In excess of 30 bogus universities in the UK were shut down in the last year.

Since 2011, a total of 220 fake universities operating in Britain have been identified, 80% of which are no longer active.

French government ministers have been urged to stay in France for their summer break and to limit its duration.

Officials are having to deal with security concerns in the wake of terrorist attacks, a national state of emergency, stagnation of the economy, and plummeted popularity ratings. Presidential and parliamentary elections loom.

Guilty as much of taking the proverbial as skipping bail, sunbathing ex-con James Waston's delight in taunting the British authorities was short lived.

Watson, on bail in the cold case inquiry into the horrific abuse and murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave in 1994, sneaked out of the UK and headed for Portugal, bored with his Northamptonshire bail hostel and having regularly to report to local police.

Mariza, Katia Guerreiro with Orquestra Clássica do Sul, Tony Carreira, HMB, Loulé Urban Sunset by Hugo Tabaco and Night Parade.

These are the ingredients of a delicious 'Loulé Summer' offering that will take place in several areas of the county during the second half of August.

Again, Portugal’s airborne emergency services have been tested and found to be excellent as the life of a man on a merchant ship has been saved by the expert abilities of a Portuguese navy helicopter crew.

The 46-year-old Russian man with "uncontrolled bleeding, pain and very low blood pressure" was whisked from the merchant vessel Esprit and flown to Faro airport.

For the second consecutive year, Portugal’s birth rate is growing with the first half figures for 2016 showing there were an additional 2,639 newborn screening tests carried out than in the same period last year.

In all, 42,758 tests have been made in the first six months of 2016. This compares well with the crisis years between 2011 and 2014 when a worrying downward trend quickly developed.

Portugal’s stored water resources of course have dropped this July, as confirmed by the National Information System for Water Resources, while the weather service confirms that we have just had the second hottest July since 1931.

The hottest July was back in 1989, with an average mainland temperature for Portugal of 24.63°C.  July 2016 was a tad less baking at an average of 24.33°C.

Portugal has put the brakes on the extradition to Italy of a former CIA agent over her role in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam who claimed he was subsequently tortured, writes thelocal.it

"The extradition process seems to have stopped for now," Sabrina de Sousa, 60, who holds both US and Portuguese nationality, told AFP via email on Monday.