Hundreds of protesters have forced construction crews to stop work on removing a small section from one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall to make way for a luxury flats project.

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-1989

Richard Fitzpatrick reads a fascinating account of tumultuous events in the early 1980s when the Cold War threatened to erupt into all-out confrontation.

BOBBY Farrell, of the 1970s European chart-topping group Boney M, was found dead in his hotel bed yesterday while on tour in Russia, his agent said. He was 61. He failed to respond to a wake-up call by hotel staff.

Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, the chart-topping 70s group, has died while on tour in Russia aged 61, his agent has said.

EAST GERMAN leader Erich Honecker famously proclaimed in 1989 that the Berlin Wall could remain in place for another 100 years.

POLICE blew up suspicious-looking packages, took up positions on virtually every street corner and made sweeping passes with helicopters over downtown Vienna yesterday as Austria prepared for its first visit by a US president in 27 years.

The world of Christendom, like an extended family, yesterday held vigil for Pope John Paul II, who lay unconscious and gravely ill in his Vatican sickbed.

RONALD REAGAN, the B-movie star who became the 40th President of the United States, was the only professional actor to have reached the White House.

WHILE recuperating from an assassination attempt in 1981, President Reagan wrote a heartfelt four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, asking if they could work together to reduce the tensions between their nations, according to a new book about Reagan’s letters.