When East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, it didn’t just divide streets and families - it split the very arteries of the city: its subway system. Once seamless, Berlin’s U-Bahn lines were ...

As Andrew Marr argues in the conclusion to his series about the books we (really) read, the British spy novel is much more ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

The Soviet Union spent more than 40 years trying to achieve what has just been handed to Vladimir Putin on a plate.

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The fall of Venezuela’s socialist regime marks a generational turning point akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, according to an energy expert who says the scenes unfolding there echo the ...

Iran’s Islamic regime looks to be tottering. In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to express their anger at worsening economic conditions, sparked by ...

A suspected arson attack in southwest Berlin over the weekend prompted a major power outage, with tens of thousands of households affected. The cause of the outage was identified as a fire on a cable ...

Authorities say left-wing extremists likely carried out an arson attack that has left many Berliners without power. And alcohol can be purchased more cheaply in Germany than almost anywhere else in ...

07:38, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 Updated: 07:45, Thu, Jan 1, 2026 Germany’s capital descended into chaos during New Year’s Eve celebrations, ushering in 2026, with police reporting more than 400 arrests amid ...