The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War.

The removal of the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., evokes images of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of ...

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.

It was the biggest rise in yields since March 1990 – in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – when West and East Germany were in the process of reunification. ‘It’s clearly a big ...

A new study shows that among various cognitive abilities, verbal fluency is uniquely linked to longer life in older adults.

Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...

Lauren Yee’s “Mother Russia” is a witty play that focuses on the lives of ordinary people living under the extraordinary ...

BBC Scotland head of news Gary Smith has announced he is stepping down and leaving the corporation after almost 40 years.

I went to East Berlin shortly ... concrete off the wall that had divided Europe my entire life. Everything changed. This past week may be the start of a shift as important as 1989 delivered ...

Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, French President Francois Mitterrand reassured a cautious US that Paris’s ambitions for a more ...