Portugal’s Prime Minister Jose Socrates is embroiled in a row after a national TV channel shelved a programme dealing with alleged government corruption. Chief editors of the privately run TVI channel resigned after the broadcast - due on...

IN 2001 newspapers around the world carried graphic reports of addicts injecting heroin in the grimy streets of a Lisbon slum. The place was dubbed Europe’s “most shameful neighbourhood” and its “worst drugs ghetto”. The Times helpfully...

Domestic violence. It happens when nobody is watching. We have seen the scary way Keira Knightley was kicked onscreen in the anti-domestic violence ad and the controversy over it. Here are some screaming ad strips against domestic violence....

The Serious Fraud Office is embroiled in a fiasco that may inadvertently have settled the fate of José Sócrates, the Portuguese Prime Minister, and determined the outcome of that country’s elections in September. Beyond Portuguese...

Sunday, an Airbus of Air France that left the Rio toward Paris disappeared over the ocean. The Flight AF 447 carrying 228 people, including crew and passengers. Most of the victims were French and Brazilian. This tragedy is full of doubts...

Every year thousands of surfers flock to the Western coast of Portugal, an area often overlooked by mainstream tourism but well known to surfers for its solid surf. The offshore breezes bring swells across the Atlantic seaboard generating ideal...

Portugal carries a painful record of having the highest number of casualties due to breast cancer among the European countries. As an all out war against this threat, a new outdoor campaign, spearheaded by McCann Erickson, has been shaped in a...

Portuguese attacking winger Ricardo Quaresma had hoped to make it big in Italy when countryman Jose Mourinho signed him from FC Porto for a massive 15 million pound at the start of the 2008/2009 season. As it was Mourinho’s first signing...

If there is a bag truly made for techies, it is this one. This keyboard bag, by Portuguese designer Joao Sabino, is quite an innovation. With 393 random keys, literally embellishing the bag, it absolutely gets my vote for best geeky...

Rebuilding something is a tough job, it requires a final product such that makes you forget the original. This statement holds good for the wooden vespa created by a Portuguese craftsman named Carlos Alberto. The entire framework is hand built,...