Berlin returned to winning ways after reaping their first victory against Schalke since September 2006 thanks to a dominant display on home soil.
The hosts caught a better start into the match as Vladimir Darida tested Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Faehrmann with a long-range effort in the 9th minute.
Schalke gained a foothold in the game with 21 minutes into the game after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar' s header on target forced Rune Jarstein to make a diving save.
It were however the hosts, who opened the scoring just before the break as Vedad Ibisevic slotted home Genki Haraguchi' s build up play from inside the box in the 42nd minute.
Andre Breitenreiter' s men piled on the pressure after the restart and had the golden chance to restore parity through Dennis Aogo, who missed the target from promising position ten minutes into the second half.
"Hertha" punished Schalke' s wastefulness moments later as youngster Niklas Stahl had all time and space at the near post to head in Vladimir Darida' s corner-kick in the 65th minute.
The "Royal Blues" threw everything up front and got nearly caught flatfooted but Tolga Cigerci wasted two chances to clinch a higher victory.
With the result, Hertha Berlin consolidated their third place in the hunt for the UEFA Champions League berth, meanwhile fourth placed Schalke suffered the ninth loss of the season to have a four point deficit to the top three.
"Compliments to my team. We played against a top club and worked out many opportunities. It was a perfect game for us," Hertha Berlin coach Pal Dardai said.
The following fixtures are scheduled for Saturday: Monchengladbach host Frankfurt http://www.teammlbdodgersshop.com/authentic-mike-piazza-dodgers-jersey/ , last placed Hannover face Cologne, Hoffenheim encounter Wolfsburg, newly promoted Ingolstadt clash Stuttgart, newly promoted Darmstadt see Augsburg and Bremen visit front-runners Bayern Munich.
The High Elections andReferendumCommission holds a press conference in Erbil,IraqSeptember 27, 2017. (Reuters Photo)
ERBIL http://www.teammlbdodgersshop.com/authentic-maury-wills-dodgers-jersey/ , Iraq, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The electoral commission of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan announced Wednesday the final results showed 92.73 percent of voters support the independence of the Kurdish region from Iraq.
The results showed that 2.86 million voters, out of a total of 3.31 million voters who participated in the referendum, voted "yes" to independence of the Kurdish region, the commission said.
Only 7.27 percent of the voters said "no" to the independence of the Kurdish region, according to the results.
Earlier in the day, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi urged the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to cancel the results of the independence referendum before holding dialogue to resolve the crisis.
For its part, the Iraqi parliament reconfirmed its package of measures adopted on Sept. 25 against the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan over its controversial independence referendum held on Monday.
The parliament reiterated its authorization to Abadi as the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces to redeploy troops on all the disputed areas outside the Kurdish region, including Kirkuk.
The ethnic Kurds consider the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk and parts of Nineveh, Diyala and Salahudin provinces as "disputed areas" and want them to be incorporated into their Kurdish region.
This has been fiercely opposed by the Arabs, Turkmens and by the central government in Baghdad.
The parliament also demanded the federal government regain control of Kirkuk oil fields and other oil fields in the disputed areas to be run by the federal Oil Ministry.
It also voted in favor of a recommendation to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to ask other countries which have consulates in the Kurdish region to close their offices, it added.
The independence of Kurdistan is opposed not only by the Iraqi central government, but also by most other countries, because it would threaten the integrity of Iraq and undermine the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.
The U.S. has repeatedly warned the Kurds to postpone the referendum, saying such move could derail or confuse the war against IS.
LUANDA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Joao Lourenco was sworn in as Angola's new president on Tuesday, taking over from the longtime leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Lourenco, 63, and the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) became the winners of the August 23 general elections, winning 61 percent of the votes.