A 66-year-old German museum director has given birth to her 10th child. Alexandra Hildebrandt, the head of the private Checkpoint Charlie Museum in central Berlin, confirmed to dpa on Tuesday that her ...

Checkpoint Charlie, the former border checkpoint between East and West Berlin, is set to get a major makeover after city authorities approved a redevelopment plan following years of debate. The ...

BERLIN (dpa) – A row has broken out in Berlin over who actually owns the hundreds of Cold War artefacts housed in the famous “House at Checkpoint Charlie” museum, which every year attracts more than ...

The city of Berlin has approved a plan to transform historical landmark Checkpoint Charlie into a public square, complete with Cold War museum. During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a point ...

BERLIN -- Fifteen years after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, a museum in the German capital unveiled a rebuilt segment of the Cold War barrier Sunday, defying criticism that the structure uses a ...

Critics say Checkpoint Charlie has become a tourist trap crowded by souvenir shops, tour buses and fast-food restaurants in the 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down. Some say it has been ...

Workers on Tuesday began removing a field of crosses at Berlin’s former Checkpoint Charlie after a privately run museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people killed at the East German ...

BERLIN — For all Berlin’s attractions, it is a small, wooden shack that tops the must-see lists of many tourists here. The former guard house stands behind a row of sandbags at a busy intersection in ...

Wrecking crews have demolished a watchtower at the former Checkpoint Charlie crossing, one of the last reminders of the Berlin Wall to fall victim to developers who have remade Berlin since German ...

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Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing place that came to symbolise the Cold War has degenerated into a seedy tourist trap which uses actors posing as border guards in a failed attempt to recrea ...