May, Sayyed Ayyed and dozens of other unemployed Palestinian men gathered at the foot of the towering wall of concrete and barbed wire dividing the occupied West Bank from Israel. A smuggler was there with a ladder and ropes.

May, Sayyed Ayyed and dozens of other unemployed Palestinian men gathered at the foot of the towering wall of concrete and barbed wire dividing the occupied West Bank from Israel.

Romania's parliament on Tuesday approved the central bank's new board, led by the world's longest serving governor Mugur Isarescu, who said the main challenge for the European Union state would be lowering a ballooning budget deficit.

Romania’s Mugur Isarescu extended his tenure as the world’s longest-serving central bank governor after receiving approval from lawmakers for a new five-year term.

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest The joint session of the two chambers of the Romanian parliament approved, on October 1, the management structures of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) as well as those of the Financial Supervision Authority (ASF) and the National Broadcasting Council (CNA),