Berlin, Germany News

Yesterday, Marlene Muehlmann saw the Berlin Wall tumble down.

Along with tens of thousands of young people from around the world, she decorated one of 1,000 giant dominoes erected along the strip that once divided East and West Germany and then toppled to commemorate the end of the cold war.

"I knew everything already, how the border was," says Marlene, a 9th-grader who lives in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, not far from where the wall was. "The parents in half the class had something to do with it." She knew that her mother fled through Hungary, having been prevented from taking her high school exam because of her parents' church activities. She knew, too, that her friend's grandfather was put in jail when he tried to escape, only to be denounced by a friend.

Michelle Obama and President Obama have full schedules in the United States this week and they could not make the trip for the 20th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall, the wall was torn down on the evening of Nov.

AP Giant domino pieces installed along a stretch of the Berlin Wall's original path are seen at Brandenburg By MELISSA EDDY and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press Writers Mon Nov 9, 9:30 pm ET BERLIN Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the ...

Berlin, Nov 10. Celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago ended in a fanfare of fireworks on Monday, after a thousand giant dominoes toppled in the centre of the once-divided city, watched by leaders and statesmen from Europe and the world.

By Serena Sartini BERLIN, Germany, NOV. 9, 2009 .- On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city's archbishop is recalling the moment of Germany's reunification with gratitude.

Jeffrey A. Engel is Associate Professor and Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse '49 Faculty Fellow at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

Below are remarks by world leaders and dignitaries attending the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the reunification of East and West Germany.

Der britische Dirigent Sir Simon Rattle bedankt sich am 1. Februar 2007 fuer die 'Goldene Kamera' in der Spezial-Kategorie Integration bei der Preisverleihung des Medienpreises der Fernsehzeitung 'Hoerzu' in Berlin.

Dominoes to fall like the wall Giant, illuminated foam dominoes snake a mile along the former path of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, two days before they are to be tipped over to symbolize the fall of communist governments in 1989.

Fox News reports that the WH is taking heat over our celebrity President's decision not to attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall: The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say ...

PETER AND ANGELA Hofmann aren't a typical German couple. For one thing, they met online, a rarity in this techno-wary country.

Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

Washington is pausing this week to honor and reflect on the meaning of what happened 20 years ago in 1989, when on Nov.

'Can no longer be called an industrial wasteland' Updated: Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 9:09 AM EST Published : Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 9:08 AM EST KIRSTEN GRIESHABER,Associated Press Writer BERLIN - Rotkaeppchen sparkling wine.

Friday, November 06, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. Getting ready to make her way out of town, Bar Refaeli was spotted leaving the Ritz Carlton hotel in Berlin, Germany on Friday .

U2 performed a short set in Germany on Thursday, November 5th to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

West Berliners gather at the Berlin Wall Nov. 11, 1989, two days after the walla TMs fall, as East German border guards open a new crossing point.

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. If Humpty Dumpty had been sitting on top of it, not Soviet soldiers, nor Stasi spies could put Humpty together again.

From the elegant, to the what-were-they-thinking? a ' outfits ran the gamut at the music awards in Germany.

Beyonce has scooped a hat-trick of prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards, dedicating one of them to husband Jay-Z. The singer beat Leona Lewis among others to take home the Best Female gong, and also won Best Song for Halo and Best Video for Single Ladies on Thursday night.