The city's past is visible in bombed-out buildings left unrepaired, but the vibe is hip, not tragic, and travelers are trickling back.

Meanwhile in Belgrade, a driver rammed a car into a silent protest Friday, injuring two women who work as doctors at a nearby psychiatric institution. Media reports say both hit their heads on the ...

Belgrade is a city on the mend. The Serbian capital (and capital of the former Yugoslavia) spent most of the 1990s ravaged by war and the megalomaniacal leadership of war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

But let's get one thing straight: Belgrade is not Prague or Budapest or Vienna. It's not even Bratislava. The same lovely river, the Danube, waltzes through each city.

BELGRADE, Serbia – On a bright autumn day, Renato Grbic was out fishing on the Danube with his brother when he heard a big splash. At first, he thought somebody had thrown something off the bridge.

The incident, the third of its kind in weeks, happened in downtown Belgrade during 15 minutes of silence observed daily throughout Serbia, at the same time as the canopy collapsed in Novi Sad.

The city's past is visible in bombed-out buildings left unrepaired, but the vibe is hip, not tragic, and travelers are trickling back.

Fisherman Renato Grbic steers his boat near the Pancevo Bridge over the Danube river in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Sept 18, 2012. Grbic has saved the lives of 25 people who attempted to kill ...

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On the section where his tavern "At Renato and Goca" is located, the Danube is almost one kilometre (0.6 miles) wide. In the winter mist, it is hard to make out even the other side of the bank.