18 years on, Berlin tries to save crumbling remains of Wall
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Eighteen years after the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, Germans are battling to preserve the last remnants of a barrier that still haunts the country.
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Chinese are proud a global poll has named the Great Wall a wonder of the world, but some worry that tourism and neglect are destroying the crumbling fortification designed to defend against foreign invaders.
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A documentary tracking how German unification affected the lives of nine East German women who took part in a beauty pageant just before the Berlin Wall fell offers a glimpse into 19 years of upheaval.
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The Berlin Wall fell 15 years ago but an  "Iron Curtain" still divides the city as far love and romance  are concerned.
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Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Berlin museum plans to rebuild a section of the concrete barrier close to the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
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Another kind of Berlin Wall has fallen. Upstart Canadian construction toy company Mega Bloks Inc.
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An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.
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Subdued observations were held in Berlin Tuesday to mark the 15th anniversary of the tearing down of the Cold War-era Berlin Wall.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Wolfgang Heene, who helped communist East Germany build the Berlin Wall as a young soldier in 1961, has retired to a sleepy village on the Baltic shore -- which in turn is having a barrier built around it.
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Only about 25m of the reinforced concrete wall panels remain. Some of the panels are pock-marked and worse for the wear of time and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who each year caress the lurid graffiti ...
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BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The pair of majestic Buddha cliff-carvings are still disfigured, vandalized three years ago by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But little by little, what remains of the ancient treasures is being restored, with iron rods shoring up their niches and concrete being pumped into cracks across the crumbling stone.
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A hasty U-turn on plans to scrap  Germany's unification day holiday just before the 15th  anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has exposed cracks  in the government and sparked an ugly row about patriotism.
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Germany marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, but many of its people aren&#39;t in the mood for celebration.
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Heated debate is raging in Berlin over what to do with the city's unique wall heritage, says the BBC's Ray Furlong.
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The spectacular Flick collection of modern art is opening in Berlin - but it is tainted by the Nazi past.
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Fast forward some 20 years or so and Germany might very well witness a historic event: the very last mass-market passenger car rolling off one of its assembly lines.
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A team of experts has unearthed an 800-year-old cellar under a central Berlin car park which they say dates the city back to the 12th century, earlier than previously thought.