Boarding Area

It sounds like something out of Twilight Zone, and it definitely belongs in the "life is stranger than fiction" department. For the last four months, a young Palestinian man has been living in Kazakhstan's Almaty International airport, closely guarded and unable to leave. A refugee, he was born in Iraq, but his parents died when he was 16 and he has no siblings. He has no visa, either, so he can't enter Kazakhstan, and Israel won't let him into the Palestinian territories. The U.N. has decided he wouldn't be safe in Iraq. So, there he is, subsisting on airplane food and Skyping with a cousin in Norway whenever the airport's sketchy Internet connection fires up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23350294