A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks “the world is prettier now” than it was under communism, his wife said.

A Polish railway worker who woke up after 19 years in a coma is coming to terms with modern life, it was reported today.

The museum at former Nazi death camp Majdanek in Poland has cancelled plans to host a production of Jesus Christ Superstar after criticism of the idea, the director said today.