A meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, Sep. 15, failed to agree to unblock a trade accord with Serbia. Twenty-five EU member states and the EU Commission were in favor of immediately implementing the deal. However, The Netherlands vetoed the accord. Insisting Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, be first delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

Mladic and Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic are charged with, among other things, genocide relating to events in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. This is a sensitive issue for The Dutch. Dutch UN peacekeepers that were present in the town at the time. Karadzic was arrested in the Serbian capital Belgrade in July but Mladic is still at large.

At an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on Monday, Sep. 1, the European Council considered the European Union's (EU) response to the Russian-Georgian conflict and Russia's subsequent recognition of parts of Georgia as independent states.

The European Council consists of the 27 heads of the EU member states. France currently holds the rotating presidency. French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, called the first emergency summit since 2003 to find a united response to the conflicts in the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The summer of 2008 will go down as, "The Summer Aliens (Almost) Invaded the UK."

It started in May, when the British Government released previously secret UFO files to the National Archives. The files included corroborated reports from reputable sources of UFOs hovering over British cities.

In one amazing incident from 1984, air-traffic controllers describe a, "brilliant solid ball of light, bright silvery in colour," land on a runway in front of them, then takeoff in a near vertical climb. These stories appearing in both the national press and on TV caused quite a stir.

A small European Union youth organization, the Young European Federalists has rattled cages. The minor think tank normally attracts little attention, but one of their sillier ideas has outraged the, even sillier, UK Euro-phobes.

In an open letter, the group, normally known by its French acronym JEF, called for a "EU Olympic Team," as "a way to combat nationalism that is always very fast in spreading on these sportive occasions.".

After nearly 13 years on the run, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made his first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Holland.

On Thursday, Karadzic was read the 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide, with which he is charged. He notified the court that he intends to represent himself, and declined to enter a plea. He has 30 day to do so. Judge Alphons Orie adjourned the case until Aug. 29.