Russia has staked out a further vast chunk of the Arctic.

The country’s foreign ministry says it has submitted a claim to the UN for 1.2 million sq km of sea shelf.

Ivory weighing 262kg has been confiscated by customs authorities in Zurich airport after being discovered packed in eight suitcases.

The luggage appears to have been in transit from Dar es Salam in Tanzania to Beijing via Zurich. They had been dispatched from Tanzania by three Chinese men.

A group of 144 small shareholders and investors has filed an injunction with the District Court of Lisbon requesting the seizure of all the property and assets of ‘bad bank’ Banco Espírito Santo.

The group of shareholders and investors in financial products, controversially sold over the counter in BES branches, is supported by the Consortium for the Defence of BES Investors.

Legendary ‘70s pop group Supertramp has announced the 'Supertramp Forever Tour' scheduled to start in Portugal and continue around Europe from November this year has been cancelled due to Rick Davis having been diagnosed with cancer, which clearly needs treatment.

Gondomar was been chosen to host the first gig on November 3rd, then the MEO Arena in Lisbon before the group was to head off to France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and the UK.

Further to the recent news item (July 31st 2015) concerning a man who was badly injured by a dangerous dog on Quarteira beach*, enquiries into the current laws covering dangerous dog breeds and their owners' responsibilities, have revealed a legal mish-mash that remains unresolved.

The modus operandi regulating ownership of dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs remains unpublished, two years after the proposed law made training mandatory.

Despite lingering court actions designed to halt the Swedish giant retailer, the Ikea Group in Portugal finally has started work on its vast commercial project between Loulé and Faro.

The diggers started today, August 3rd, with an unspecific completion date for the Ikea store sometime in 2016 with the surrounding shopping centre due to be completed a year later.

Staff from the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) are set to release thousands of fish grown in captivity in an effort to boost the populations of those species that are popular with small-scale fishermen off the Algarve coastline.

The restocking operation will take place on Thursday 6 August when about 25,000 juvenile sea bream and sea bass will be set free from aquaculture facilities into the sea, south of the island of Armona in the Ria Formosa.

Hungary is racing to finish building a fence to block migrants.

The plan is for a barrier stretching 108 miles along the border with Serbia. The country’s prime minister says the barrier is necessary to halt migrants wishing to reach Europe by entering a nation in the visa-free Schengen area.