Portuguese police say they have captured more than 7.7 tons (7 metric tonnes) of hashish from Morocco with an estimated street value of more than euro70 million (US$91 million).

Conchita Cintron, a Peruvian woman famous for her bullfighting skills on foot and on horseback, has died, a news agency said. She was 86.

Portugal’s central bank predicted Tuesday the country’s economy will enter recession in 2009 for the third time in six years.

A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world’s oldest person living, has died in northwest Portugal at the age of 115, officials said Friday.

Portugal’s finance minister has warned his country’s banks he may take away credit guarantees worth euro20 billion ($28 billion) if they don’t resume normal lending.

Portugal says the European Union should offer to take in any detainees released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo.

Portugal’s Parliament voted by a large majority Friday against proposals to allow same-sex marriages in the mostly Roman Catholic country.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is excited about her landmark trip to Libya, when she will become the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

A team of legal experts in Lisbon is sifting through nearly 30,000 pages of police evidence on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and passing information to the British girl’s family who have hired private investigators, one of their lawyers said Thurs

Portugal’s attorney-general has told police to halt their investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann for lack of evidence.The case will remain on hold unless new evidence emerges.Attorney-General Fernando Pinto Monteiro’s...