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Rewilding Portugal has confirmed the presence of a beaver in Douro International Nature Park: "It is a symbol of hope for nature." After...

David Kirby, 32, who suffered complications from AIDS, is in his hour of death in April 1990. His father, Bill, cradles his head while...

The marble Maria da Fonte Sculpture, by Costa Mota (uncle), stands in the Jardim Teófilo Braga in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon. It represents...

A cork oak is harvested after about 25 years. It grows a thin layer of bark every year. After the bark is removed, it takes about nine...

The portrait of dictator António de Oliveira Salazar was taken down from the headquarters of PIDE, the secret police, on April 25, 1974,...

(Photo from Reddit , 2023) In the heart of Portugal, white olive florets drift like snowflakes to the green and grayish hues of the mossy...

The Vivid Memories of the Future collection was a tribute to couturier Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975), who is credited with introducing...

Bluebells (Photo from Pixabay) Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning,...

Human rights groups believe that China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will in “re-education camps”. There are...

(From Bordalo II's website) Bordalo II remains true to his artistic mission of exposing the devastation and excesses of some lifestyles...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis (2013-2025), riding the bus in Argentina (Photo from South St. Joseph blog,...

(From European Commission website) For the first time, the European Commission has adopted a list of strategic projects to boost domestic strategic raw materials capabilities: 47 projects of which four are in Portugal -- three for lithium and one for copper -- all of which will benefit from "simplified licensing provisions", according to the EC (March 25). The projects in Portugal are listed as Barroso lithium extraction by Savannah Lithium in Boticas, Vila Real District; Li

"Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me, but they never took my spirit! Thank you to all my supporters throughout the world...

A U.K. first edition, hand-set by Virginia Woolf for Hogarth Press, which she and her husband, Leonard, had created to publish her...

Aurelio: "I know I must continue the culture of my grandparents, of my ancestors, and find new ways to express it. Few people know about...

As part of a national day of action on March 15, hundreds in Times Square, New York, demanded the release of pro-Palestinian student...

To the tune of a catchy jingle, a blaring "Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot" would introduce the car dealer's zany late-night television...

"My poetry is an epic of a lesser life. It is not the discovery of a sea route to India. It is the path of the hallway in my house between the room where I write and read and the kitchen. It is domestic. It is feminine." (Photo from Quatro Cinco Um) Adília Lopes lived in her head, writing in a notebook every day, a poem never far away, according to Público (February 20, 2015). Her poems provoked contradictory reactions: surprise, distrust, enthusia

Front row center, from left to right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of Germany (sky blue blazer); CARICOM Chair,...

Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting the footballer...