Opinion

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A BILL has been passed in the Florida Senate that means public school children could be suspended if their trousers are too low. Florida could join

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A GROUP of chocolate lovers, in Israel, managed to steal nearly 100 tons of chocolate spread from a warehouse in the northern city of Haifa. Police

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A MEDICAL student in Germany got some practical experience when she saved a baby tiger from choking at a zoo in Halle. The cub ate a

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A DONKEY in southern Mexico has been arrested for assault and battery after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas. The victims

By: SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 22 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for The Resident’s fashion

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A FIREMAN in Japan has lost his job after it transpired he had been driving ambulances and fire engines for the past 20 years without a

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A BRAZILIAN model is having nylon wires implanted in her eyes to give them an oriental slant ahead of her performance in Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival

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