Son of Portuguese involved in Spain’s agonising child rescue drama
While the world has been watching in mounting dismay at attempts to reach Julen, the Spanish tot who fell 80 metres down a narrow well 11 days ago, the son
Grandiose plans for Lisbon’s vital second airport “confused, generic and full of deficiencies”
Just as the government’s State Budget sets out ambitious transport plans – including a billion euro investment at Montijo airbase to create a much-needed overspill airport serving Lisbon – a
BPP’s guilty bankers “pay their way out of jail”
Four years since their trial started, over eight years since the banking fraud was discovered, BPP’s former top men, principally João Rendeiro, Paulo Guichard and Salvador Fezes Vital, have all
Portugal mourns
Portugal mourns More than 720 devastating wildfires in 48-hours. Forty-two deaths. Over 70 men, women and children in hospital. Hundreds of dead animals in burnt-out byres, fields and forests.
Thirteen dead as massive oak tree crashes onto religious festival in Madeira
Thirteen people – among them foreign holidaymakers and one child – were killed on Tuesday as a massive oak tree crashed down onto festival goers at one of Madeira’s most
A nation mourns as fires continue
Saturday June 17 will go down as the day everything collapsed: 64 people burned to death in indescribable agony, or asphyxiated in stultifying heat by thick smoke. Over 160 injured.
Duarte Lima “will be tried for murder in Portugal”
On Interpol’s most-wanted list and remaining in Portugal to avoid arrest, former PSD MP and convicted felon Duarte Lima has heard that the murder trial he has been evading for
Outrage over jailing of Portuguese woman who called judges “gangs of organised criminals”
It is a case that goes back 16 years and which is causing a wave of outrage on social media. Fifty-year-old Maria de Lurdes Lopes Rodrigues entered Tires jail
New era of hope for PortugalÂ
He’s funny, self-deprecating, hyperactive, a notorious hypochondriac and a darling of the people. Even before he was elected in January, 67-year-old university professor, former PSD minister and journalist Marcelo Rebelo
Oil concessions “free for all”
In a week when national media declares Portugal is “back on the oil exploration map”, the government has signed concessions that see almost every borough in the Algarve ring-fenced for