One of Barnsley’s biggest housing developments in the last decade has been approved, despite one resident comparing it to the ...

One of the most iconic reminders of the Cold War era, Checkpoint Charlie, was dismantled on 1990. The iconic checkpost served ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Europe and ...

Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ... was the nickname that Western Allies gave the best-known border crossing point between East and West Berlin.

by Rick Steves, December 16, 2024 | Remaining segments of the Berlin Wall provide a reminder of the impact this 30-year-long division had on peoples' lives. Read more here.

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, just as a heavily fortified fence cut all of East Germany off from the West.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Rothweiler was in Rome on the historic night of Nov. 9, 1989, when East German citizens began crossing freely through the Berlin Wall for the first time in nearly three decades.

Harris had his winning shot but was blocked from crossing back into West Berlin. The wall was literally being prised apart but, Harris didn’t have the correct papers, and Soviet bureaucracy ...