The Church of Scientology has had its appeal against a fraud conviction quashed by a top court in France.

Consumer spending is on the up in the UK with retail sales at their highest level since the recession hit in 2008.

"We feel wronged, frustrated and angry,” as yet again the car sector takes the brunt in the budget.

"Being without hope is socially dangerous," says the leader of Portugal’s employers' confederation.

Finance Minister, Maria Luis Albuquerque, announced the main points of her proposed 2014 budget this week, saying that there was no plan B if the Constitutional Court found against any of her fundraising or cost-cutting schemes.

Portugal’s National Association for Nature Conservation, Quercus, has hit out at the "continuous environmental abuses and illegality” in the Ria Formosa National Park, referring to "the events in September on Culatra with the illegal construction of a helipad."

The Tourism Association of Portimão (ATP) has a presence for the second year running at the Senior 2013 fair in the Swedish city of Stockholm this week.

The Algarve’s A22/Via Infante motorway suffered a decrease of 10.4 % in its Average Daily Traffic in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012 - which was bad enough.