The heavily fortified 106 km (65 mile) Wall, built in 1961 and encircling West Berlin, was breached on the night of November 9, 1989.

Chunks of concrete from the Berlin Wall are sold as memorabilia. Germany's parliament recently gave one chunk as a gift to the United Nations. But the artist who painted it says he deserves to be ...

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city's mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany - both in a positive and ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.

He’d gone to Berlin that summer of 1989 and returned to The States with a chunk from the wall in his suitcase. I was appreciative of his generosity.