The first-ever wreckage of a ship that went down with slaves on board has been found just 100 yards off the coast of South Africa where it sank in 1794.

The Portuguese ship, Sao Jose-Paquete de Africa, set out from Mozambique Island with more than 400 slaves shackled in its hold in December of that year, bound for Brazil's sugar plantations, but it fell well short of the 7,000-mile journey, the New York Times reports.

The governor of Gibraltar has announced that he intends to resign from his post.

Sir James Dutton has served as governor only since December 2013. His predecessor had been in post for four years.

Mácario Correia has been accused of illegal issuing a license to build a house in an ecologically sensitive area. The maximum sentence, if he is found guilty, is 8 years in prison.

The prosecution’s case against Tavira and Faro’s former mayor is that Correia gave the go-ahead to build a house in a National Ecological Reserve area, overruling the 'unfavorable' opinions of two Tavira council’s technicians.

People who sell goods or services online are being targeting by the UK tax authority as it attempts to tighten the screws against tax evasion.

HMRC is looking not just at eBay, but also other sites such as Etsy, Amazon, and Gumtree.

Only 20 years ago in Portugal, only one in five babies were born outside of marriage: these days it is one in two. The sociologist Pedro Moura Ferreira says you can blame it on the "secularisation of society."

"Sexual relations continue, but outside of marriage," said the researcher from the Institute of Social Sciences, who blames a reduction in the stigma attached to unmarried mothers for boosting the rate.

José Manuel Barroso has told politicians to stop “waiting for an accident” to happen with Greece and to work to avoid the country leaving the eurozone.

Formerly the head of the European Commission, Mr Barroso accused politicians of having taken “too long” to find a solution. Greece must find €304 million to repay the International Monetary Fund by 5 June.

Portuguese emigrants living in France are regretting deeply their allegiance to the Banco Espírito Santo brand. Yesterday 250 of them demonstrated in Paris outside a Novo Banco branch which shut for the day as a precaution.

Posters were waved complaining of theft and corruption by BES staff which they say duped them into switching their deposited savings in to ill-fated bonds in Grupo Espírito Santo companies.

With demand rising for France’s prized black truffle, theft has increased, with one incident of an armed hold-up of a truffle farmer and more recently a murder.

Last week, French farmer Laurent Rambaud, 37, was sentenced by jury to eight years in jail for shooting dead a man he believed was stealing his cache of truffles.