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I met Angelika Wachs for only a few minutes of my life. But what moments they were.

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

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.

November 09, 2009 7:48 pm ET - 10 Comments Members of the conservative media, including Fox News, are attacking President Obama for not attending the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. The East German nation, for 28 years hidden from the world's eyes behind almost impassable walls, suddenly opened up.

But of all the beats in all the world, wouldn't it make just as much sense for us to embrace the rhythms of East as well as West? But unfortunately, even in a town as wildly diverse as Miami, that kind of collision of cultures is damn hard to come by.

Reuters, Berlin US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a U.N.-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad.

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

Day OneI'll leave Guatemala in a few hours, via the Pan American Highway by bus and head for San Salvador, the capital.and it rocks.

BBC readers in El Salvador describe their experiences of the devastating floods and landslides, which have killed at least 130 people and have left about 7,000 living in shelters.

The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador caused by Hurricane Ida has risen to 124.

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 ...

Three Americans taken into custody near the border with Iraq on July 31 are facing spying charges, Iran's judiciary said yesterday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for their release.

Berlin warmed up Sunday for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall with celebrations throughout the city, as crowds gathered to relive the ecstatic scenes that heralded the demise of European communism.

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.

German leaders have gathered at a church in the former East Berlin for a prayer service marking the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall was opened.

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 he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

Workers on Sunday walk along a street that was damaged by heavy rain in San Martin, on the outskirts of the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador.

This Nov. 11, 1989 file photo shows East German border guards standing on top of the Berlin wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, background, after they removed Berliners from the wall.

THE elderly lady with her shopping bag stood and stared at the armed policeman politely but firmly preventing her from crossing the 8ft-high barrier built across the street.