Man attempts to rob a police station
Keithan Manuel is learning the hard way that a sense of humor is very subjective, but that’s what happens when you attempt to rob a police station. Manuel walked into
Mourners shocked as waiter wakes up at his own funeral
Mourners at the funeral of a ‘dead’ Egyptian waiter were stunned when he woke up moments before the burial. Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, 28, from Naga al-Simmanm, near Luxor was declared
Real-life mermaid
Underwater swimmer Hannah Fraser has been fascinated with mermaids since she was three years old. The 36 year-old Australian, who now lives in LA, made her first mermaid tail at
Mother makes children slaves
A mother made slaves of her two children and forced them to work for gipsies rather than go to school after a fortune teller told her it was the right
Call me Tyrannosaurus Rex
Businessman Tyler Gold believes the dinosaur name is “cooler” than his and filed to have it legally changed. It may be a little prehistoric, but a 23-year-old American man’s new
Changes to the electricity market
For the last decades, the Portuguese electricity market was under a pure monopoly – EDP – and it was subject to the direct control of the Portuguese authorities, namely regarding
35% of UK adults bring teddy bears to bed
Move over, dogs. Man’s best friend might actually be a bear. About 35% of British adults admitted they sleep with a teddy bear to de-stress before bedtime, according to a
Boy lives as girl in youngest case of GID
A little boy who decided he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body has become one of the youngest-ever children to have his decision backed by the NHS –
Carnival as usual
By Jenny Grainer features@algarveresident.com Jenny Grainer arrived in the Algarve to live, work and raise a family in 1968. She is a freelance writer and her book ‘Portugal and the
Good spine for a healthy sex life
by Sandra Genest-Boudreau and Christophe O. Alves features@algarveresident.com Sandra Genest-Boudreau is French-Canadian, who graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1990 before coming to the Algarve in 2002. She

