Opinion

Assistants to President Barack Obama have been complaining about the President’s behaviour during meetings.  Speaking on condition of anonymity, several high-level staffers have said that the President has seemed distracted

A string of nurseries have banned children from having sweets or cake to celebrate birthdays under a new healthy eating initiative. The Pre-School Nutrition Project, which was set up by

To most people, 35,000 tonnes of sand would simply be a beach. However, to more than 45 talented artists led by Alper Alagoz, this mountain of sand is used to

Just five minutes alone with an attractive female raises the levels of cortisol, the body’s stress hormone, according to a study from the University of Valencia in Spain. The effects

by Mike Johnson features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments

By BARRIE MAHONEY features@algarveresident.com Barrie Mahoney was a teacher, headteacher and school inspector in the UK, as well as a reporter in Spain, before moving to the Canary Islands as

German police are investigating a man for theft after he siphoned electricity off a high-voltage overhead transmission line for one month with the help of an ordinary meat hook. The

German police confirmed that a couple of hungry pigs digging for food came nose-to-nose with a long-buried World War II anti-tank weapon. Police said the two pigs found the single-shot