Berlin - The Berlin Wall may have long since been demolished, but visitors are flocking to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum - just yards from the spot where Russian and American tanks angrily squared up to one another at the height of the Cold War. The museum, depicting some of the more bizarre escapes made during the Wall's 29-year-old history, and the grim methods used by the East German regime to stop its citizens fleeing the communist state, has been crowded with visitors over the Easter weekend.

Warsaw - Twenty-one people were killed and some 20 others injured when a hostel for the homeless burned down Monday in north- western Poland. Seventy-seven people were registered in the hostel in the Baltic Sea coastal town of Kamien Pomorski, some 500 kilometres north-west of the capital Warsaw.

The fire was so ferocious and spread so greatly that there was no hope of extinguishing it and rescuers concentrated on saving people from the flames, a firefighter told TVN24.

Washington - The US Board of Immigration Appeals ruled Friday that Nazi-era war-crimes suspect John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany. The decision means that federal agents can pick him up at any time and send him to Germany, the Plain Dealer newspaper reported.

Demjanjuk, who turned 89 on April 3, had filed a last-minute court motion to stop his deportation, arguing that he was too ill to travel and stand trial. His bid to stay in the US was to avoid likely prosecution for his role in the killings of 29,000 Jews.