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Albania: fears grow over environmental impact of new airport

A new airport and new routes may take pressure off creaking buses but at what cost to a valuable wetland for flamingos and other birds? Black smoke billows from the front of the bus. With no air-conditioning besides the sympathetic wafting of a folded map from another passenger, Im five hours into a bus

How can you be LGBTQ+ at an evangelical university? In secret

Students at Liberty University have to sign an honor code, which describes accepted and forbidden behavior and LGBTQ students fear they have to remain in the shadows to graduate It took one weekend to leave Tessa Russell truly exposed.

Orthodox Jewish drag queens: joyfully putting the sin in synagogue

They identify with a religion that tells them their sexuality and their lifestyle are forbidden, but these men base much of their drag personas on their Jewish roots. Still, reconciling these two halves of themselves is an ongoing struggle

Paul Walker memorial - in pictures | Film

Paul Walker dies in California car crash Mon 9 Dec 2013 12.09EST First published on Mon 9 Dec 2013 12.09EST Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

Robert Loggia obituary | Film

Although the supporting actor Robert Loggia, who has died aged 85 after suffering from Alzheimers, played more than 200 roles in films, on TV and on stage in a career lasting more than six decades, he will be remembered, above all, for his portrayals of tough and gruff mafia bosses and assorted gangsters, mostly Italian