Checkpoint

On the night that Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were shot by firing squad in full sight of TV cameras, their bloodied corpses seen around the world as they lay sprawled on the ground behind a courthouse in the town of Targoviste, my grandmother, a Romanian exil…

David John Moore Cornwell, also known by the pen name John le Carré, has been revealed as the winner of the Olof Palme prize "for his engaging and humanistic opinion making in literary form regarding the freedom of the individual and the fundamental issues of…

Armed police have descended on Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin after several shots were fired at a shop. German police tweeted to say that 'we have the situation under control' after an apparent armed robbery at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Kochstrasse, j…

BERLIN David Hasselhoff has been famous for decades, ever since he beefcaked through four seasons with a talking Trans Am on Knight Rider and served as the bare-chested voice of reason on Baywatch alongside a slew of swimsuited Playmates posing as lifeguards.…

Outside Nordbahnhof station, where Bernauer Straße rises up the hill between the districts of Mitte and Wedding, there is a grassy field where the Berlin Wall once stood. It occupies the former death strip, the no-mans land between the inner and outer walls o…

(CNN) Checkpoint Charlie, the former border checkpoint between East and West Berlin, is set to get a major makeover after city authorities approved a redevelopment plan following years of debate. The historic site will be remodeled to include a public square…

Located at the very heart of the once divided city, the border crossing between then-communist East and democratic West was famously the scene of a dramatic stand-off between Soviet and American tanks in October 1961. Since German reunification in 1990 it ha…

Berlin's iconic Checkpoint Charlie will undergo a drastic facelift after the city government reached consensus on moving forward with a contested redevelopment plan on Tuesday. The former border crossing once divided the city into the communist East and the …

The start of this decade wasnt quite as momentous a moment of geopolitical opening up. Rather, the past 10 years has seen more countries become more accessible than ever, thanks to a loosening of restrictions and increased air links. For starters, theres bee…

The pictures were taken by photographer Frank Thiel in 1994, several years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before British, French, Russian and US forces that had been stationed in Berlin since World War II were re-deployed. They were installed at Check…