LLM contributor Shekha Vyas immerses herself in the unique energy of the bustling city of Tirana,which is gaining a ...

When police attacked the first demonstrations against Albania’s repressive communist regime in April 1991, four students were ...

Albania was once a socialist backwater with just 1,265 cars in the whole country. And though living standards have improved considerably since that time, it’s failure to transform into a true market ...

A map of Albania, the face of the country's national hero and a house-covered facade are among the defining features of these eight skyscrapers currently under development in Tirana. Tirana is ...

During the Cold War, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha scattered a colony of 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country. This is ...

Remember when you could pick up a flight for £1.99? That was back in the Noughties' boom years as budget airlines established ...

Although approving the credentials, the Assembly suspended a number of rights of members the Georgian delegation “as a clear ...

Once known as "the North Korea of Europe", Albania is turning to its millennia-old sites and rich cultural heritage to recast ...

During one of my first weekends in Tirana, the capital of Albania ... as well as the Et'hem Bey Mosque in Skanderbeg Square. While he explained the significance of various main streets in the ...

In the nation's capital, Tirana, located 278km (173 miles) to the north, many Hoxha-era monuments have been torn down to make way for new community spaces. Skanderbeg Square, for example ...

Other projects set to be completed in Tirana include a mixed-use high-rise composed of house-shaped "puzzle pieces" and a kinked skyscraper intended to evoke "the grace of ballet". Sent on ...