Statins are credited with a dramatic drop in the number of strokes affecting people in the UK.

Ryanair appears to be entering a cathartic phase.

Annual inflation in the EU countries was an average of 1.3%, considerably higher than Portugal’s rate of 0.3%.

A disappointed secretary general of Portugal’s association for the hotel and restaurant sector said the board will convene a special meeting to answer the government’s insistence that VAT at 23% on meals in a sector that has nearly halved in size is somehow a good thing.

Angola's president has said ties with its former colonial ruler, Portugal, are "not well."

Portugal’s airports received 8.8 million passengers in the second quarter of 2013, 4.9% more than in the same period last year, led by Faro which was up 6.1%.

Portugal is six from the bottom of the European league for customers buying on line.

The Portuguese state has paid compensation of over €1 million as requested by the European Court of Human Rights for "moral damages" to 217 victims of slow justice.