It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi says this is his country's 'Berlin Wall moment' and calls for world leaders to help ...

A Polish soldier patrols a metal wall along the Belarus border on June 30, 2022, in Kuznica, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty Images) President Donald Trump believes in border walls. “Walls work ...

On 29 March 1974, Czesław Kukuczka stormed into the Polish embassy in East Berlin, threatening to detonate a bomb unless he was allowed to escape to the West. Shot at point-blank range while ...

Berlin, with astonishing courage, displays it—"wearing her wounds like stars," as Virginia Woolf famously described the London of 1940, when it was being bombed and battered by the Luftwaffe.

You’re going to regret it for the rest of your life if you don’t witness this.’” The Berlin Wall met its sudden political demise on November 9, 1989. Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images ...

Berlin has busied itself since the fall of its infamous Wall with becoming one of the most stimulating creative and cultural ...

The council has appointed a design team to draw up detailed plans for a multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Gardens. The town hall previously said it would commit £25m to the project.

President Ronald Reagan welcomed the segment of the wall when it arrived in April 1991, seven months before the opening of the library. Since then, the Berlin Wall fragment has stood behind the ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 during a pro-democracy uprising, it signaled the dissolution of East Germany's communist regime, the reunification of Germany, and the end of the decades-old Cold War ...

A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.