An Italian lawyer is taking Emirates airline to court after being obliged to sit next to an overweight passenger on a long flight.
Giorgio Destro, from the northern Italian city of Padua, claims to have had to endure nine hours on a flight in July from Cape Town to Dubai because a considerably heavy man in the seat adjacent to Destro’s window seat was taking up too much of his assigned space.
Ryanair has announced new routes to Faro next summer season with Aberdeen, Cardiff, Hamburg, London, Marseille, Newcastle, Newquay and Wrocław, in Poland, scheduled to open up.
The Irish company's boss Michael O’Leary, still performing at press conferences despite now having a public relations chief, wants to take on TAP which currently flies 9.5 million passengers to and from Portugal and hence is in first place.
The Judicial Police announced the arrest of one of Olhão’s most wanted, for "crimes of a violent nature, including attempted murder, physical violence, using a firearm and theft."
The detainee is a 20-year-old man suspected of several robberies and part of a group that a year ago shot at a man outside the city’s railway station.
Vila Real de Santo António’s council has announced the relaunching of a competition to create boutique hotels in three historic Pombaline buildings in the city centre.
The call for submissions first went out in January this year but a second tender, published in the Official Gazette last week, had to be launched as so far there have been no takers meeting the strict conditions.
A Spanish woman was found dead in Mexico after a failed ransom ordeal.
Maria Villar Galaz, 36, the niece of the president of Spanish Football Federation, had been abducted in Mexico on September 13, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo said.
The European Commission plans to change the way that companies report their profits in an effort to further curb tax avoidance.
The overhaul means that companies would have to calculate profit under common European rules rather than national ones. The objective is to close off the use of crafty cross-border accountancy.
Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, told the United Nations that the UK will ratify the Paris agreement which tackles climate change.
May used her maiden speech to the UN on Tuesday to signal that Britain will take measures after leaving the EU to combat environmental threats.
An Inspector in Portugal’s Judicial Police has been sentenced to five years in prison for warning a gang about police activity as it ran a gold bullion tax fraud scheme.
João de Sousa was suspected of involvement in the illicit sale of gold and has been in custody in Évora prison since 2014.
