Father teaches son a lesson
A furious German father has dumped his 14-year-old son on a motorway 490 kilometres from home to “teach him a lesson”. The grumpy dad had just collected his son from
Big caiman spooks shoppers
Puerto Ricans at a shopping mall were spooked by an unlikely intruder, a 1.5 metre caiman. Ana Maria Ramos from Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural Resources said the big reptile
Pizza delivery man saves life
A man who used to be a paramedic and turned to delivering pizzas to make ends meet saved the life of a man who went into cardiac arrest just as
Don’t sit on the crocodile
A man in Australia broke into a zoo and climbed onto the back of a crocodile named Fatso, which bit him on the leg but then let him go. Police
Couple end up in the wrong Sydney
A couple from Italy got a taste of Cape Breton hospitality when they unexpectedly arrived in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada province, instead of Sydney, Australia. Valerio Torresi and Serena Tavoloni
Octopus Paul faces grilling
German soccer fans are calling for a public grilling of an octopus that correctly picked the winner of all six of Germany’s World Cup games until the semi-final game loss
Alternative heating and cooling systems
By Colin Reid features@algarveresident.com Engineer Colin Reid is the general manager of Lagos-based company Enova Group, whcih continues to pioneer new technology in the Algarve. Welcome to our regular feature
Increasing longevity forces governments to increase pension
By BILL BLEVINS features@algarveresident.com Bill Blevins is the Managing Director of Blevins Franks. He has specialised in expatriate investment and tax planning for over 35 years. He has written books
Party planning, the Pure way!
By Serene Grace Horn features@algarveresident.com Serena Grace Horn works at Pure – Vilamoura’s latest social hotspot – where she juggles a busy social life in the Algarve with her drama
The future is now
The aeronautical company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, US, plans to deliver its car-plane, called the Transition, to customers by the end of 2011. It recently cleared a major hurdle