Thousands of protesters have hit the streets of the Albanian capital Tirana to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Some of them broke through a police cordon by throwing petrol bombs and flares. They then began trying to smash down the doors of the building housing Rama’s office. Several windows were smashed and […]
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The zoo from hell: Lion with an agonising infected eye languishes in dirty cramped cage along with zebras and wolves in Albania
The zoo from hell: Lion with an agonising infected eye languishes in dirty cramped cage along with zebras and wolves in Albania Several animals appear malnourished and mistreated at Safari Park Zoo in Fier, Albania Photographs taken by activists show a lion with an eye injury living in a cramped cage The private zoo is […]
Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image
A 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole. Katie Bouman led development of a computer program that made the breakthrough image possible. The remarkable photo, showing a halo of dust and gas 500 million trillion km from Earth, was released on […]
US war veteran makes living from Facebook CEO Zuckerberg’s trash
The U.S. is home to seven of the top 10 richest people in the world – including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg – according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. But it’s also home to over 550,000 homeless people, including trash pickers like Jake Orta. Orta lives three blocks from Zuckerberg’s $10 million home in San Francisco, and […]
Albania airport heist: armed robbers steal €2.5m from Austrian Airlines plane
Albanian police have arrested four people and questioned 40 others after armed robbers stole millions of euros from an Austria Airlines aeroplane in a deadly heist. Armed men broke onto the runway of Tirana airport on Tuesday and stole the money due to be transported to a bank in Vienna, police said. Foreign banks operating […]