Former U.S. President George Bush (L), US ambassador to Germany William Timken (R) and his wife Sue (C) cut a ribbon in front of the new US embassy building during its opening ceremony in Berlin on July 4, 2008. Former president George H.W. Bush, who was in the White House when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, cut a ribbon at the embassy that was rebuilt in the former no man's land that divided Berlin during the communist era. AFP PHOTO DDP/POOL/ TOBIAS SCHWARZ GERMANY OUT