Opinion

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

A 55 kilogramme black bear in Vermont, US, is back in the woods after getting its head stuck in a milk can. It took a state biologist, fire fighters and

Venezuelan police have arrested a man and woman accused of impersonating plastic surgeons and providing women with silicone breast and buttock implants from an illegal clinic in an apartment. Cosmetic

A survey conducted by US-based firm VIP Communications Inc showed that 51 per cent of respondents of the tongue-in-cheek survey of 20,000 people, who live in North America but hail

A few hundred warehouse workers and drivers at Danish brewer Carlsberg halted work to protest against a company decision to limit beer drinking at work to lunch breaks. The strike

A man in Sweden called emergency services, saying he felt psychologically unstable and wanted to commit suicide. He was forwarded to the duty Church of Sweden pastor. About five minutes