British exports have been slowed by the global economic slowdown, forcing manufacturers to cut jobs and prices last month.
Sluggish demand from outside the UK resulted in British manufacturing registering one of its weakest performances for three years, according to the respected Markit survey.
The Portuguese branch of the Anonymous collective of computer hackers says that its members have hacked into various official websites of the Angolan government in disgust at the sentences handed out to 17 members of a Luandan book club.
The collective says it shut down 20 government websites after the activists were jailed for plotting a so-called rebellion.
The price of an average house in the UK has stretched above the £200,000 mark for the first time, according to Nationwide Building Society.
An average home in the south costs £313,670 while a house in northern England averages £150,917, making a typical house in the north less than half the price of one in the south.
The Brazilian billionaire who owns London’s iconic Gerkin skyscraper has been charged with corruption.
Joseph Safra, 77, was charged on Thursday with corruption in relation to a conspiracy to pay 15.3 million reais (€3.77 million) in bribes to Brazilian tax officials, Brazilian prosecutors said.
The first edition of the Nanny State Index, a league table of the best and worst places in the EU to eat, drink and smoke, has named Portugal as one of the best.
The ranking, called the Nanny State Index, looked at how much of an influence European governments have on their citizens' drinking, smoking and eating habits.
Sines port authority is testing a new simplified invoice system amid much congratulation, enthusiasm and hope that something called a FUP can save 600,000 pieces of paper a year.
FUP is a ‘Fatura Única Portuária’ which has been introduced by the Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino as part of the Maritime Simplex Programme.
Disasters, both natural and man-made, cost $92 billion (€81 billion) for Swiss Re, the global reinsurance provider.
While costly enough, the year marked a fall in the 2014 bill of $113 billion.
Portugal's Left Bloc led by Catarina Martins has recommended to the Socialist government that it introduces measures to help growers of the 'strawberry tree' whose fruit is used to produce the Algarve’s iconic tipple, medronho.
Left Bloc enthusiasts’ draft resolution recommends that the government approves ‘financial mechanisms and technical resources.’
