Berlin Articles

Bumping around Europe to see old-world cities, museums and the like is always fun. But sometimes I like to have a mission, a journey, even a quest to guide my travels. Ten years ago, I tried to extend a business trip to Frankfurt, Germany with a side-trip to the Aachen area to the West where my uncle Eddie was killed during World War II, and then to his grave in Belgium; I had never been. But my trip was interrupted by the terrorist attacks on 9/11 back in the U.S. On the tenth anniversary of the attacks, I decided it was time to take care of unfinished business.

First there was that crazy glass pyramid at the Louvre, and now Berlin is the latest European city to acquire its own geometric tourist attraction.

Knut the polar bear, one of the star tourist attractions in Berlin, Germany, may continue to draw visitors for decades to come if plans to stuff and display the animal at the city's Natural History Museum go forward.

A toddler was stranded alone on a train for an hour when it pulled away from a station in Germany, leaving her mother frantic on the platform last weekend.

A Russia-bound Aeroflot flight was evacuated at a Berlin airport after a bomb threat. But German officials say no bomb was found onboard, and the incident was a hoax.