottest January spoilt their usual winter activity. "I was caught by surprise when I saw this mud, it's different from the last year," said Aida Dedic, a skier who had travelled to Bjelasnica from the Netherlands. Other European ski destinations, such as Italy, have also seen entire mountains snowless and ski centres abandoned as risi...

Visitors to the otherwise picturesque historic town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia are first greeted by the sight of a huge floating waste dump caught in the deep turquoise waters of the Drina river canyon. The Drina winds its way through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia, where the Visegrad hydro-power plant built a makeshift barrier out of old oil drums in the depths of the canyon some 20 years ago, protecting its dam from the debris carried by the river. "There are about 5,000 cubic metres ...

Plastic peril: Drina river pollution poses threat to tourism and health in Bosnias Visegrad | Travel

Several thousand people gathered in Sarajevo city centre on Sunday, waving Palestinian and Bosnian flags and demanding a halt to the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Some chanted: "Genocide, genocide," while a large and prominent banner read "Yesterday Srebrenica, today Gaza," referring to the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two in which Serb forces killed an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Other demonstrators held banners with s...

October will be a good month for weekend stargazers as each weekend will feature a different astronomical event, ranging from meteor showers to two types of eclipses. The cool and crisp autumn weather will mean skywatchers and night owls may need to dig out hoodies and heavy coats from the closet before spending time outside soaking in views of the cosmos. From a ring of fire to a flurry of shooting stars, here are the astronomy events in October that you won't want to miss. The first full ...

A migrant reception center on Italy’s southernmost island is trying to cope with thousands of people who arrived on boats within a span of 24 hours.

She says she would name her dolls the "Bosnian Barbie dolls" and she is planning costumes for a Bosnian folklore Ken.

[1/5] Workers prepare the red carpet for the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, which first took place during the Bosnian War, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,…