Special Report

Two decades after Bob Geldof’s first fundraising efforts highlighted starvation in the Dark Continent, a vast hunger belt still affects an area from central Africa through to the Indian Ocean

• Andreia Sancho of the Junta de Freguesia de Montenegro PORTUGAL’S LOCAL council elections are almost upon us and if you want to have a say in how your borough

AFTER YEARS of obfuscation, the British government has admitted there may be as many as 570,000 illegal immigrants in the UK, a figure some experts believe to be an underestimate.

DURING A second phase of excavations at the village of Andrés, near Pombal (central Portugal), palaeontologists have unearthed more dinosaur bones believed to have belonged to the fearsome carnivore “Allosaurus”,

HOW DID the living tragedy that is Africa come into being? While other parts of the developing world have seen rapid economic growth, Africa is the only continent to have

Daughter of local resident awarded

SCORES OF giant eyeballs floated across Trafalgar Square in London last month, as Stop Aids Campaign, members of Make Poverty History, launched its latest action, calling on the G8 leaders

Record economic growth has fuelled a massive demand for energy, making the country the largest oil consumer after America and the world’s biggest producer and consumer of coal. There has

Children are malnourished and many are suffering from curable diseases. The conditions in which they live are deplorable. This is a humanitarian crisis of tragic magnitude and much needs to

IF YOU won’t be attending any of the Live8 concerts in person, don’t despair because the concerts are being beamed live by satellite to your living-room. These spectacular concerts will