Tragedy at sea: 75-year-old dies attempting new world rowing record — UPDATED
A 75-year-old French adventurer who set out to row across the Atlantic single-handed by way of a “laugh at old age” is missing presumed dead after his upturned craft was
Child pornography: PJ police arrest 15 men in countrywide crackdown on online paedophiles
PJ police have announced 15 arrests in a countrywide crackdown on online paedophiles. The detained men – all due to face magistrates for the application of bail terms – fall
Horror in Azores as woman hacked to death with machete
A 39-year-old man is in police custody today after he allegedly hacked a woman to death in her car, “believing the victim used techniques of witchcraft to prejudice him”. A
Elderly woman in Azores dies of Covid after receiving second dose of vaccine
An 86-year-old woman has died in the Azores less than 14-days after receiving the second dose of vaccine against Covid-19. According to regional health authorities, her death can be explained
Portugal’s Rt ‘falls’ along with ‘incidence’ rating – but Germany red-lists Algarve and Azores
On a day when only four people have died with Covid-19 and the active case count has fallen along with Portugal’s Rt number and incidence rating, Germany has announced that
Hilton plans to open three new hotels in Portugal
Hotel chain Hilton is opening three new hotels in Portugal, Expresso reported on Sunday. Hilton is opening hotels in Cascais, a popular beach town near Lisbon, in the Azores islands
Panic in Azores as seven strippers test positive for virus
Seven strippers have tested positive for Covid-19 at a ‘gentlemen’s club’ in the Azores. The resulting fall-out has created ‘panic’, reports tabloid Correio da Manhã. Already ‘hundreds of tests have
Right-wing Chega poised to tip teetering Socialist ‘balance’ in Azores
Right-wing party Chega is poised to tip the teetering Socialist balance in the Azores. After 24 years in which PS Socialists have run the regional government, plans are afoot to
PS Socialists lose absolute majority in Azores elections
For the first time in 20 years PS Socialists have lost their ‘absolute majority’ in the autonomous region of the Azores. Legislative elections which took place last Sunday (October 25)
Azores volcano could be ‘lab’ for Mars exploration
The Capelinhos volcano in the Azores is “an open book” with the potential to become a “laboratory” for the exploration of the volcanic system on Mars, a former director of