The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro - Jailed former president Slobodan Milosevic and another UN war crimes suspect won seats in Serbia's parliament as an extreme nationalist party swept weekend elections, according to results released Monday. Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical party, which supported Milosevic's Balkan war campaigns in the 1990s, won 81 seats in Sunday's ballot for the 250-seat parliament - far more than the pro-Western groups that toppled Milosevic three years ago. Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49.21 feet long and weighs nearly 992.07 pounds, a local official said Monday. If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in captivity. Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a primitive zoo in Curugsewu village on the country's main island of Java. Frankfurt - Mission controllers on Tuesday redirected Europe's Mars Express orbiter closer to the Red Planet's poles, taking a crucial first step to push it into a lower orbit where it will be able to listen for its missing Beagle 2 surface probe. The craft will be progressively lowered over the next week, when it is to sweep as low as 200-250 kilometres from the surface, using its powerful radar to search for signs of water or ice on the planet during expected two years of surveying.
