On a more painful note, John Rhys-Davies has been speaking about how he suffered a broken arm when a 12-foot wall fell on him during filming in Croatia.

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Another design, from Daniel Liebeskind, features a 141-metre (154-yard) long broken wall which directs the eyes of visitors towards the Tiergarten park and a monument to Goethe, so inviting them to reflect on the highs and lows of German history.

ECONOMIST: Remembrance and repentance

On the child's whim, Eve follows different licence plates, until out of the blue she is drawn by a whim of her own, a memory from childhood of a fairy-tale picture done in coloured broken glass stuck in a whitewashed wall.

ECONOMIST: Shorter fiction

Former Millwall striker Braniff could have broken the deadlock as early as the third minute when he curled a free-kick past the wall but O'Hare produced a superb save to push the ball round for a corner.

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