The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago; and Alcoa High School students — who weren't even alive — have recently taken interest in its significance.

By Rebecca Johnson The Daily Barometer Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Arndt Peltner, who runs a German radio station in San Francisco called "Radio Goethe," came to OSU yesterday to describe the atmosphere in Germany at the time.

A mock wall set up by the university's German Club between East and West halls helped the campus community commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday. Members of the German Club, including seniors Carolyn Brodbeck, Sarah Tilley, Kristin Nozell, Alex Sklyar, and Tara Woods, built the wall Sunday night using steel poles, rope, and large sheets covered in spray-painted graffiti.

Audio from this event. Roundtable discussion on the Fall of the Berlin Wall and how the United States and Europe are coping with the strategic and political complexities of the post-Cold War era 20 years later.

Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Berlin.

Johannesburg — IT's a little-known fact, by which I mean it's a fact I didn't know until Sunday, that the Berlin Wall came down because of two questions at a press conference.

BERLIN — Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz was late for the swearing-in ceremony of town officials Tuesday evening at town hall. So, Town Clerk Kate Wall stepped in to do the honors.

Croydon College student Shamul Gohel may not remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, but the date will always be etched on his mind thanks to a special trip to Brussels last week.

The days of rent-free living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall may be long past, but for those seeking an upscale version of the German capital's once-vibrant squat life, look no further.

My first child, Krista, was born the night John F. Kennedy was elected president — Nov. 9, 1960. The election itself was actually Nov. 8, but returns were not final until the wee hours of the morning.Two decades later as a journalist, she spent most of the 1980s in Berlin — a city that kept Kennedy’s memory alive like no other because of his response as the barbed-wire beginnings of a wall ...