The Berlin Wall split the city from 1961 to 1989.
German President Christian Wulff has vowed to focus on the hot button issue of integration of immigrants. And the president made good on that pledge in his speech marking German Unity Day, DW's Volker Wagener says.
In the grand scheme of history, 20 years are a nanosecond. Deutsche Welle's Marc Koch stresses how far reunified Germany has come in such a short time - despite errors and challenges along the way .
The sports doping program carried out by the former East Germany may be decades in the past, but many one-time athletes still carry the scars - physical and mental - from that time.
Eastern Germany is rich in historical urban centers, and in the last 20 years, a lot of money has been invested in their restoration. Torgau is one place that has benefited, but the city also faces new challenges.
Thousands of Italians were spending a second night in shelters, including cars and tent cities, throughout northeast Italy owing to a strong earthquake that killed six and caused massive damage in the region.
Sailing, swimming and cycling while admiring the Alps in the distance, or checking out the historic locations along the water's edge: Lake Constance has it all.
The combat mission in Afghanistan will end in mid-2013 and the deployment by the end of 2014. That was the decision of the NATO summit in Chicago.
As the NATO summit began, Secretary General Rasmussen pledged solidarity in the alliance. But France's new president Francois Hollande isn't playing ball.
Uhuru Kenyatta now has his own political party, but any ambition to become president like his father before him could be thwarted by a trial at the International Criminal Court.
People in the eurozone have had enough of austerity. The new French president's talk of growth is music to their ears. But the question is: How do you create growth without going into debt?
