A motorist in Britain has become the first person to be convicted of driving for too long in the middle lane of a motorway.

A van driver received a fine of nearly £1,000 along with five penalty points.

Portugal’s former railway authority REFER and road company Estradas de Portugal have merged in a move widely heralded by the government and management as being based on the huge cost savings that will be achieved.

To celebrate this new period of cost reductions and a concentration on analysing every part of the merged business to see where further savings can be made to the taxpayers' benefit, a party costing a conservative €130,000 has been thrown for at least 1,300 guests.

Two of the largest energy companies in the UK have issued anti-stab vests to hundreds of their employees.

Nearly 400 workers at British Gas and EDF Energy have been given the protective gear to use when they investigate energy theft or forcibly install pre-payment meters in households which are in arrears.

In the aftermath of "VIP Taxpayers List" scandal the Tax Authority is to implement a set of data protection measures that will end up costing €5 million by 2017.

In an astounding admission of poor practice and outmoded systems, half of this sum is for a ‘computerised method of monitor workers’ access to data,’ which most assumed existed, until the VIP Taxpayers' List scandal erupted.

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has seen her popularity dip to a new low with just 10% of voters approving of her government.

Brazilians who rate her administration as “bad” or “very bad” went up to 65%, according to a Datafolha poll.

A maintenance worker attending to one of the military antennas near Sagres in the western Algarve has been crushed to death.

The 38-year-old worker was on the structure used for Air Force communications when the antenna buckled and the top section swung down, crushing the man who died at the scene.

Another coach has crashed, this time in the Alentejo near Almodôvar, Beja, at around 18.30 killing three passengers.

The Renex coach was taking passengers on its usual Algarve:Lisbon route and crashed killing three and injuring 17 including the driver, nine of them are in a serious condition.

Portugal’s food safety police have seized more than 12,000 kilos of honey illegally imported from China.

ASAE today announced the discovery in a warehouse in Seia, Guarda and calculated that there were 12,600 kilos of honey marked as being from Spain but in fact originating from China.