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European Union to back post-Brexit membership for 'united Ireland'

EU leaders are expected at a summit this weekend to back automatic membership for Northern Ireland after Brexit if it ever reunifies with Ireland, sources said on Friday.

If they said run, you ran for your life: GDR children of Namibia recount their story

Everything that happened in between is definitively part of Namibian history.

Pink Floyd to Scorpions: Encountering the Berlin Wall in pop culture

Here is a quick list of the Berlin Wall inspired music that has rocked our world:

Berlin Wall around the world: Divided wall marks a united Germany across the globe

In 1989, one evening as roars of protests in Germany that the world was witnessing, took a surprising turn. Shot for jumping the Berlin Wall, the gates had been opened as a gleeful crowd stood on the wall and asserted themselves and their right to be one. Dismantling it by hands and hammers, the crowd could be stopped at nothing.

Timeline: From division to unity, mapping the Berlin wall's fall

Thousands of illuminated balloons sailed into the night sky Sunday from the former route of the Berlin Wall, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said its fall 25 years ago proved that "dreams can come true".

Open the barrier! Meet the man who guarded the Berlin Wall and created history

The lieutenant colonel, who was also attached to the Stasi secret police, had worked for the East German border police for 28 years, and was the deputy chief at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing in the north of East Berlin.

25 years later, remembering the moment when the Berlin Wall fell to unity

Thousands of illuminated balloons sailed into the night sky Sunday from the former route of the Berlin Wall, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said its fall 25 years ago proved that "dreams can come true".

Destroyed by unwitting doping, ghosts of the past haunt ex-East German athletes

The drug boosted performance and slashed recovery times, but its side-effects were disastrous.

German intelligence agency to step up counterintelligence: Official

Germany's domestic intelligence agency is planning to expand its counterintelligence operations...

Report shows systematic doping in German sport since 1950s

The report describes West Germany as organising and experimenting with doping in sports since the 1950s, much like its East German neighbour, using sports politics and medicine to support the research.