BERLIN, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The city of Berlin has announced a competition to design a memorial honoring a carpenter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

BERLIN, July 14 (UPI) -- Not everyone wants presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to speak in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Even the Obama team now seems ready to change plans after a dispute inside the German government began to damage the senator's campaign.

BERLIN, July 12 (UPI) -- The German government says it is not being pressured by the White House to keep U.S. Sen. Barack Obama from speaking at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate.

BERLIN, July 10 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama has planned a campaign stop in Europe and wants to speak in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. Some German officials are not too excited, given the security challenges such an event would pose.

BERLIN, April 27 (UPI) -- A referendum aimed at saving Tempelhof Airport, which played a key role in the Berlin Airlift in 1948, failed Sunday because of low turnout, officials said.

BERLIN, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Forty-six years ago on Monday, East German soldiers began building the Berlin Wall that would part a city in two and become the symbol of the Cold War. The wall's anniversary coincides with new revelations over ordered killings and spy missions of the Communist regime's secret police.

BERLIN, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The groundbreaking ceremony for the Berlin Brandenburg International airport has taken place amid controversy and after years of delay.

BERLIN, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- German officials marked the 45th anniversary Sunday of the beginning of construction on the Berlin Wall.

BERLIN, July 14 (UPI) -- Germany's top World Cup official, Juergen Kiessling, has died, four days after reportedly shooting himself in the head, says the BBC.