The social media company says that it has conducted its first test flight over the UK by a drone powered by solar.

The unmanned drone is designed to carry internet signals in the sky and beam them by laser down to people.

The new chief financial officer at Google is to receive $70 million over the course of two years.

Ruth Porat will be given stock valued at $65 million, a signing bonus of $5 million and a modest initial base salary of $650,000.

The emblematic black vulture is back in southern Portugal after a 40 year absence and is nesting at two artificial sites at the Herdade da Contenda in Moura, Alentejo.

As this large scavenger has been absent from southern Portugal for so long, a project project to encourage the black vulture's return was set up and seems to have been successful.

Algarve Social Democrats have written to the Minister of Internal Affairs in an attempt to get the police to back off during this year's Faro Bike Festival.

"Does it make sense, as has happened, that bikers coming to the festival, whether from within Portugal or from abroad, are pulled over several times in the police STOP operation?" read the letter.

Portugal's Visão magazine has gained access to a Tax Authority audit report which has confirmed the creation of a warning system to prevent unauthorised access to the tax data of a limited number of special taxpayers including politicians, businessmen and sports personalities - the 'VIP List.'

The magazine revealed today that the report confirmed the creation of the VIP List whose members have been protected by a warning system if their tax data is accessed by tax office staff.

The gradual decline in unemployment from 2013 has been achieved by ignoring the increasing number of unemployed that are not recognised by the statistics.

For the first time, the unofficial unemployment level has exceeded the official version, according to the Crisis Barometer report entitled "Crisis and the labour market: less unemployment without more jobs" released today.

Each person in the EU was responsible for 481 kilos of municipal waste in 2013.

While this seems excessive, it is lower than the peak of 527 kilos in 2002.

The Algarve is the cheapest destination for last minute holidaymakers with the fall in the euro against the pound adding to the appeal for the British.

Tenerife, Cyprus and the Algarve are considered the top three European hot spots this Easter with the Algarve ranking as the cheapest beach destination for a family holiday.