Meet the 108-year-old woman who says that the secret to her long life is never having married and never having had children. Emilia Pires Rocha celebrated her 108th birthday in…
The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is to face trial in Germany accused of five sex offences. One of the attacks is said to have happened near Portugal's…
Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. Researchers from Lisbon and Seville said the bees, which were ready…
A new study has revealed that only hunter-gatherers who sought refuge in Spain and Portugal survived the last Ice Age 30,000 years ago. Using new DNA analysis of prehistoric human…
A seven-year-old boy has died after swallowing a button battery while on holiday in Portugal. The family - from Payerne, Switzerland - had been spending the winter break in the…
Boffins were left stunned after discovering the world's heaviest bony fish weighing over 2.7 tonnes on a beach in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The massive sunfish weighed 2,744…
Police have saved 72 puppies after they pulled over a van transporting them in appalling conditions. Horrified officers in Waidhaus, Bavaria, southern Germany, found dozens of pups crammed into tiny…
A British passenger has died of a suspected heart attack on a TAP Air Portugal flight from London to Lisbon. The flight had to make an emergency landing at Santiago…
Authorities in Portugal have launched an investigation into an illegal Christmas hunt that resulted in images showing the bodies of 540 mostly deer and wild boar strewn across the ground.…
A young man who starred alongside his adoptive father in a documentary that alleged their former church stole children from poor families and put them up for adoption is suspected…