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...

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 University of California, Santa Barbara, is investigating allegations of improper conduct and anti-Semitism against a Jewish professor who compared Israel’s...

Pope Benedict XVI is canonizing five new saints, including Portugal’s 14th century independence leader and an Italian monk who died of the plague after tending to...

The Dalai Lama says the global economic crisis will teach people that peace of mind, family and friends can bring happiness when money is lacking.

Authorities say a pilot is missing after his small plane crashed into the ocean off the Santa Barbara coast.

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. ...

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...

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...

Elizabeth Taylor has expanded her philanthropy with a $100,000 donation to the Alliance for Christian Education.

Actor and former TV host Gary Collins faces 120 days in jail or home detention after pleading no contest to misdemeanor driving under the influence.

Guinea-Bissau, a tiny country in West Africa, has had a long history of instability and numerous attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974. For 23 of the...

When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated.

A mixture of oil and water leaking Wednesday from an Exxon Mobil platform spread across a mile of ocean off the Southern California coast, federal and state officials...

Federal and state officials say they are investigating an oil spill at an Exxon Mobil platform in California’s Santa Barbara Channel.

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

Authorities have charged host Gary Collins with drunken driving.

Prosecutors say 10 people who lit a campfire will not be charged with igniting a wildfire that destroyed more than 200 homes in California.

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...

Authorities say they arrested actor and TV host Gary Collins on suspicion of drunken driving.