Portugal’s food and safety authority ASAE has offered 10 tons of meat to Lisbon Zoo which gratefully has been accepted.
The meaty bonus will feed the Zoo’s carnivores for more than two months.
A woman has died having been hit by a motorbike which then crashed, severely injuring the driver and pillion passenger.
The accident happened early on Saturday morning near Montenegro in Faro on the access road to the airport and Motorcycle Festival,
Seville has created an impressive network of safe cycle lanes covering 80 kms, transforming the city into the cycling capital of southern Europe.
The lanes traverse the old town over narrow lanes as well as the ringroad where they are segregated from traffic by both a kerb raised to pavement level and a waist-high fence.
Scientific advisers to the UK Department of Health have warned about the consequences of consuming too much sugar.
They would like the Government to instruct people of all ages to reduce the sugar in their diets and opt instead for fibrous foods, such as fruit, vegetables and wholegrain bread and cereals.
Recycled plastic bottles could be used to pave roads as the Dutch city of Rotterdam says it is considering a trial of the different road surface.
A Dutch construction company, Volker Wessels, claims the results from using recycled plastic shows the surface needs less maintenance than asphalt and could ensure greater temperature extremes.
The Italian government is sitting on billions of loot, all seized from the mafia.
Authorities have acquired a massive portfolio of assets and cash after seizing them from mafia members. Alongside the portfolio, however, is the problem of managing them.
After Spain spent €1bn to build an airport which was scarcely used, they sold it to the Chinese for €10,000.
Ciudad Real airport, in central Spain 100 miles south of Madrid, will be converted by the new owners into a global freight hub for the Chinese market.
An annual report by Eurojust has shown that Portugal is among the European countries that most request information on suspected terrorists - with Spain, Germany and the UK, being the others.
