Skinny lizzy or fat boy slim
By: Jenny Grainer jenny@portugalresident.com THERE SEEM’S to be a great deal of concern at the moment over young girls being too thin. Fashion houses have been asked to vet their
Toxic teacher
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com TWO STUDENTS were arrested in the US last week for attempting to poison their teacher. Allegedly, they poured Febreze fabric freshener into her drink, but the
God’s plan
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com IN GENESIS, the first book of the Old Testament, Abram laments that being childless his slave, Eliezer, will be sole heir to his house. He reproaches
Shooting sun
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A JAPANESE man was so angry that a new apartment building had been constructed next to him and blocking his sunlight that he fired around 12
Bad credit
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A THIEF in Germany used his credit card to try to break into an apartment, but it snapped, leaving part of it on the inside. The
Marriage scam
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN was jailed for six months in Singapore last week for conning a man out of 45,000 US dollars to marry her. She was already
Croc shock
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com EU OFFICIALS were baffled when they stopped a Palestinian woman at the Gaza-Egypt border and discovered that she had three live crocodiles taped to her stomach.
Easy rider
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com IN HOLLAND an elderly man on his bicycle chased a shoplifter after he saw the thief being chased by workers at a supermarket. He crashed his
Fiery wine
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com PROSECUTORS CHARGED a man in California, US, with burning down a warehouse containing six million bottles of wine, worth in total between 200 and 250 million
Paper trail
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com CONSERVATIONISTS IN China are ensuring that the animal centre they work at is the most environmentally friendly by turning panda poo into paper. The idea came