Visoko

Visoko – The Visoko Manor, once home to Slovenian author, politician and Ljubljana mayor Ivan Tavčar (1851-1923), is being renovated with plans to set up a rehabilitation centre and secure tourist accommodation to revive the local economy and enable higher-quality tourist services in the region around the town of Škofja Loka, north-west.

The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute told BIRN on Friday that 13 Bosniaks who disappeared in the village of Kratine in the Vitez municipality on April 17, 1993 have now been identified.

Missing Persons Institute spokesperson Emza Fazlic said that of the 13 identified victims, six were minors when they died.

Sarajevo-based website klix.ba is reporting that the incident happened in the night between Saturday and Sunday, and that "a majority of objects" inside the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos - including icons and holy books - has been destroyed, along with a portion of the roof.

A local website in Visoki said that the main part of the altar has also been "broken."

The discovery of a bizarre natural sphere in Bosnia is baffling archaeologists and opening up new lines of questioning. Might there have been an ancient, advanced civilization in Europe capable of producing these spheres?

A young IT programmer from Visoko, a town 20 km north of Sarajevo, has developed an innovative digital assistant that is winning growing popularity at home, and which he hopes to sell to the giants in the social media world.

Cadence is a software that interacts with its owner, explains its 20-year-old creator, Haris Ascalic.

An exhibition on Ottoman scholar and intellectual Matrakç? Nasuh opened in Belgrade on Sept. 15.

Promoted by the Turkish president's office, the exhibit features items covering the 16th century figure's broad range of achievements in mathematics, history and artistic miniatures.

More than 100 houses were inundated by water across central Bosnia on Sunday and Monday after several days of heavy rains and melting snow, sparking public concerns about a possible repeat of last year's flood disaster in the country.

Officials however urged calm, stressing that although most of Bosnia's rivers were on the rise, they were still far from critical levels.