| SPIEGEL ONLINE | INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER |
| Compiled on April 25, 2014, 05:17 PM CET |
| THE DOWNFALL OF ROME Can a New Mayor Stop the City's Decline? Pilgrims from around the world are expected in Rome this weekend for the canonization of two former popes. They will find an Italian capital that is increasingly squalid and close to bankruptcy. The city's new mayor is hoping he can turn it around. |
| DANCING AT THE ABYSS What Beirut's Debutante Ball Says about Lebanon Car bombs are a fact of life and the civil war in neighboring Syria continues to flood Lebanon with refugees. Nevertheless, the Debutante Ball in Beirut takes place every year. Wealthy Lebanese families from across the globe send their daughters to waltz on the brink. |
| A REVOLUTION IN KILLING The Technological Innovations of WWI A new era in warfare was born on the battlefields of Flanders in 1915. German troops launched a chlorine gas attack in the first ever large-scale use of chemical weapons. It was but one of the technical innovations seen during World War I, and not all of them were as deadly. |
