World leaders have been speaking in Berlin at special (ceremonies) to mark the 20th anniversary of the (Fall of the Berlin Wall), which changed the political face of Europe. After a day of celebrations attended by tens of thousands of people, the leaders met at the Brandenburg Gate in the centre of the city. In a video message from Washington, President Obama said the people of Berlin and Germany had delivered their own (rebuke) to (tyranny) and (oppression) and had struck out for their freedom. Let us never forget November 9th, 1989, nor the sacrifices that made it possible. Let us (sustain) the friendship across the Atlantic that must never be broken and together, let us keep the light of freedom burning bright for all who live in the darkness of (tyranny) and believe in the hope for a brighter day. Thank you. President Medvedev of Russia said the fall of the wall had told the Russian and Germany put their (enmity) behind them. And chancellor Angela Merkel, who was brought up in East Germany, said the night the wall came down was a (fulfillment of a dream). After the speeches, Berliners \ (toppled) a chain of giant dominoes along the path of the wall which once divided the city. The European (naval force) patrolling off the Horn of Africa says (Somali pirates) had launched their longest range attack (to date), nearly 2000kms east of the capital, Mogadishu. Nick Childs reports. The international naval forces patrolling off the Horn of Africa will have mixed feelings about this new record and welcome in some ways perhaps( inevitable) but also their argue a new sign of the success they believe they are having in forcing pirates further out to sea. According to the EU naval force, the Hong Kong registered (oil tanker) BW Lion was attacked by two fast skiffs firing automatic weapons and rocket propelled (grenades). The tanker apparently managed to (evade) the attacks and there're being no reported casualties. Five months after (general elections), Lebanon finally has a new government. President Michelle Suleiman has announced the formation of the national unity cabinet after being given a list of ministers by the Prime Minister designated Saad al-Hariri who reached the deal with the Hezbollah-led opposition on Friday. Our Beirut correspondent, Natalia Antelava reports. According to the new power-sharing (formula), Saad al-Hariri who leads the US-backed (coalition ) will have 15 ministries in the new government. The opposition led by Hezbollah and backed by Iran and Syria now has 10 ministerial seats and the remaining five posts are named by the president. Those five seats could (make a real difference). Because it’s the first time in Lebanon’s recent history, that neither of the country’s two main rivals will have the (veto) power and many here welcome the news that president Suleiman who’s seen as more of a neutral figure will play a role of an (arbiter). World News from the BBC. A powerful (hurricane) that’s wrecked havoc across Central America has now been (downgraded). Hurricane Ida is now a (tropical storm) that’s (heading for) the US mainland. Despite being downgraded, residents along America’s Gulf Coast have been warned to (prepare for the worst). And in El Salvador, a major search (rescue) efforts continues. Our Miami correspondent, Andy Gallagher reports. It may no longer be a hurricane but tropical storm Ida still (poses a serious threat to) America’s Gulf Coast. Schools in the far west of Florida have been closed as residents were advised to seek shelter. The storm is still sustaining winds of 110kms an hour, making the threat of title surges very real. Earlier a heavy rain caused in part by hurricane Ida (triggered floods and mudslides) in El Salvador that killed more than 120 people, the areas around El Salvador’s capital of the central province of San Vicente were hit hardest. South Africa’s plans for football’s World Cup next year had been dealt a blow with the suggestion that the planned high-speed rail link between the Johannesburg airport and the city’s commercial center may not be ready in time. The spokeswoman for the rail link Gautrain told the BBC that the three-and-half billion dollars project will not now be operational until at least 2 weeks after the tournaments start in June. Her remarks followed the government’s (refusal) to pay the contractors an additional 180 million dollars which they’d demanded to (speed up) work. Rescue workers in the Canadian Arctic say they’ve saved a teenage hunter who’d been adrifted over night on a small (ice floe), having (apparently) fought off a polar bear. A search crew who found the 17-year-old Inuit youth from a floe measuring only 15 meters across, report that he’d shot and killed a mother bear (orphaning) her two cubs. The teenage had been on a hunting expedition with an older man in a territory of Nunavut when their snow mobile broke down.