Police in Germany have sealed off a junction near Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie after they were alerted of shots fired.

I am in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig again this week, doing a final round of edits on the first draft of my new novel before I have to submit it to my editor.

There is a long history of ‘disinformation’ between Russia and the US. This presidential campaign, heavily affected by WikiLeaks, is laden down with it, writes David Wise

WHAT do you think you ought to read in a ‘very English’ book about post-war Europe, Spies and the Cold War? 

Opening in Berlin in 1963, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (12A) pits CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) against the KGB’s Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) as Solo exfiltrates Gaby (Alicia Vikander) from East to West Berlin. 

A luxury castle hotel has made an historic new addition to its grounds — two sections of the Berlin Wall.

Just like after the Second World War, countries must co-operate, not ply their own path, writes US secretary of state John Kerry

The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, heralding the end to the Cold War between East and West, showed the world that "dreams can come true" and should inspire people trapped in tyranny everywhere, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday.

As a soldier in an army occupying West Germany, and West Berlin, I remember walking through utter devastation in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

On the eve of his 65th birthday, Iggy Pop can look back with pride on surviving his career in rock’n’roll, says Ian Forde

WHY did it take me so long to visit Berlin? The German capital had been on my list of places to see for years.

May I correct one statement in Richard Fitzpatrick’s article (Features, Feb 16) on the escape of the double-agent George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 with the collaboration of Seán Bourke and assistance from Pat Pottle, my wife Anne, and myself.

A DEFIANT and smiling Carlos the Jackal, one of the most dreaded terror masterminds of the Cold War, went on trial again yesterday — this time over four deadly attacks in France nearly three decades ago.

THE bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

The bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

IT was the revolution that ended the Cold War. But there was not a shot fired.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today crossed a former fortified border to cheers as Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.

Celebrations, remembrances and joyful exuberance enveloped Germany today, the 20th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall came down, a momentous event that helped transform Europe and signalled the beginning of the end of communism in Europe.

TWENTY years ago today, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

Twenty years ago tomorrow, they danced on top of the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

EAST GERMAN leader Erich Honecker famously proclaimed in 1989 that the Berlin Wall could remain in place for another 100 years.

THE Taoiseach was afforded a magnificent stage to wind up his political career with an address to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday. He became only the 102nd foreigner to address the two houses together.

Germany’s highest court today banned a far-right rally marking this week’s anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

DO YOU remember the phrase ‘Ich bin ein Berliner?’ Most people of my generation do because it was uttered by John F Kennedy a day or two after he completed his famous visit to Ireland in 1963.

Germany’s highest administrative court has upheld claims to real estate in Berlin by heirs of a Jewish family who lost their department store fortune under the Nazis.

ABOUT 200 desperate people pushed and fought each other for milk, bread and biscuits brought in by mule train yesterday.

Nato allies today agreed to dispatch hundreds of military engineers, medics and other troops to reinforce the earthquake relief effort in Pakistan.

Nato was today debating a plan to send hundreds of military engineers to quake-hit Pakistan, as well as medical units to set up a field hospital for the injured there.

I SHARE Rónán Mullen’s concerns (Irish Examiner, July 6) about abuses of human rights going on among certain religious minorities in Europe (though my concerns are not, as is the case with Mr Mullen, limited to the excesses of Muslims).

Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall fell, 24% of West Germans surveyed said they wanted it back, according to a poll published today.

Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense that in people’s hearts the nation has not yet fully reunited.

A German court today acquitted a jailed aide of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal of murder in a deadly series of bombings in France in the early 1980s.

LIBYA has agreed to compensate more than 160 victims of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub, making another major step toward ending its international isolation.

Jailed terrorist Carlos the Jackal has refused to provide evidence by video link to the murder trial in Germany of one of his top lieutenants.

Making his first trip to the West in 15 years, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was aiming today to improve relations with the European Union despite lingering charges of human rights abuses by his government.

Germany marked the 12th anniversary of its reunification today with festivities at Berlin’s newly restored Brandenburg Gate and pledges of friendship with the US that softened recent conflict over policy toward Iraq.

Three former East German border guards have been acquitted of shooting a 14-year-old boy as he fled across the Berlin Wall four decades ago .

President Vladimir Putin said he will "never agree to the division of the sovereignty of Russia" implied by European Union plans to impose visas on the residents of the country's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

Libya’s preliminary €2.9bn offer to families of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is not the only step needed for a lifting of sanctions against the country, the US administration has said.

Four people were jailed today for the bombing of a west Berlin disco 15 years ago in which two US soldiers and a woman were killed.

Germany is marking the 40th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall.