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This November marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Washington Post Editor Marc Fisher, who served as The Post's Berlin correspondent in 1989, remembers the jubilation on the streets and reflects on the lasting legacy of the fall of the wall.
PHOTOS
This week's events from around the world, including Russia, Greece, Indonesia and Ukraine, captured in photographs.
PHOTOS
As Afghanistan prepares for a second round of voting in the presidential election, the country braces for increased attacks by militants aimed at disrupting the poll scheduled for Nov. 7.
PHOTOS
Attack early Wednesday in a crowded market, the deadliest in Pakistan this year, comes as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits the country and vows to continue fighting militants.
PHOTOS
This week's events from around the world, including Russia, Greece, Indonesia and Ukraine, captured in photographs.
PHOTOS
Twin car bombs targeted two government buildings in Iraq's capital city, wrecking pillars of the state's authority, in one of the worst attacks in Baghdad.
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Thousands of organized rallies in more than 150 nations called for gloabl policymakers to make cutting carbon emissions down to a level of 350 parts per million a priority, 50 days prior to the United Nations conference on climate change.
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The Afghan district of Nawa, where the number of U.S. troops has gone from about 100 to 1,100, offers a ground-level perspective into the debate over U.S. force levels and counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
AUDIO GALLERY
President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
PHOTOS
This week's events from around the world, including Germany, Indonesia and Guinea, captured in photographs.
PHOTOS
The shifting economics of the marijuana trade suggests that new market forces, as much as law enforcement, can exact a heavy price on Mexico's drug cartels.
PHOTOS
A tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean near the island of Samoa sent people fleeing to higher ground to escape rapidly rising waters. About 100 people were killed and dozens remain missing after the massive waves landed.
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The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the Communist takeover of China. Preparations for a parade on Oct. 1 that is to be a display of China's growing political and military strength have consumed the country's top leadership.
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Hundreds of people are dead after flooding in the northern Philippines set off by Tropical Storm Ketsana, and thousands of people were left without drinking water, food and power.
PHOTOS
This week's events from around the world, including Germany, Afghanistan, Australia, Spain and Kenya, captured in photographs.
Mexico at War
Washington Post video-journalist Travis Fox documents the growing war between Mexico's government and its violent drug cartels in transforming Mexican society and life along the embattled U.S. border
Washington Post video-journalist Travis Fox documents the growing war between Mexico's government and its violent drug cartels in transforming Mexican society and life along the embattled U.S. border
TimeSpace: World
TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe.
TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe.
Worth the Risk
A U.S. Army Captain's Gamble on Reconciling With the Enemy
A U.S. Army Captain's Gamble on Reconciling With the Enemy
A Mother's Risk
In Sierra Leone, one in 8 women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
In Sierra Leone, one in 8 women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
Earthquake in China
On May 12th, a 7.9-magnitude quake killed 70,000 people in China's Sichuan province. washingtonpost.com videojournalist Travis Fox was on assigment in China at the time and was among the first Western journalists to reach the earthquake zone, where he filed daily panoramas and video dispatches.
On May 12th, a 7.9-magnitude quake killed 70,000 people in China's Sichuan province. washingtonpost.com videojournalist Travis Fox was on assigment in China at the time and was among the first Western journalists to reach the earthquake zone, where he filed daily panoramas and video dispatches.
MULTIMEDIA: As China's capital takes on a modern look, current and former residents
sense a new dynamism -- and new tensions -- in the old city. This series of intimate reports looks at the challenges and choices faced by Beijing's ordinary people... Some who left. And Some who stayed.
The Frontline of Mexico's AIDS War
Angel Cabrera, a former drug addict, patrols Tijuana in search of drug users and commercial sex workers, providing them with condoms and clean needles in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS in one of the busiest land border crossings in the world.
Angel Cabrera, a former drug addict, patrols Tijuana in search of drug users and commercial sex workers, providing them with condoms and clean needles in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS in one of the busiest land border crossings in the world.
Seeds of Peace
Two decades into Uganda's civil war, peace seems to be within reach. But the country's displaced people must still travel a long road to recovery.
Two decades into Uganda's civil war, peace seems to be within reach. But the country's displaced people must still travel a long road to recovery.
A selection of the best images by Post photographers this year.
Featuring the best work by multimedia journalists and interactive designers at washingtonpost.com.
Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.
The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.
In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.