BERLIN WALL popularity and BERLIN WALL trends

Germany has reportedly drawn up a six-point plan to rescue Greece and the eurozone's other failed economies in the same way East Germany was rebuilt after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Twenty years ago, war raged across the former Yugoslavia, killing 100,000 people. The Bosnian war was the first in Europe in nearly half a century and, coming after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, was a shock to those who expected those events to yield a lasting peace. What they got instead was the horror of ethnic cleansing at a level not seen in Europe since ...

When the Berlin Wall came down, the former West Germany poured billions into helping the East grow and it paid for the expansion by freezing wages for more than a decade.

we should look at the overthrow of Gaddafi as a beginning, not an end, to one of the most promising political transitions since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Libyans are building a democratic society from the ground up, and that requires the world's engagement.

Embarrassingly the French president said he went to the Japanese site devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami last year but journalists who accompanied him on the trip insist he never left Tokyo.

A 150ft escape tunnel constructed by East German leader Erich Honecker, to be used if his people turned against him, has been discovered and opened to the public.

Joachim Gauck derives some of his standing from his years a pastor in East Germany and his roles in the protests that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on Sunday to support former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck for the presidency, averting a fight with opposition parties that might have distracted her from tackling the euro zone crisis

The fall of the Berlin Wall is crucial to any understanding of the present world, argues Janet Daley.

More than eleven hundred pages long, this epic novel spans fifty years of Hungary’s history, from the start of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nádas chooses to focus on small, quotidian tales, each rendered in almost microscopic detail—an . . . (Subscription required.)

VÁCLAV HAVEL, the dissident playwright who led the Czechoslovakian “velvet revolution” and was one of the fathers of the east European pro-democracy movement that led to the fall of the Berlin wall, has died aged 75.

American intelligence agents have made their share of bad calls: the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq's nuclear cache and chronic missteps in Afghanistan are only a few. So in the hopes of honing analysts' predictive abilities, the spy guys are introducing a new training tactic: videogames.

If CBC's live performance show is underwhelming, try the hot-air balloon escape over the Berlin Wall

Release Time:  For Immediate Release BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On November 9, 1989, the German people broke through a barrier that divided their nation, demonstrating no wall is strong enough to hold back the rising tide of human liberty.  There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny, nor a...

Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?