Portugal

The controversial return to political life of disgraced former government minister Miguel Relvas was marked by an extraordinary scene of uncontrolled aggression last week. PSD assessor José Mendonça had just

Encouraging figures from the car sales market show that in the first two months of this year business was ‘up’ by an impressive 38.3% – with top-of-the-range cars very much

The tax authority has come up with a new scheme to encourage people into the “luxury car draw”, designed to cut-down on tax dodging. The scheme involves a special card,

Real scenes of panic played out on the IC2 near Coimbra this week. First, an articulated truck came off the road, crashing six metres down into a residential street and

Trawling the internet, a man found the motorbike stolen from him two years previously in Cascais, on sale in Setúbal. He alerted police who ended up recovering not just the

Justice Minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz has her sights firmly on the 19 crime-busting institutions empowered to tap people’s phones. The no-nonsense minister says it makes “no sense at all”

A four-engine Lockheed C-130 Hercules military plane landed on Portuguese soil in the early hours of Saturday morning bringing the first group of Syrian refugee students, in time to start

TAn 80-year-old woman was killed and another seriously injured when waves battering the coastline near Praia da Azarujinha, in São João do Estoril, whipped up to the promenade where they