Checkpoint

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…

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…

Take an LGBTQ tour of Strawberry Hill House Things to do CULTURE MILE NIGHTS: Tonight's the first of three Culture Mile Nights, a programme of after-dark events that celebrates the night-time economy of Smithfield. Hear the stories of bar staff in the area …

The son of a former German president has been murdered on stage while delivering a medical lecture in Berlin, police have said. Fritz von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death at a Charlottenburg hospital where he worked as a senior physician after the attacker j…

While covering the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this month, I ran into a snag. Even though I had submitted my application to the German chancellors office well beforehand, the group of underpaid young temporary workers contracted ou…

On November 8, 1989, the Berlin Wall stretched over eighty-seven miles, surrounding West Berlin and separating it from its eastern counterpart just as it had for the past twenty-eight years. The next day, the East German (German Democratic Republic, or GDR) g…

November 9, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain separating East and West in the Cold War. The Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans escaping to the West, but thousands found ways t…

The fall of the Berlin Wall changed the world. It brought an end to Communist regimes right across Europe, and finished Russia as a superpower. And yet it happened entirely by accident, as a result of two badly chosen words at a press conference. That Thursd…