Serbian police have arrested a man they suspect was the sniper who killed Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, according to CNN.com. Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic said the suspect in custody was Zvezdan Jovanovic, a former deputy commander of the Red Berets, an elite unit of police troops under former President Slobodan Milosevic. Police found the suspect and the rifle they believed was used in the killing at an undisclosed site in Belgrade. Two other former high-ranking officers of the same unit were also arrested, according to CNN.com. More than 750 people, including Serbia's deputy public prosecutor, have been taken into custody since Djindjic, a pro-West reformer, was assassinated in central Belgrade two weeks ago. Authorities said the assassins belong to the Zemun Clan, a crime network named after a Belgrade neighborhood that controls drug trafficking and other organized crime. Officials said the group has close links with those loyal to Milosevic, who is on trial for war crimes at the U.N. tribunal at The Hague. The Zemun Clan's alleged chiefs still remain at large.

CDC says fatal disease may be linked to common cold

The mysterious "flu-like" ailment that has been blamed for more than 17 deaths worldwide may be a virus linked to the common cold, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Their molecular analysis, which contradicts previous findings by scientists in Asia and Europe, links the cause of the baffling respiratory syndrome known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) to a coronavirus, according to The Boston Globe. CDC scientists based their claim on a review of tissue samples as well as blood and nasal secretions from a small number of the 458 patients around the world suspected of having contracted SARS. They said that both the genetic profile of the virus as well as the way patients' immune systems reacted to it suggested the disease was caused by a coronavirus. But the CDC chief cautioned that it is too soon in the investigation of SARS to eliminate any potential suspects. If a coronavirus is ultimately proven to be the source of SARS, it would represent the fourth strain of that virus to be identified. Another strain is among the dozens responsible for the common cold and upper respiratory infections.

Mass. Gov. Romney plans restructuring of state colleges

Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's education chief outlined a plan last week which would counter the current "453 percent increase in student fees over 15 years" saying that "the state's public college system is out of control," according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The plan included $68 million in savings through cuts to 22 state and community colleges, including $3 million from Holyoke Community College and $1.7 million from Greenfield Community College. The two would be merged under Romney's plan. Romney's administration believes that low graduation rates and skyrocketing student fees are symptoms of the state's higher education problems. While student fees have increased more than 400 percent, tuition increased by just three percent over the same time-span. Romney's restructuring would strip campuses of the ability to raise fees, which schools rely on because, unlike tuition, 100 percent of fee revenue stays on campus. Schools point to a $108 million drop in state funding over the past two years in defense of the fees, according to the Gazette.