For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ...

German borrowing costs surged by the most since the fall of the Berlin Wall as a pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost its defences sent its bonds into free fall. In what was described as a ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down ... In the ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an historic spending plan that will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense ...

After the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989, more than one hundred international artists congregated here, painting murals that depicted the world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold ...

The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, with Germany reuniting in October 1990. The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of revolutions in ...