Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Berlin governing mayor places flowers to mark the 36th anniversary of the Berlin wall fall, at the Wall memorial on Bernauer ...

Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 1963: A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin Wall. In later years, buildings near the ...

The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...