Soviet soldiers and chunks of the Wall: NFL’s first visit to Berlin came as the Cold War ended

The LA Rams and Kansas City Chiefs’ game in Berlin in the shadow of the Cold War remains one of the strangest and most ...
CNN

Medieval tower partially collapses in Rome, badly injuring one worker and trapping another

A medieval tower in the heart of Italy’s capital, near the famous Roman Forum ruins, partially collapsed on Monday during renovations of the structure, critically injuring one worker and trapping ...
Artnet News

Friedrich Kunath on the Futility of Painting: ‘When You Deal With Beauty, You Can Only Lose’

The German artist Friedrich Kunath paints pretty sunsets that are both earnest and ironic in equal proportion.
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From D-Day to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Events That Changed History

What do July 20, 1969, November 9, 1989, and October 29, 1929 have in common? Each changed the world forever. These are the ...
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The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall in pictures

This first bricks of the Berlin Wall were laid just over 60 years ago. We then had to wait 28 years, an eternity for many ...
Wall Street Journal

How Jefferies Found Itself at the Center of First Brands’ Collapse

The sudden collapse of auto-parts giant First Brands Group has left Wall Street firms sorting through the wreckage. Few are facing more questions than Jefferies Financial Group JEF-0.40%decrease; red ...
WPLG

Construction worker injured after wall collapses in South Miami, fire rescue says

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A man was injured on Wednesday afternoon at a two-story building in South Miami, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel. The man was working on construction when there ...
Stars and Stripes

Pyongyang building ‘Korean Berlin Wall’ along DMZ, warns lawmaker in Seoul

Satellite images obtained by a South Korean lawmaker show that the North is constructing a roughly 6-mile-long anti-tank barrier resembling the Cold War-era Berlin Wall, a lawmaker in Seoul said this ...
NBC New York

Partial parking garage collapse leaves hundreds of NY drivers without cars

A 15-story parking garage in Westchester County partially collapsed on Wednesday, damaging a number of cars parked on the floors below — and leaving scores of people searching for other ways to get ...
Wall Street Journal

Behind the Collapse of an Auto-Parts Giant: $2 Billion Hole and Mysterious CEO

Patrick James was watching the film “Minari” about a family of South Korean immigrants who moved in the 1980s to rural Arkansas when he leaned over to his son and whispered: “This is what it felt like ...
The Hill

$4.5B in border wall contracts awarded: DHS, CBP

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that $4.5 billion had been awarded to 10 new construction projects along the southwest border. The ...
Bloomberg L.P.

First Brands Collapse Blindsides Wall Street, Exposing Cracks in a Hot Corner of Finance

In hindsight, the telltale signs of trouble were piling up: the Zoom calls where the owner kept his camera off; the angry pushback from his brother when investors asked for invoices to back up their ...