The Portuguese education and sports minister has been robbed at knife-point by the Olympic lake in Rio de Janeiro, where rowing events have been taking place during the games. The minister was unharmed, according to Portuguese authorities.

Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, Portugal’s education and sports minister, had been returning to his hotel from the Olympic cycling road race accompanied by his aide, when he was approached by two men, who threatened him with a knife and forced him to hand over cash and a mobile phone.

The scaled down British Metropolitan Police team involved in Operation Grange, the search for Madeleine McCann who disappeared nine years ago from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, have ended its forensic investigation.

The announcement that the forensic work from the operation has ended was made after scientific tests carried out three months ago "didn't take the police forward."  

A Spanish subsidiary of Pemex, Mexico’s largest company, has given former Deputy Prime Minister, Paulo Portas, a directorship.

Portas has joined Mex Gas Enterprises, based in Madrid, which is involved in the marketing of natural gas worldwide.

The Public Security Police have arrested seven people selling fake goods in Portimão and seized over 600 articles of clothing and accessories.

The PSP said that those arrested, aged in their 20s, could not provide documentation showing where the goods had been bought from.

The Social Democrat party leader in the Algarve, David Santos, had commented that the weighting attributed to sun exposure to work out property tax is "illogical and unreasonable."

The so-called ‘sunshine tax’ will hit the Algarve harder than other regions in Portugal, says Santos, as "on the one hand, on average, properties located in the Algarve have more sun exposure than in the rest of the country. On the other hand, because the region has the largest concentration of properties located in coastal areas with a sea views, this will be reflected in the amount of tax to be paid by the owners."

A section of cliff collapsed onto a popular beach in Albufeira just before 1pm on Sunday.

The authorities claimed there were no injuries, thankfully this proved to be true after 1,000 tonnes of rock collapsed onto the sand.  Maria Luísa beach was the scene of the 2009 tragedy (pictured) when five people were crushed to death.

Loulé council has given the anti-oil awareness campaign a boost by donating three huge billboards to Plataforma Algarve Livre de Petróleo (PALP) so the organisation can put up posters until the end of the summer.

"These public awareness materials will be placed in high visibility locations where thousands of vehicles go past each day, especially at this time of year.

A Social Democrat MP, the long-serving Cristóvão Norte, was also on the freebie trip to the Euro2016 Hungary vs Portugal game paid for by Galp.

This is the same Galp that is in partnership with the corrupt Italian state-owned oil company ENI and has a concession to explore and produce oil or gas off the west coast of the region.