A German Communist Party leader, Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was instrumental in establishing a Communist government in East Germany after World War II (East Germany was reunited with West Germany in 1990). He became general secretary of the Communist...

The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.The Ostel offers a renewed...

When communist East Germany collapsed in 1989, Berliners were eager to tear down its most detested symbol _ the Berlin Wall that divided their city during the Cold War.Seventeen years later, city officials and artists are arguing about how to do the exact opposite _...

A priceless manuscript at a Polish library shows how Mozart wrote down his Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major _ neat, small notes, no corrections.Its neighbor in the collection, Beethoven's original copy of the third movement of his Symphony No. 8, bears witness to...

Today is Friday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2007. There are 115 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on Sept. 7, 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out on its maiden voyage, from Liverpool, England, to New York,...