View taken during the opening ceremony for the new US embassy building (not seen on picture) on the "Pariser Platz" next to the Brandenburg Gate (L), the Chancellery (C-L, background), the Reichstag (C-R, background) and the French embassy (R) 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 BARBARA SAX