The renowned footballer Lionel Messi and his father will be tried for tax fraud.
The pair has been charged with tax fraud for allegedly failing to declare €4.16 million in taxes relating to the rights to use his image between 2007 and 2009.
Iran is considering building an oil refinery in Algeciras on the Spanish coast, according to the Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo.
"Iran is studying the possibility of setting up a refinery in Spain, specifically in Algeciras," on the south coast, Garcia-Margallo said on Monday.
The criminal records of people who are not EU citizens are to be shared with EU member countries for the first time.
The European Commission announced that it will upgrade its database, the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), adding information about criminal records of people from outside the EU.
Financial giant Commerzbank says that Portugal has changed from "a good student" into "the problem child of the eurozone" and risks ending up just like Greece.
The new Portuguese government is criticised for carrying out a "fundamental change of policy" that will lead to an increase in debt and an erosion of competitiveness.
The most common passwords in use remain the easiest ones to crack.
The top three in 2015 were “123456”, “password” and “qwerty”.
A Portuguese court has ruled to extradite a former officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency to Italy, where she faces charges of kidnapping a man as part of a secret operation.
Sabrina De Sousa, 59, was an accredited diplomat stationed at the US consulate in Milan, Italy, in 2003, when a CIA team kidnapped Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr from a Milan street in broad daylight.
The UK's Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has thrown his weight behind demands for the return to Britain of the Sikh, Paramjeet Singh.
Singh has been held in a Portuguese prison for over a month after he was arrested while on holiday. The Indian authorities are preparing a case for his extradition but seem to be in no great hurry.
In a joint operation between Spanish police and Portugal’s ASAE, simultaneous raid this morning have dismantled am efficient counterfeit clothing manufacturing and distribution network.
The factories in the north of Portugal, apparently owned and run by a Moroccan, were raided and yielded about 38,000 counterfeit items, including clothing, footwear, labels, etc., as well as six machines and close to €217,000 in cash.
