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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.

The country gears up to mark the day that West Germany and the communist East were re-united on October 3, 1990.

With just hours to go before polling stations across Germany open for business, President Horst Koehler has appealed to the electorate to do the right thing and turn out to vote.

Angela Merkel, German chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party, reacts after first exit polls in the German general election at party headquarters in Berlin, September 27 2009.