The US state of Colorado has realised $44 million (£29 million) in tax revenue in the first year of legalised cannabis sales.
It was the first state to authorise legal sales of the narcotic for recreational use to anyone over the age of 21. Sales are authorised only in shops licensed by the state.
HSBC has taken out several full-page ads in several British Sunday newspapers to announce its apology over the scandal which is enveloping it.
Documents leaked by whistleblower Herve Falciani purport that HSBC’s Swiss private bank with active in helping clients evade tax.
Tolls imposed by the Portuguese government on Portugal’s formerly free road network are illegal and should be removed. The European Commission has threatened to take Portugal to the European Court of Justice unless the tolls system is scrapped forthwith.
The tolls infringe community law and expert opinion in the test case brought by Aveiro council had concluded that the ruling is valid for all SCUT roads, including the Via do Infante across the Algarve.
Internet users have been warned to print out copies of important documents and photographs before they are lost forever.
Google’s vice president and internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, said it was time to preserve digital data.
The hotel and tourism workers union management said today that it was deeply concerned about the financial situation at the hotels in the Tivoli group whose management has applied for relief under a Special Revitalisation Process.
It does not help the general mood that the hotel company’s sole shareholder, the Espírito Santo subsidiary, Rioforte Investments, is itself bankrupt.
EU leaders believe that stricter border controls need to be imposed in the Shengen area.
At a meeting in Brussels on Thursday they agreed to tighten measures to "disrupt terrorist travel".
The European Union is to provide €288 million in a move to foster cross-border cooperation between Portugal and Spain.
The European Commission claimed today that the money will be made available through the latest phase of the interregional cooperation programme (Interreg), which, including some national funds, will bring the total available to €382.5 million.
"Bye-bye, Miss American Pie/Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry."
"The jester sang for the king and queen/In a coat he borrowed from James Dean" and "while Lennon read a book on Marx/The quartet practiced in the park".
