Checkpoint

The two cities have had shared stresses, balancing radically different ideologies. Jeffrey Wasserstrom February 8, 2020 Hong Kong residents wave Chinese flags during the lead-up to the handover of the city from Britain to China in 1997.Claro Cortes / ReutersHong Kong and West Berlin stand about as far apart as…

It was with some trepidation that I accepted the invitation to speak in Lahore. After all, I was born in India and did not know how I would be received there given recent relations between India and Pakistan. But I had always been curious to see Pakistan for …

We are huge fans of Luisa Weiss, OG food blogger and author of My Berlin Kitchen, as well as one of the definitive books on German baking. Luisa lives in Berlin with her two young sons and husband, Max, and we’re so happy she’s here to share some favorite spo…

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…