The planned industrial action at all of Portugal’s airports is to start on Friday July 1st and continue over the weekend as talks have failed to produce a solution to long-running labour problems.

A meeting earlier in the week between airport workers’ unions and Minister Pedro Marqeus resulted in an impasse so the planned 'biggest ever airport strike' is to go ahead on one of the busiest periods of the year for tourism.

Proven liar and former Minister in the Pedro Passos Coelho administration, Miguel Relvas has been stripped of his coveted University degree by the Administrative Court in Lisbon.

In a case that has taken three years to sort out, the court considered ‘void’ the degree awarded to Relvas by the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies (ULHT).

US seed and pesticide giant Monsanto said on Wednesday that it is still open to a possible merger with Germany’s Bayer.

Last month Monsanto rejected as “financially inadequate” a $62 billion takeover bid from Bayer, but discussions continued not only with Bayer but also other unspecified firms.

The new bypass was opened yesterday between Almancil and the A22 to Faro link road just to the north of the Algarve Stadium.

The journey, if heading west from Faro, will take drivers north of São Lourenço to reconnect at the roundabout at the bottom of the hill at Quatro Estradas where they can continue along the EN125, turn north to Loulé or head south to Quarteira.

A raid Google’s office in Madrid was conducted by tax investigators on Thursday as part of a probe.

Just a month ago, French investigators raided the company’s Paris headquarters, saying it was being investigated for aggravated financial fraud and organised money laundering of Google’s profits.

A census has shown that nearly 27% of the Japanese population is over the age of 64.

At the same time, the number of children under 15 years is at a record low of just barely 13% of the total.

As expected, the European Commission has extended the license for glyphosate for 18 months.

Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis announced the last-minute re-licensing on June 28th despite failing three times in a row to secure a majority decision from the European Union’s member states.

The former mayor of Tavira, and latterly Faro, finally has received his sentence - four and a half years in prison, suspended for the same period.

Correia had been found guilty by Faro court of misusing his political office by authorising the construction of three houses and one swimming pool in a National Ecological Reserve (REN) area within the Tavira municipality.