GERMANY: A pensioner has started digging in Germany’s western Ruhr region for the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during World War Two and missing for 70 years, but says he needs a new drill to help him.

THE Amber Room, Katherine Palace, St Petersburg in Russia was commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701, and was presented later to Czar Peter the Great.