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

The Border Patrol says an agent fired a gun at a driver who ran over an agent’s leg at a vehicle checkpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border east of San Diego.

Anxious passengers on a flight to Portugal successfully petitioned Germany’s Air Berlin to change their plane after a technical problem prompted the pilot to scrap two attempts to take off, the airline said Monday.

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.

Portuguese news reports say a train has derailed near a northern town and at least one person is dead while about 25 people are injured.

World champion Nelson Evora of Portugal has won the triple jump gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

World indoor champion Naide Gomes of Portugal has failed to make it into the final of the long jump competition at the Olympics.

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 Thursday.

Intel Corp.’s low-cost laptop initiative is set to get a boost Wednesday from Portugal’s government, which is pledging to provide elementary school students with 500,000 computers based on the chipmaker’s Classmate PC design.

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...