UN Serb employee killed in Kosovo

An ethnic Serb employee of the United Nations mission in Kosovo has been found dead, after being missing for a week.

The head of the mission, Bernard Kouchner, said the man Petar Topoljski was found stabbed to death in Rimaniste, northeast of the provincial capital, Pristina, on Sunday.

Mr Kouchner described the killing as shocking and appalling.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service