Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 25 July 2014

SPIEGEL ONLINEINTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER 

Compiled on July 25, 2014, 04:23 PM CET

THE MUSLIMS OF TROMSØ

Ramadan in the Land of the Midnight Sun

During Ramadan, Muslims fast until the sun goes down. But what if you live in a place where there is no sunset? The believers in Tromsø, Norway spent years searching for a solution to that conundrum. Now that they have found one, new problems have arisen.

RESURRECTING KÖNIGSBERG

Russian City Looks to German Roots

The Allies bombed the Prussian city of Königsberg into the ground in 1944. Residents of what is today the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, a desolate Soviet landscape, are considering rebuilding the city center to reflect some of its historical German architecture.