In late 1989, history took a sharp, unplanned turn. By most accounts, it happened because of Guenter Schabowski. Meeting the media after weeks of pro-democracy protests, the spokesman for the ...

MILWAUKEE - It has been 50 years since the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA championship – and a local author remembers those games like it was yesterday. Rick Schabowski's love for the Bucks dates back to ...

BERLIN — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, ...

Too often, we see history as inevitable. What was had to be, the culmination of seemingly tectonic forces. We tend to forget that history is also defined by the logic of human messiness. Happenstance, ...

BERLIN — Günter-Schabowski, the former East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the border between East and West Berlin when responding to a reporter's question, ...

Günter Schabowski, a senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Nov. 1 in ...

GUNTER Schabowski, who has died aged 86, was the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall. Schabowski, a member of and spokesman for the ...

Anyone in Florida looking for tickets to Friday night's pivotal game three showdown between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Panthers could find something almost unthinkable on this side of the border: ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - It's not often that a historic announcement comes, as an afterthought, almost by accident, at the end of an otherwise stultifying tedious press conference. But that's how the ...