Romania is to sign a new deal with the IMF in a bid to deal with its economic problems, Romanian President Traian Basescu has said. Basescu said at a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday he said the agreement will be signed next March after the current one expires.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been received by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York City. The meeting took place after the opening of the UN General Assembly summit on the Millenium Development Goals.

United Nations observers did not record any cases of Bosnian forces opening artillery fire in 1993 and 1994 during the conflict in Sarajevo, a prosecution witness has told the court trying Radovan Karadzic.