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 ...

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of its reunification this month. To Europeans born since, it must be hard to imagine a capital disfigured by the Berlin Wall and a continent divided by the Iron ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I can’t wait until July 10 to stand on the site of the concrete wall that once split Berlin into east and west. Doing so had long been on my bucket list, dating to my first tour of ...

A group in Berlin has sent Donald Trump a piece of the barrier that divided East and West for nearly three decades as a dig at the president's southern U.S. border plans. A 2.7-tonne section of the ...

Tijuana’s mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America’s latest stretch of border wall. “May this be a lesson to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Telepool’s Global Screen and Elsani & Neary Media are joining forces to develop a television series based on the true stories of the people who dug Tunnel 29, the famed secret passage from ...

MAINZ, Germany — The longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has been saved from the threat of demolition. The so-called East Side Gallery, a three-quarter of a mile stretch that is famous for ...

In retrospect, the Wall didn’t last especially long. Twenty-eight years—roughly the span of our youth—and then it was gone: broken into chunks, carted away as souvenirs, placed on mantles and shelves, ...