Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.

The building had once been the seat of the German government (and is again today) but in the late 1980s had stood largely unused since World War II due to its proximity to the Berlin Wall looming ...

So much so that the incoming government, with about 60 percent pro-crypto members, might consider bitcoin as a solution to a $35 trillion national debt crisis. From President-elect Donald Trump ...

In the wake of the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border ... Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km of walls and fences either built or under construction ...

Cascade Heights has been known as a home to Black prominence and power in Atlanta. Several notable politicians, sports figures and celebrities have settled in there, but only in recent history.

European leaders on Thursday expressed optimism that the German government crisis will be resolved quickly ... the collapse ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...