200 events in seven key locations celebrate this milestone in European history. BERLIN -- Although the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago, suddenly it was standing again -- on the cellphone of ...

At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city's mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany, both in a positive and negative ...

BERLIN - Mark König went home late at night on the 9th of November, or more likely it was already the 10th. He was penniless, having spent every last Deutsche Mark he had on the party of all parties.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West. It began as a barbed wire and cinderblock wall and was then fortified as a heavily guarded 160-km (100-mile) white concrete ...

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin was unveiling a statue of Ronald Reagan Friday on a site overlooking the location of the former president's iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN — On Saturday, Germany and the free ...

One November night 35 years ago, the Berlin Wall cracked and thousands of Berliners poured through. The Iron Curtain had already started to tremor by this point: travel restrictions were easing in ...

I oversee sustainability coverage and curate the Daily Dozen. Nov 08, 2019, 07:21am EST Updated Nov 11, 2019, 08:10am EST The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just represent the destruction of the ...

VIENNA (JTA) — “Neither ox nor donkey can block the path to socialism,” the East German leader Erich Honecker boldly declared on Aug. 14, 1989. Less than three months later, on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall ...

Ceremonies and celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall are taking place in that city today, the 20th anniversary of the day the wall was breached. World leaders joined German Chancellor ...