People in France have started the year amidst a flurry of change.
The number of regions in the country has been whittled down from 22 to just 13. While some, such as Brittany, remained unchanged, elsewhere two or even three regions have been combined.
By hacking into emails, gangsters are gaining millions from disrupted property sales in Britain.
More than £10 million is estimated to have been lost to criminals who pose as buyers, sellers or lawyers.
José Sócrates was the star turn in a conference debating 'Justice' that was held in Vila Real de Santo António on Saturday.
The Former Prime Minister said that the Socialist Party needed to choose a candidate for the imminent presidential elections, considering that decisive support would return a left wing candidate to take over from Cavaco Silva whose presidency is nearly over.
Four years after closing down many consulates and Embassies around the world, the Portuguese government is to make more services available online.
The new Secretary of State for Communities, José Luis Carneiro, said the government wants to modernise services and put many aspects of consular work online.
There will be an inquiry but Communist Party MPs already have said that there are some serious questions to be answered as a matter of urgency regarding the Banif sale.
The Ministry of Finance today was asked in parliament about the deal, specifically the sale of Banif to Santander Totta when a higher offer from Apollo that would not have left the taxpayer underwriting the whole deal.
The unemployment level in the eurozone dropped from 11.5% in November 2014 to 10.5% last November.
This still left nearly 17 million people in the region without jobs.
Five individuals have been convicted of corruption in Rome and more are currently on trial.
Among the convicts is a former councillor for the city, Daniele Ozzimo.
The soaring rate of obesity in the UK has triggered a diabetes time bomb as the number of people who have disease rose by 65% in just the last decade.
More than four million people in Britain have the condition and experts fear the number could reach five million within another decade.
