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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who arrived in London from Germany on Wednesday on a two-day state visit to Britain, said his visit to Berlin and Frankfurt was very fruitful, as he had meetings with the German leaders including President Horst Koehler and Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani give a joint press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, yesterday.

Former German Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, new German Family Minister Kristina Koehler and new German Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen , from left, pose after Jung received his notice of dismissal and Koehler and von der Leyen received their documents of appointment by German President Horst Koehler in ...

Giant dominos tumble in front world leaders including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German President Horst Koehler, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Brandenburg Gate during a ceremony ...

People peer through a section of the former Berlin Wall at the wall memorial "Bernauer Strasse" in Berlin on November 9, 2009, during day-long celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Amid joyful celebrations of the 1989 end of the Berlin Wall on Monday, sombre memorial events recalled another November 9 in Germany, when the Nazis unleashed murderous violence against Jews.

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 barrier's shadow.

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

Passers-by look at painted dominos symbolizing pieces of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, 08 November 2009.

FRANKFURT: Germany, the eurozone's economic bulldozer, this week reached a critical but vaguely signalled crossroads on recovery from recession based on tax cuts.

The former leaders of the USSR, West Germany and the US met in Berlin Saturday to remember the events that lead to opening the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

Angela Merkel was today sworn in as the Chancellor of Germany for the second consecutive term at the head of a new coalition, shortly after she was re-elected to the post by lawmakers.

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union Angela Merkel poses with German President Horst Koehler after receiving her certificate of appointment at the presidential residence of Bellevue Castle in Berlin asd The German parliament formally elected Angela Merkel to a second term as chancellor, although by a smaller margin than ...

Reconstruction of some of Berlin's historic buildings that were damaged during World War II or by the Communist regime that earlier ruled East Germany, is raising troubling questions about Germany's past, and its future.

Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with German President Horst Koehler on Monday, calling for more concerted efforts to lift Chinese-German ties onto a higher level.

The German city of Leipzig has marked the beginning of mass demonstrations 20 years ago which led to the breaching of the Berlin Wall less than a month later and German unification a year later.

On October 9th 1989 some 70,000 people flocked to the former East German city demanding democracy, freedom, and an end to communist oppression.

Romanian-born German author Herta Mueller, whose works depict life under dictatorship, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Germany has celebrated the anniversary of its reunification with festivals, concerts and parades across the country.

Germany is celebrating the anniversary of its reunification with festivals, concerts and parades across the country.