Festive balloons attached to a lamp post blow in the wind in front of the Brandenburg Gate's quadriga during a ceremony to inaugurate the new US embassy building 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 JOHN MACDOUGALL