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For the second time in a month there has been a bizarre case of nudism on Porto’s iconic D. Luís I bridge. The monument appears to have become a tourist attraction for exhibitionists. In July, a [...]

A Chinese businessman and two Portuguese security guards have been arrested today over the fire in a sought-after tourist residential district of Porto that killed one man and saw five neighbours [...]

What started out as a leadership challenge in the PSD – traditionally seen as one of Portugal’s ‘strongest political parties – has deteriorated into a unedifying farce this week with [...]

A young graduate in IT engineering has created an online site to detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease from voice recordings. Says Diogo Braga, working out of Porto’s Superior Institute of [...]

Porto’s magical bookshop, Livraria Lello – J.K. Rowling’s inspiration for her own Flourish and Blotts bookstore in the Harry Potter series – has been chosen for the world launch of [...]

VISTA restaurant in Praia da Rocha will host a beer pairing dinner on Saturday (April 9). The event will feature Chef João Oliveira’s signature dishes paired with Sovina’s best craft beers. There [...]

A 27-year-old man was stabbed in the chest, allegedly by a life-long friend, following a late-night ‘rave-party’ in Celorico de Basto, near Porto, which broke up in the early hours of Sunday [...]

A new online site in Portuguese for people who have cancer – or know someone fighting the disease – is now available, backed by doctors. ‘FalarSobreCancro.org’ (Talk About Cancer) is [...]

With no news on whether or not TAP’s privatisation deal is being reversed, the former State airline’s current bosses have axed nine routes out of Lisbon and Porto, blaming the fact that they run [...]

Porto’s iconic Livraria Lello bookstore has tripled book sales in just six months by starting to charge an admission fee. The idea was to stop the bookstore from overcrowding, thus making more [...]