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AN ONLINE slot machine game has been launched in Japan using the faces of the country’s most wanted criminals instead of traditional lemons and cherries. The Slot Detective, manufactured by

UNSEASONABLY HOT weather on the western coast of America has led to wildfires in California, with the worst hit area being the millionaire’s paradise of Montecito. Almost 5,500 houses have

By CHRIS GRAEME

ROBERT MURAT, a former arguido in the Madeleine McCann Case, has been awarded undisclosed libel damages from British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. The compensation comes after an article and video were

THE CHALLENGES faced by the residential tourism industry next year is the theme of a conference at the Marriott Praia D’El Rey Hotel in Óbidos, mid-west Portugal, on November 21.

US PRESIDENT ELECT Barak Obama has begun to debate the contentious issue of Guantanamo Bay. Members of Barak Obama’s team have stressed that no decisions have been made on the

MADEIRA’S LEGISLATIVE Assembly has presented an official complaint to the Public Prosecutor against a regional parliamentarian for unfurling a Nazi Swastika flag during a meeting of the island’s parliament. Partido

LISBON CÂMARA president António Costa reopened the newly revamped puppet museum, Museu da Marioneta, on November 6. The museum in Convento das Bernadas in Lisbon was originally founded in 1987

By INÊS LOPES ines@the-resident.com AROUND 200 people wore their poppies with pride as they gathered outside St. Luke’s Church, Palhagueira, in Gorjões near Santa Bárbara de Nexe for the Remembrance

VIDEO SHARING website YouTube will show full-length films from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Hollywood studios after signing a partnership that is aimed at boosting revenue for the two companies. This deal