Dog hero
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A PET Chihuahua in Colorado, US, saved a baby from being attacked by a rattlesnake. The serpent went to attack the infant but the family dog
The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is in paperback at 12.50 euros. This is a searing, post-apocalyptic novel that has established itself as a modern masterpiece. A father and his son
Mobile light
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com DURING A blackout in Argentina, the light from mobile phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an appendectomy. The back-up generator failed to work after the power
Pool thieves
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A COUPLE in New York were baffled when they woke up to find that their swimming pool was missing from their back garden. They were surprised
Car crazy
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A MAN in Malaysia abandoned a Porsche he stole when it ran out of petrol but later went to the police station where it had been
Critical trifecta
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A NOT so clever man in the US got a hat trick of arrests in the space of three hours on Sunday. He was charged with
Nude cycling
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A GERMAN man and two Austrians were fined by police in Serbia for cycling naked along the banks of the River Danube during a heat wave.
Money bags
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A WEALTHY businessman from the Middle East spent more than 100,000 pounds sterling in a London nightclub, in five hours. Manager of Crystal, a nightclub favoured
The path through life
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com IT IS said that present times are a product of what has gone before, and in the here and now we are sowing seeds for the
RESIDENT COMMENT
MOTORBIKES converged in their thousands on Faro over the past weekend for the annual Bikers Convention. This was arguably one of the busiest weekends on the roads in the Algarve,