It is all thanks to a Cornishman who was in Berlin in 1989, and ended up with a bigger souvenir than he bargained for ...

Families were torn apart. Buildings and entire communities were demolished to make way for the inner-German border. The ...

"The fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago was the happy climax of a movement spanning all of Europe," he said, calling ...

Italian scientists designed a neural network to analyze spectral data from handheld Raman spectroscopy devices.

For 28 years from, 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was the epitome - the defining image - of the cold war. I was in Berlin in December 1989, staying with friends and taking a cold chisel to part of ...

People placed roses on a remaining portion of the Berlin Wall during a ceremony on Saturday German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against taking democracy for granted, at a ceremony marking ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

People started to chip away at the wall to collect pieces as souvenirs, which resulted in large sections of the wall being demolished. This signified the official fall of the Berlin Wall.

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...