Maddie McCann
Prime Suspect In Court On Five New Charges
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…
Picture shows a X-ray micro-CT of a male Eucera inside its nest, undated. Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. (Fernando Muiz, NewsX/Bee)
Researchers Baffled By 3,000-Year-Old Mummified Bees
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…
Image shows a reconstruction of a hunter gatherer associated with the Gravettian culture (32,000-24,000 years ago), undated photo. It was inspired by the archaeological findings at the Arene Candide site, in Italy. (Tom Bjoerklund/Newsflash)
People During Last Ice Age Who Sought Shelter In Spain And Portugal Survived Unlike Their Relatives In Italy
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…
Image shows the city of Coimbra, Portugal, undated photo. A boy, aged 7, died after swallowing a button battery while on a holiday. (Newsflash)
Seven-Year-Old Dies After Swallowing Button Battery
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…
Picture shows the worlds largest Ocean sunfish (Mola mola), undated. It weighs 2744 kilogrammes, found in Azores, Portugal. (Atlantic Naturalist Association/CEN
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World’s Heaviest Sunfish Weighing Over 2.7t Found On Atlantic Beach
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…
Some of the 72 puppies that were rescued by police officers in the German municipality of Waidhaus located in the state of Bavaria. (Landesverband Bayern, Deutscher Tierschutzbund LV Bayern e.V./Newsflash)
Cops Save 72 Puppies From Breeders’ Prison Van
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…
Passenger of British origin died in a plane from the Portuguese company TAP, after allegedly suffering a heart attack on the flight from London to Lisbon in May 2022. (Newsflash)
Flight Diverted After Brit Passenger Dies
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…
540 animals, mostly deer and wild boars, were slaughtered on a mount at Quinta da Torre Bela, in the municipality of Azambuja
Bodies Of Over Hundreds Of Deer And Wild Boar Scattered Over Ground After Illegal Christmas Hunt
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.…
23-year-old Lucas Paulo and his adoptive mother, who he allegedly stabbed more then 20 times in Paio Pires. (Newsflash)
Brazilian Man Accused Of Knifing Adoptive Mum To Death In Portugal
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…
Moment of the lightning strike
Stunning Upward Lightning Travels From Ground Into Cloud
This is the incredible moment forks of lightning are seen rising up from the ground and into the dark clouds above Portugal in a phenomenon called 'upward lightning'. The stunning…