We need to change the minds of Americans, not change the laws. Will bomb control be next on the ballot? Attacks like the Boston Bombing and the Texas college stabbing attack prove we need to change our way of thinking.

Oz The Great and Powerful has taken over box offices around the globe by storm. But after the transformations am I the only one thinking what's with Mila Kunis's makeup?

Tirana - The latest round of international footballing qualifiers are around the corner, with some unexpected quarters set to benefit.

In Albania, the Kanun, a centuries-old code of conduct still regulating many aspects of life in rural areas, especially the mountainous north, requires that killings be avenged with blood.

Tirana - Albania's bid to become a member state of the European Union has suffered a third postponement. The Balkan country must deliver a number of substantive reforms to comply with the criteria needed to become a full member state.

Tirana - Remarks made by the prime minister of Albania on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Albanian independence from Ottoman rule, have soured diplomatic ties with Greece.

Tirana - The remains of Europe’s strangest monarch, King Zog I of Albania, were exhumed in France and repatriated to Albania on Thursday last week.

A day after President Barack Obama was re-elected, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman announced that the U.S. Secretary of State will step down from her current role soon after the President’s second inauguration in January 2013.

Tirana - A vast array of ugly Igloo-shaped concrete bunkers litter Albania, a constant reminder of former Communist dictator Enver Hoxha's paranoia. A joint German-Albanian tourism project plans to put beds in the bunkers to transform them into tourist hostels.

NATO is taking some heat from various US commentators and a new report which has essentially identified Germany as the nation that needs to do more. The commentary is “robust”. A new report is hitting some nerves, and some would say the wrong ones.

Serbian claims that the Kosovo Liberation Army dealt in the organ trafficking of Serbian prisoners in Albania are to be investigated inside Albania by the EULEX special prosecutor. The Albanian government today approved a law allowing the investigation.

Tirana - An Egyptian citizen is being refused the right to return home to Egypt by the Albanian authorities. After being held in Guantanamo prison for eight years, although innocent, he was sent to Albania on his release.

Tirana - As Albanian gay rights activists announced plans to hold the nation's first ever gay pride parade in May. An Albanian minister said activists should be beaten with truncheons, if the event goes ahead.

Once the butt of many jokes, Albania is emerging as one of Europe's hottest new destinations, and its ambassadors are taking the message from Tel Aviv to Berlin. Digital Journal caught up with one of them in Montenegro.

Albania's Central Bank announces a sharp increase in residential housing prices in the latest piece of good news from the former Communist country.

Saint Petersburg - A bill to impose a fine on anyone promoting "homosexual propaganda" was approved earlier this month in the first reading of Parliament in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Some NGOs genuinely contribute to enhancing welfare, to the mitigation of hunger, the furtherance of human and civil rights, or the curbing of disease. Others are ideologically biased, religiously-committed and, often, at the service of special interests.

The Czech Republic has issued licenses to export shackles, electric shock weapons and chemical sprays to 6 countries whose police and security forces are known offenders against human rights and have made use of precisely such items to torture detainees.

The incidence of higher education and skills is greater among Muslim immigrants than in the general population. Europe attracts the best and the brightest away from their destitute, politically dysfunctional and backward homelands.

The Albanians in Macedonia are economically better off than their kith and kin anywhere else in the Balkan. This, they claim, is no thanks to the state. Official unemployment amongst the young is intolerably high.