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Supporters at Hanover 96's stadium, mourning Robert Enke (right), Germany and Hanover's goalkeeper, who killed himself on Tuesday

Secret struggle with depression of goalkeeper driven to take his own life

International footballer was worried about losing adopted child, wife reveals

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Man guilty of stabbing 'veil martyr' to death in court

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Russian-German who hated all foreigners jailed for killing muslim woman

The memo is said to have been drafted to spare Mr Berlusconi embarrassment

Berlusconi abandons 'casting couch'

Thursday, 12 November 2009

The era of fast-tracked careers for pretty faces in Prime Minister's Silvio Berlusconi's TV empire, which led to rumours of a casting couch, could be at an end.

Police in Germany said the early indications were that Robert Enke's death was suicide

German keeper Enke dies after being hit by express train

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

German football was in shock after it was confirmed that the national team goalkeeper Robert Enke was killed in an incident at a railway level crossing yesterday.

ET phone Rome: Vatican hosts alien life study

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The Vatican has hosted a conference to study the possibility of alien life in the universe and its implication for the Catholic Church.

Fireworks light up the night sky above the Brandenburg Gate

The joy of freedom: twenty years on

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Berlin, "This is not just a day of celebration for Germany, it is a day of celebration for the whole of Europe."

Margot Honecker

Dictator's wife defiant over forced adoptions

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Margot Honecker, a Communist-era minister now living in exile in Chile, left a cruel legacy of separated families

Oxford-based 'guru' accused of torturing French aristocrats

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Arrest follows years of efforts to free family from grip of secret society

Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook page shows him breaking down the Wall

Sarkozy challenged over claims of smashing Wall

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

President Nicolas Sarkozy became embroiled in a bizarre verbal ping-pong match yesterday after he announced that he had personally helped to demolish the Berlin Wall on the first day of its fall 20 years ago.

Memories of the fall of the wall

In their own words: East Berliners on the Wall

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

The Stasi man, the spin doctor, the dissident and teenager tell of the day when the Wall came down

We know what happened in the years following the momentous events of 9 November 1989: the  birth of a new Europe. But that week,  fear mingled with hope – and The Independent's correspondents and photographers were there to capture the moment.

The Fall of the Wall: 20 Years On

Monday, 9 November 2009

We know what happened in the years following the momentous events of 9 November 1989: the birth of a new Europe. But that week, fear mingled with hope – and The Independent's correspondents and photographers were there to capture the moment. In a special report, we present the first draft of history

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