The most common passwords in use remain the easiest ones to crack.

The top three in 2015 were “123456”, “password” and “qwerty”.

A Portuguese court has ruled to extradite a former officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency to Italy, where she faces charges of kidnapping a man as part of a secret operation.

Sabrina De Sousa, 59, was an accredited diplomat stationed at the US consulate in Milan, Italy, in 2003, when a CIA team kidnapped Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr from a Milan street in broad daylight.

The UK's  Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has thrown his weight behind demands for the return to Britain of the Sikh, Paramjeet Singh.

Singh has been held in a Portuguese prison for over a month after he was arrested while on holiday. The Indian authorities are  preparing a case for his extradition but seem to be in no great hurry.

In a joint operation between Spanish police and Portugal’s ASAE, simultaneous raid this morning have dismantled am efficient counterfeit clothing manufacturing and distribution network.

The factories in the north of Portugal, apparently owned and run by a Moroccan, were raided and yielded about 38,000 counterfeit items, including clothing, footwear, labels, etc., as well as six machines and close to €217,000 in cash.

The Airbnb website has been vital in boosting last year’s tourist figures, accounting for 6% of all breaks booked in 2015.

Portugal now is the 10th most popular destination using the website, says Arnaldo Muñoz, Airbnb Iberia’s director.

January 27th is the date for the first of two week-long visits to Portugal this year by a team from the Troika of lenders that bailed out the country in a financial move that at least one of the three since has regretted.

There has been a change of government since the last visit which resulted in a report that accused the Passos Coelho administration of slacking off in the run up to last October’s election.

David Bowie has been given his own constellation, which is composed of seven stars which create the shape of a lightning bolt.

Belgian astronomers announced that they have registered the constellation which sits in the vicinity of Mars.

"What the Government's intentions regarding the mining of feldspar in the Monchique mountains?"

This is but one of the questions put to the government by the Communist Party whose Algarve MP Paulo Sá has been made aware of the covert action by mining company Sifucel Silicas SA.