Opinion

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

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com ACCORDING TO a new code of conduct that came into force this month, Serbia’s civil servants must get over their grumpiness, answer queries with a smile

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A MASS striptease of Austria’s national rugby team, following their 48-0 defeat in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Saturday, was filmed and uploaded onto the

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: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com INTELLIGENT SHOPPING trolleys may be the future, according to technology experts. Trolleys, which warn shoppers if they are buying too much unhealthy food or, at the