German police have defused a World War Two bomb in central Berlin, after some 10,000 people were evacuated. "A short bang - there was a controlled explosion of the detonator away from the bomb ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Berliners have been given an unprecedented public holiday, to mark the end of World War Two in Europe but also liberation from Nazi rule. Not since reunification has a German city acknowledged 8 ...