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The images on my hotel television screen caught my attention. The camera panned past the Brandenburg Gate and zoomed in on the Berlin Wall, which divided the city for nearly 30 miles.

AS WORLD leaders gathered in Germany last night to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one York priest relived his own experiences of travelling to the city in November, 1989.

World leaders and partying Germans are descending on Berlin Nov. 9 to mark the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall was breached It is a day for celebrations and commemorations, for festivities and sober reflection.

Ben Vidricksen of Salina was part of an American delegation that had an up-close view of the changes.

Philip Hensher: But that was in another country... Sometimes, when I'm in Berlin, I seem to glimpse the ghost of a different city inhabiting these same streets.

Visiting leaders from across the European Union are expected to use the festivities surrounding the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall for informal talks over the appointment of the European Council president and EU foreign policy chief.

Poor Guenter Schabowski. He didn't know no better, as a friend of mine from the Ozarks used to say.

The London News.Net Monday 9th November, 2009 A wall of ice melted in London Monday as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on a pedestal in a quiet glen of trees in Warminster, Bucks County, its countenance marked with history.

When dozens of East Berliners showed up at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing on a cold and gray November evening in 1989 demanding to be let into West Berlin, Lt.

Britons banking on pre-Christmas shopping bargains should head for the former Eastern Bloc countries, it has been revealed.

Theirs was a divided city, where east was east and west was west. Then one night, the spell was broken and the world changed.

WALLS designed to keep people in or out a ' whether in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea a ' are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders' fear of continued war; Israelis' fear of terrorism; or the North Korean leadership's fear of ...

Berlin is destination of the week, and founder of easyJet Stelios gives Willie Walsh a business tip! Plenty on your minds this afternoon: Morgan trying to organise a reasonably priced trip for his brother and niece from Sydney to London because his father has a terminal illness.

"The winds of change are blowing throughout Europe - from the Atlantic to the Urals, from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean.

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.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.

On Sunday ABC Radio national broadcast the world premiere of the radio version of David Hare's Berlin , a 55-minute meditation about Germany's restored capital.

Berlin - American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a UN-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad.

Iranian demonstrators chant the slogans " Death to Obama" and " Death to US" during an anti-Israeli, anti-US and anti-British protest in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 2009.