And while on monsters, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic today of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial. Karadzic was also called the Butcher of Bosnia.

Judges said prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support the genocide count covering mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war. 

Presiding Judge Oh-Gon Kwon said there was not enough evidence to "be capable of supporting a conviction of genocide in the municipalities." While the dismissal of the genocide charge was a setback for prosecutors, judges upheld 10 more charges, including a genocide count covering Karadzic's alleged involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men.