A strikingly modern new golf and spa hotel just outside Lisbon is set to cause a stir in the Portuguese hotel scene this summer, says Jonathan Gregson... more
Portugal must push through even tougher reforms than those rejected by the Lisbon parliament last month if it is to secure bailout aid, eurozone finance ministers have said... more
A "two-speed" property market across Europe will develop this year as investment hot-spots like London widen the gap on strugglers such as Athens, Dublin and Lisbon... more
Television presenter and retired ambassador are among seven people convicted of child sex abuse in Portugal after a trial that lasted nearly six years... more
Manoel de Oliveira, the only director still working who has made silent films, knows how to tell a story as Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl proves... more
The Pope celebrates an open-air Mass for 80,000 people in Lisbon, urging Europeans to seek joy in faith and hope as a way of overcoming financial hardship... more
Three of the world’s top athletes send out a warning to their rivals as they revealed they will run as a team in a bid to dominate Sunday’s Virgin London Marathon... more
Kate and Gerry McCann celebrate legal victory after former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral failed to overturn a ban on his book in which he claimed their daughter Madeleine was dead... more
UK policing agency that advised Portuguese detectives to consider the possibility of Madeleine McCann’s parents being involved in her disappearance said it is common practice... more
Kate McCann says that listening to claims that she faked her daughter Madeleine’s abduction was difficult — but that nothing could be as bad as losing her child... more
Kate and Gerry McCann return to Portugal for the libel trial of the former Portuguese detective who headed the investigation into their daughter Madeleine's disappearance... more
It isn't as easy as it looks, is it? As the Conservative conference opens in Manchester today, David Cameron and his team have been given an unwelcome taste of what it is like to experience the full blast of pitiless scrutiny that comes with government - or, in their case, the assumption that you will very soon be in office. And, as ever with the Tory Party, it is Europe that has delivered the slap across the face.... more
The Irish are voting on the Lisbon Treaty today. They are the only people in Europe to be holding a referendum and whatever else the vote does, it points to the bracing effect on politics that comes from an obligation to put specific issues to the people... more
Globetrotting backbench MPs have received £1.4million of free trips in a year - flying first class, staying in five-star hotels and getting a daily cash allowance... more
A wide-ranging inquiry into the Iraq war will be set up within days of the next Tory government taking office, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said... more
Londoners pay more than three times the European average to watch a film, research showed today. An adult ticket for the Odeon in Leicester Square costs up to £17.50.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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