Experts from the Schengen Area evaluation committee will visit Romania from Monday to Wednesday, to assess the country's progress on air borders, after some European Union member states expressed their skepticism about Romania's capacity to join the Area in March 2011.

Three Arabian airlines and a Turkish one will start operating flights to and from Romania in 2011, according to Romanian publication Capital. Qatar Airways has announced it will run four flights from Doha to Bucharest and return every week next year. Ticket prices will stay around EUR 539 and the flight will take around four hours and a half.

A series of Magyar movie screenings will take place at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, in the Horia Bernea studio, from November 14 until November 21. Entry will be free of charge and most of the movies will be subtitled in Romanian- see below complete schedule to see which one will have English subtitles.

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and Transport Minister Anca Boagiu on Saturday cut the ribbon to open a new ten-kilometer section of the Transylvania Highway between Turda and Campia Turzii in northwestern Romania. Boc then got behind the wheel to test the road together with the transport minister.

Romania won the women's team epee world title Friday at the Fencing World Championship in Paris, France. Romania's Anca Maroiu, Simona Alexandru and Ana Branza won 35-26 against Germany in the final.

The Bucharest City Hall has started demolishing the old houses on the Buzesti boulevard in the capital city to expand the boulevard. The first houses – on the right side of the boulevard, coming from Victoriei Square to Vasile Parvan – were demolished on Thursday night and 87 houses in total will be knocked down to make room for the extension.

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) will issue a gold coin celebrating the anniversary of 135 years since the birth of Queen Marie of Romania. The coin will be available from November 15.

Romanian drivers will not be obliged to equip their vehicles with snow tires this winter. The measure will be implemented starting November 2011. Romanian Transport Minister Anca Boagiu said Thursday drivers who will cause accidents or block streets because their cars are not properly equipped will be fined and will be compelled to cover road-clearing costs if they get snowed in.

Movies opening this week-end:

Unstoppable (trailer below)

with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine

On at: Movieplex...

Omar Hayssam, convicted of terrorism in Romania, is currently in a Syrian prison, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview with daily newspaper "Adevarul," adding the two states will discuss a further course of action once Hayssam has served his sentence. The Syrian President also said that the issue is not political, but judicial.

Experts from the Schengen Area evaluation committee will visit Romania from Monday to Wednesday, to assess the country's progress on air borders, after some European Union member states expressed their skepticism about Romania's capacity to join the Area in March 2011.

Three Arabian airlines and a Turkish one will start operating flights to and from Romania in 2011, according to Romanian publication Capital. Qatar Airways has announced it will run four flights from Doha to Bucharest and return every week next year. Ticket prices will stay around EUR 539 and the flight will take around four hours and a half.

A series of Magyar movie screenings will take place at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, in the Horia Bernea studio, from November 14 until November 21. Entry will be free of charge and most of the movies will be subtitled in Romanian- see below complete schedule to see which one will have English subtitles.

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and Transport Minister Anca Boagiu on Saturday cut the ribbon to open a new ten-kilometer section of the Transylvania Highway between Turda and Campia Turzii in northwestern Romania. Boc then got behind the wheel to test the road together with the transport minister.

Romania won the women's team epee world title Friday at the Fencing World Championship in Paris, France. Romania's Anca Maroiu, Simona Alexandru and Ana Branza won 35-26 against Germany in the final.

The Bucharest City Hall has started demolishing the old houses on the Buzesti boulevard in the capital city to expand the boulevard. The first houses – on the right side of the boulevard, coming from Victoriei Square to Vasile Parvan – were demolished on Thursday night and 87 houses in total will be knocked down to make room for the extension.

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) will issue a gold coin celebrating the anniversary of 135 years since the birth of Queen Marie of Romania. The coin will be available from November 15.

Romanian drivers will not be obliged to equip their vehicles with snow tires this winter. The measure will be implemented starting November 2011. Romanian Transport Minister Anca Boagiu said Thursday drivers who will cause accidents or block streets because their cars are not properly equipped will be fined and will be compelled to cover road-clearing costs if they get snowed in.

Movies opening this week-end:

Unstoppable (trailer below)

with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine

On at: Movieplex...

Omar Hayssam, convicted of terrorism in Romania, is currently in a Syrian prison, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview with daily newspaper "Adevarul," adding the two states will discuss a further course of action once Hayssam has served his sentence. The Syrian President also said that the issue is not political, but judicial.