Sarkozy hit by Berlin Wall fantasy and more nepotism

Claim he helped chip away the Wall ridiculed as nepotism claims return

Fall of the Wall: 20 years on

Berliners brave the rain to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Day the Wall came down: History, what history?

For a German teenager, it did not feel like a momentous event. For his mother, it was

Fall of the Wall: my school trip

The photographs of an 18-year-old schoolboy who witnessed the end of the Wall

MTV Europe Music Awards

In pictures: MTV marks 20 years since fall of the Berlin Wall

Anger as new Berlin wall erected around ‘free’ U2 gig

MTV fails to see irony of erecting a wall around gig marking fall of the Wall

Picture Past: August 13, 1961, Berlin Wall

1961: West Berliners (right) watch construction workers erect the Berlin Wall

Picture Past: June 24, 1948, Berlin Airlift

1948: The Berlin Airlift began after Communist forces cut off the city.

Did Bowie bring down the Berlin Wall?

The British rock star spent three years in the city and may have helped stir opposition to the wall