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Ask any visitor to Albania and they’ll tell you the same thing: It’s the warmth of the people that makes this country so memorable. And some of the best hotels in Albania present a stellar example. Yes, it has crystal-clear rivers, snow-dusted peaks, a glittering Ionian shoreline, and ancient UNESCO heritage sites galore, but it’s the Albanians and their innate kindness and hospitality that make a visit here truly special.For decades, the country was cut off completely from the outside world due to a strict communist regime. Under dictator Enver Hoxha’s iron grip, the country was in a state of…

new video loaded: Why Is Trump Threatening to Intervene In Nigeria?President Trump has threatened to send troops to Nigeria, where he says Christianity faces an “existential threat,” an accusation that Nigeria has denied. Ruth Maclean, our West Africa bureau chief, describes how the violence in Nigeria is affecting people of all religions, not only Christians.By Ruth Maclean, Katrin Bennhold, Christina Thornell, Leila Medina, Nikolay Nikolov and Stephanie SwartNovember 6, 2025

AFP via Getty ImagesBoeing will avoid a criminal charge in the US linked to two deadly 737 Max crashes, after a court granted a request from the US government to dismiss the criminal case.In his ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor said he “disagreed” that dropping the charge was in the public interest but said his concerns did not give him sufficient reason to deny the proposal. The decision marks a major win for Boeing, which had agreed to plead guilty to the charge last year after the government accused it of violating a settlement related to the crashes.The dismissal had been…

A collection of Polaroids from Hidden’s September event. Illustration: Guardian Design/Photos courtesy of Stella BareyStella Barey has an hour for lunch. At 1.30pm, she loads her banged-up Tacoma with her three Belgian malinois and drives to a secret Los Angeles hiking trail. There, she gulps down a tapioca pudding and laces up her sneakers. After checking over her shoulder for foot traffic, she pulls down her brown sweatpants and jiggles her bare ass for the camera. Then come the undies. Her coiffed landing strip hovers above the rocks as a rush of urine floods the trail. Every mile she walks,…

Jenny ReesWales health correspondentLizzie Day says it is easy to fall for the buzz around the latest treatment being talked about on TikTok or InstagramFor Lizzie Day, having Botox was as much a part of her routine as getting her morning coffee. It was only when a doctor friend raised concerns about a “fat-dissolving” treatment she was using that the 30-year-old took stock and started questioning what was going into her body. Until this point, the recruitment consultant admitted she would just “jump on the bandwagon” of the latest aesthetic treatment to be discussed on social media.Wales’ regulator Healthcare Inspectorate…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the season finale of “The Celebrity Traitors U.K.,” now streaming on BBC iPlayer. It is rare for the most popular show on television to be one of the best. It is rarer for that television show to become such a public spectacle that screenings of its finale fill out bars and clubs across the country. And it is even rarer for the tensions during those screenings, which you could cut with a knife, to be caused by the comedian Alan Carr. Yet “The Celebrity Traitors U.K.” did just that. The BBC’s first season…

With a couple weeks of NBA action under our belts, we now have a lot more information to sift through for the power rankings.

On December 19, it will pass about 270 million kilometers from Earth, almost 700 times the average distance between our planet and the moon. Astronomers believe that for a few days the most powerful telescopes will be able to observe it to better understand its composition. However, because of its distance, it will be impossible to see it with the naked eye in the sky.How You Can Follow the Trajectory of 3I/AtlasSo far, the comet has been behaving steadily, and everything indicates that this will remain the case as it passes through the solar system. That means anyone can track…

What travellers can expect from shutdown flight frustrationSpeaking to Reuters at Newark Airport, Grace Logeman from said she had driven for two hours on Thursday for a Frontier flight to Atlanta that was delayed by three hours. The delay caused her to miss a connecting flight to the Dominican Republic for her sister’s birthday.“I’m devastated,” she said while on hold with the airline’s customer service line. “As far as the ongoing shutdown… it’s hurting me. I’m the one sitting here now.”She is by no means the only person venting her frustrations right now.Here’s more about the reality on the ground…

Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.Fifty-four people were admitted to hospital, city police chief Asep Edi Suheri told a televised news conference, with the injuries ranging from minor to serious and including burns.The suspect is a 17-year-old currently in surgery, the nation’s deputy house speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad told reporters.The Jakarta Metropolitan Police continues to investigate the motive behind the incident, which occurred at around 12:15 local time (05:15 GMT) in Kelapa Gading, a district in North Jakarta.A bomb disposal team has…