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Sep 27 2008, Sameer Kumar

EcoFactor: The world’s first wave power plant is up and floating off the coast of Portugal and has a capability of producing 2.25 MW of clean energy.

Unlike solar and wind power, wave energy is still largely uncharted territory for us. But all...

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Sep 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Sep 5 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Aug 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Aug 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

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

 
 
Aug 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

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

 
 
Aug 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 30 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

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...

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

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...

 
 
Jul 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

A British police force agreed Monday to give the parents of Madeleine McCann 80 pieces of information about its investigation into her disappearance in Portugal last year.In return for Leicestershire police’s agreement to release that information,...

 
 
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Sep 27 2008 by Sameer Kumar1 Comments

EcoFactor: The world’s first wave power plant is up and floating off the coast of Portugal and has a capability of producing 2.25 MW of clean energy.

Unlike solar and wind power, wave energy is still largely uncharted territory for us. But all...

 
 
Sep 5 2008 by Nithya N2 Comments

A by-product of the Promontorio Studio, this Mora-based, barn-shaped construction is called the Mora River Aquarium. The design and the construction incorporate the bio-diverse paradigm of the Iberian river, and it is embedded in the ecological park....

 
 
Aug 7 2008 by Atul0 Comments

Forgive me for the translation woes here but I have put in my best efforts to comprehend whatever I could. Hopefully hailing from Portugal, the Parajet is a kind of flying car that takes to wings through a Yamaha R1 engine. The maker puts it across as...

 
 
Jul 14 2008 by Sameer Kumar1 Comments

So fine, this is not actually from Disneyland, but it could be considering the way it is designed and the fact that the Pivo is a car that should be in the world of cartoons and not in the real world. This is not to say that I don’t like the car; I...

 
 
Apr 26 2008 by Sameer Kumar0 Comments

To tap the energy present in the heart of those unconventional resources you sometimes need unconventional methods. That is exactly what a brilliant company in Finland is doing. I have come across only yesterday a story about one brilliant gentleman...

 
 
Dec 10 2007 by Atul0 Comments

This would have been my perfect investment if I ever possessed dosh enough to mock at my most discreet wishes. Owning a giant Island, that too, the most expensive one in the world, a perfect way for the most elite riches to spend their wealth and make...

 
 
Nov 28 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Former Sporting star Cristiano Ronaldo scored the second winner in as many matches against his old club to knock the Portuguese team out of this season’s Champions League and maintain Manchester United’s hundred percent record in the competition. There...

 
 
Sep 26 2007 by Saurabh0 Comments

Romania edges Portugal 14-10 to register its first win at the current tournament while the Japanese players erupted on the field as if they had won the Rugby World Cup, after a dramatic end that earned them a 12-12 tie with Canada. Kirwan’s team,...

 
 
Sep 20 2007 by Saurabh0 Comments

Italians must have been thinking of surpassing the 83-0 score they recorded against Portugal last year, but ironically the tournament newcomer looked a determined and well-organized side to prove that they were not going to be easily rolled over by...

 
 
Sep 14 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

Portugal national football team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is a fierce character who is brilliant tactically but immensely histrionic at the same time. It seems that his playing career in Brazil, when he was often sent off for excessive arguing with...

 
 
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Basel’s player Behrang Safari, center, is disappointed while Lisbon’s players cheer after the Champions League group C soccer match between Sporting Clube de Portugal and Switzerland’s FC Basel at the Jose Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, Portugal,...