Among countless new ‘wearable’ gadgets presented this week at the Mobile World Congress trade fair were monitors that attach to dog or cat collars
Samsung, the world’s biggest seller of smartphones, unveiled a handset that folds open like a book
Spain’s conservative Popular Party has gained its biggest election win ever from voters desperate to end the soaring unemployment in the country.
Spain’s right storms towards a landslide win in Sunday elections, carried by popular anger over an economic slump.
An al-Qaeda suspect plotted to poison tourists’ water supplies to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, a Spanish judge has said.
With its unpaved roads often strewn with litter, the Cova da Moura slum on the outskirts of Lisbon has long been seen as Portugal’s byword for crime and decay — and a place to be avoided. But a local youth group is offering guided tours of the community in the hope of improving its reputation and bringing much-needed business to area shops and restaurants.
Nearly 3 000 firefighters and soldiers on Tuesday battled dozens of wildfires that continued to rage in parched Portugal as police found the charred body an elderly woman near her rural home, emergency services said. Eleven fires were raging out of control in the centre and north of the country.