Portugal

A TRAIN crash in north eastern Portugal on Friday (August 22) morning claimed the life of a 47-year old woman and left a total of 43 people injured. A spokesman

BODYBOARDERS FROM around the world will be at Praia Grande in Sintra this weekend attempting to win a share of the 60,000 US dollar prize fund. This is the 13th

A CARGO ship rescued 25 African migrants off the southern coast of Spain’s Almeria province on Monday, although at least another 25 had died on the journey from hunger, thirst

A BULLET-PROOF security van transporting an undisclosed sum of money was robbed near the Aljustrel service station, in the county of Beja, Alentejo, along the A2 motorway, during the early

UNEMPLOYMENT LOOKS set to rise in Portugal after being in decline since 2005. Statistics covering the period from January to July 2008, published last week by the Portuguese National Statistics

HURRICANE GUSTAV, which hit Haiti and killed at least two people, weakened to a tropical storm on Wednesday, although experts have warned that it could have regained strength by this

A LEAKED document, which proposes a large salary be paid to the wives of the Kenyan Prime Minister and Vice-President, has left the population outraged. The document says the head

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com AN EIGHT-year-old British girl on holiday in the Algarve has been placed in protective care at a children’s home in Loulé. Social services were alerted to

LIFEGUARDS AT several beaches near Torres Vedras on the west coast of Portugal, have reported an unusually high number of sightings of Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. The species is common in

WEEKLY FLIGHTS have resumed to São Tomé e Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea, from Lisbon Airport every Monday. The service was stopped several months ago after TAAG, the Angola