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.

She was born in a country that no longer exists, in an East German hospital on Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. Jamila al-Yousef’s birthday is part of history, the date ...

"If you take these parts of the Wall away, you take away the soul of the city," said Ivan McClostney, 32, who moved here a year ago from Ireland. "This way, you make it like every other city. It's ...

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for ...

You want to tear down the Berlin Wall from your sofa in Brooklyn? No problem, this museum in Berlin created an AR app using Minecraft Earth that lets you tear down the wall from anywhere in the world.

Now that barrier was coming down. I actually got word that the Berlin Wall fell late Thursday, November 9th, 1989, as I walked into the New York 6th Avenue newsroom of my then-employer (later to ...

BERLIN, Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Fifty years after the Berlin Wall was literally built overnight on Aug. 13, 1961, very little of it is left to look at. So little in fact, that some -- even those ...

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, ... Here, U.S. and East German soldiers could stare each other down, separated by only a few dozen yards of barbed wire.