PODGORICA (AFP) - Archaeologists in Montenegro have discovered a tooth believed to belong to Neanderthal man dating back between 40,000 and 150,000 years, a museum official said Saturday. The tooth was found in Crvena Stijena (Red Rock) and “belonged to Neanderthal man,” Zvezdana Lucic, director of the museum in the northwestern town of Niksic, told reporters. Mitra Cerovic of the Montenegrin Center for Archaeology Research said the discovery had been confirmed by US experts from the Archaeology Museum of the University of Michigan. “All research and analogies show that it was a tooth of a Neanderthal,” Cerovic said, adding that research would last between five and 10 years.

BELGRADE (AP) - Another top suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has surrendered to police, media reported on Saturday. Dejan Milenkovic gave himself up after more than 14 months on the run, Studio B television and B92 radio reported, citing anonymous sources. The independent Beta news agency attributed its report on the surrender to an unidentified lawyer involved in the assassination trial. There was no immediate official confirmation of Milenkovic’s surrender, and police declined to comment.

More than 160 Romanians have been expelled from Italy and Spain for working or living illegally in the two countries, Romanian border police said Saturday. The 164 Romanians were sent back on chartered planes from Spain and Italy on Thursday, police said in a statement. (AP)

Bulgarian doctors and nurses staged protests across the country on Saturday in support of five Bulgarian nurses who were sentenced to death in Libya in a case involving AIDS-contaminated blood. Some 200 doctors and nurses marched through the streets of Sofia and handed the government a petition against the sentences given to their colleagues on May 6 in the northern Libyan city of Benghazi. Others left their posts to stand outside the hospitals in the capital in silent protest. (AFP)

A moderate earthquake shook Istanbul and surrounding areas early yesterday, waking some residents but causing no reported damage or casualties. The temblor occurred at 6.30 a.m. local time and had a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 Richter, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said. The epicenter was in the Marmara Sea, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Istanbul. (AP)