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By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com AFTER RETURNING home from a drunken night out with friends, a 53-year-old Russian man got a nasty surprise when his wife found a knife lodged in

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com AROUND 3,000 people attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys last week. The furry bride was dressed in a five-metre long

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MAN in the US was shot in the leg after a dog stepped on his gun during a pheasant hunt. The man had placed his

By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com THERE WAS one of those moments in the House of Commons a few weeks ago that will stick in the memory. Vince Cable, the acting Liberal

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MAN in northern Portugal was sent a phone bill from Portugal Telecom for the grand amount of one cent! He had to travel a total

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A SELF-professed art lover stood trial on Tuesday accused of damaging a two million dollar painting in Marseille, France, by kissing it while wearing red lipstick.

By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com IN THE beginning, around the year 2,000BC, a report of the world’s first flood was recorded on a series of clay tablets known to scholars as

By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com MORE THAN almost any other vegetable, garlic can be regarded as one of nature’s wonders. It is said to be able to inhibit and kill bacteria,

By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a free-lance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments