Saturnalia
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Saturnalia By Lindsey Davis By contrast, the new Falco mystery is set against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule. During this Roman holiday,
Split 50-50
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com IN A bitter divorce case, a 43-year-old German man literally split his house in two, using a chainsaw. He measured out his single-storey summer house and,
The Castle in the Forest
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Castle in the Forest By Norman Mailer No career in modern American writing is at once so brilliant, varied and controversial as that of
Body snatchers
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com FOUR ARMED men stormed a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the body of a suspected gang member, who had been killed days earlier. They tied
Hamburger
By: Skip Bandele skip@portugalresident.com DWAIN CHAMBERS’ athletics career, blighted by a two-year drug ban, looks to be over. The former European 100m champion successfully completed a NFL training camp in
Peg leg
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com RESEARCHERS APPEALED to scientists all over the world to help make a prosthetic leg for a panda in northern China in order to save her sex
Pot luck
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE IN the US were baffled after a man asked for their help to break into a church in Wisconsin. They saw him trying to break
Sad bride
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in India refused to let her fiancé be cremated at the weekend – until she was married to him. He had fallen down a
Trigger happy
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com MATT ROBINSON, a 17-year-old from the US, accidentally shot himself in the heart with a nail gun – and survived. The gun slipped and his finger
A family affair
By: Caroline Cunha