From Prussia with love: the Scot who ruled Berlin
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HOCHKIRCH, Germany  - He once governed Ukraine and Berlin, controlled Finland, and might have changed British history -- but is little known in his native Scotland.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: Whatever his flaws, this grizzled veteran came from an era that was a world away from today's technocratic politics
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BERLIN -- Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their $193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said yesterday.
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The new head of Berlin&#39;s local rail system admits he used to be a fair-dodger but stopped riding local trains and busses without a ticket more than seven years ago.
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George W. Bush has often  expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in  Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin  Wall on his father&#39;s watch 18 years ago.
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First, London. Then, Scotland. Is there a concerted conspiracy going on  -  and who might be involved?
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Arts & entertainment: Why Alan Plater and Peter Maxwell Davies are bringing a riotous Scottish speakeasy and its boozy owner back to life. By Alfred Hickling.
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BERLIN: The Queen laid a wreath at a Commonwealth war cemetery in eastern Germany yesterday on the second day of a state visit in which she urged Britain and Germany to learn from history.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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By BEN McCONVILLE  EDINBURGH, Scotland - Like U.S.
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Wolfgang Mueller remembers exactly where the Berlin Wall snaked through what is now the massive mall at Potsdamer Platz. He remembers standing near Checkpoint Charlie as a 15-year-old, at a special spot where he could peer through into a cafe in the West.
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Exactly ten years ago I was sitting in a small but cosy flat in the west of   Helsinki, waiting to interview its owner. He was busy in the tiny kitchen,   which lay just past the entrance hall decked out with dozens of cups and   shields won at Karate competitions, preparing a cappuccino for each of us. As   you've probably guessed, his name was Linus Torvalds - the trophies belong to   his wife.
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Â· Brother of dissident group founder held in Vilnius  Â· Irish police carry out searches in Dundalk area
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By Aron Kahn, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 18--Germany was done. American and British bombs had devastated its cities, and the revenge-minded Russian infantry was heading eagerly into Berlin.   It was spring 1945.
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BERLIN - When Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, a legislator in Germany's Parliament, travels around his district deep in conservative Bavaria, he usually talks about local issues and then valiantly attempts to raise international topics.
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The Uefa president gets up to a lot more than we thought according to your efforts. This week's lucky winner is David Squires, who wins a Â£100 bet with BlueSquare. Second prize, Carlton Books's The England Cricket Miscellany, goes to John O'Reilly. Next week we want to see your takes on Lord Coe's Olympic logo shenanigans. Send them to gallery@guardian.co.uk by 6pm on Tuesday June 12 as a jpeg or gif, complete with a TITLE and CAPTION. Anybody who forgets will be made to listen to Sir Alex Ferguson's iPod.
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A leading Berlin politician won an alimony payment of 157,000 euros (about 106,000 pounds) from his ex-wife to conclude a messy public divorce that has titillated Germans.