A 35-year old man was found in a pool of his own blood in the early hours of Saturday morning, in an area between the municipal sports hall and the Francisco Cabrita school in Albufeira.
The Brazilian remained in a serious state on Sunday.
A statement from a manager of Erbslöh, a subsidiary of Ferrostaal, outlines how the submaine bribery system worked, a system previously so overt that the company was able to claim the sums paid to foreign government employees as a legitimate business expense when it came to its end-of-year taxes.
"When they tell me they did business without resorting to ‘useful applications,’ I do not believe it."
The countries which spend the highest proportion of public money on pensions are Italy (32%), Greece (28%) and Portugal (26.4%).
The figures, from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development, show that the average proportion in OECD countries is 18%.
An 'intelligent' bicycle is near completion in the Netherlands.
The cycle is designed to warn the user of a potential accident.
One police force in the UK is successfully capitalising on crime.
Leicestershire Police has harnessed the power of eBay to raise £273,000 this year by selling goods seized from criminals.
Portugal’s Prime Minister has reminded his colleagues that elections are not won abroad, they are won at home.
Pedro Passos Coelho wants his top team of ministers to cut foreign travel ‘in view of the elections’ next year while resigning himself to a further coalition in order to fend off the threat of a socialist victory, the alternative being ‘political suicide.’
Opposition parties reacted to the Prime Minister’s Christmas message arguing that Pedro Passos Coelho used half truths and that the message was actually an electoral message, rather than a Christmas one.
Referring to 'half-truths, lies and deception and the repetition of unfulfilled promises,' the Left Bloc MP Marisa Matias said that we would all love to live in the country described by Pedro Passos Coelho but that he had used half truths to continue to sell us a big lie.
Portugal is under a nationwide yellow warning due to the increasingly cold weather which will hit particular lows on Monday and Tuesday.
Portugal’s weather service issued the warning this weekend due to ‘continuing low temperatures’ especially between midnight on Sunday night and 18.00 on Tuesday.
