Karadzic arrest 'expected today'

The chief UN war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia said she expected one of the most wanted figures from the Balkan wars, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, to be arrested today.

Carla del Ponte refused to disclose the basis for her optimism that Karadzic, who has been in hiding for nearly a decade, would be taken into custody by the end of the month.