Tirana is becoming an unlikely hotspot for offbeat architecture as politicians court high-profile foreign architects to transform the Albanian capital into a "world city". Starr Charles reports.

A father's pain and indignation. The ban was triggered by the death of another 14-year-old boy named Martin, who was stabbed by a fellow pupil at his school in Tirana last November after an ...

By bne IntelliNews Leaders from across the continent gathered in Tirana on May 16 for the sixth European Political Community (EPC) summit, as Albania took centre stage in a high-level forum ...

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi ...

His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, ...