GEORGIA
Russian spies released FOUR RUSSIAN officers arrested on suspicion of being spies in the worst row between the countries have finally been released and arrived in Moscow earlier this week.
Christmas Shopping Break Competition
WIN! WIN! WIN! Win a fantastic three-night break this December to the Midlands, courtesy of low fares airline Thomsonfly.com. With two return air tickets from Faro to Coventry, the lucky
Taking up fiscal residency in Portugal
Taking up fiscal residency in Portugal – frequently asked questions Contributed by DENNIS SWING GREENE OVER THE previous months, we have discussed the nature of fiscal residency, how to extricate
A soft spot for pigs
By MARGARET BROWN FOR THE city dweller, pigs mean pork, to the butcher a pig arrives in two halves to be sliced, boned and packaged. While for the farmer, who
PAKISTAN
Daughter of disgraced scientist speak out DINA KHAN, daughter of the shamed Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography. In her
TRAVEL NEWS
Room for pets TRAVELLERS WHO cannot bear to be parted from their pets received good news this week, when one of Britain’s biggest hotel chains announced it is to install
Italy’s best wines
By Maurice P. Lee ITALY IS the world’s largest wine producer, producing some of the world’s best wines. Including Sicily and Sardinia, there are 20 wine growing regions and it
It’s a mad, bad, world
Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it SHORTLY AFTER I was born, John F Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, and
Interest is interesting international investors
Contributed by David Johnson Commercial foreign exchange dealer Halo Financial Ltd OF ALL the market moving data, the expectations for interest rate adjustments are the most influential at the moment.
Diospyros to Gleditzia – Part Three
By STUART MERELIE I THINK I received one of the best gardening tips last week. Shall I share it with you? “The best way to garden in the Algarve is to