News Source: National Public Radio
| 23 days ago
November 8, 2009 November 8, 2009 Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the streets that November night in 1989, Germans celebrated the demise of the barrier, but had no way of knowing what political and cultural...
News Source: Associated Press
| 23 days ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to action against new global threats. On the eve of celebrations marking 20 years since the collapse of...
News Source: Times Online
| 23 days ago
More than a hundred thousand mainly young people have flown to the German capital to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the hacking down of the Berlin Wall. The revellers will be joined during today’s festivities by 31 heads of state and government,...
News Source: Novinite
| 23 days ago
Something equally unthinkable occurred a day later in Bulgaria, when Communist dictator Todor Zhivkov stepped down after a reign of more than three decades. That stunning development surprised even the most hopeful opponents of the regime, including...
News Source: Novinite
| 23 days ago
Thousands of curious Berliners in the center of the German capital have been sizing up over 1,000 giant dominos set to topple on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall...Berlin Wall in the area around the Brandenburg Gate...
News Source: Sify News
| 23 days ago
The German parliament Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, commemorating the efforts of European civil rights activists which helped end the divide between East and West in Germany and Europe. 'The people east of the...