Goa and Brazil share a few common similarities dating back to the Portuguese colonial rule, of language and football. But on Thursday night, Brazilian Ambassador to Qatar Anuar Nahes highlighted yet another little known artistic link -

Former Federal minister of state for foreign affairs Eduardo Faleiro’s entourage will dock in Oman for two days for the Global Goans convention in the first week of next month.

In Portugal on Monday, Nobel Prize for Literature winner Jose Saramago stated that society would be better off if there was no Bible because it's a "handbook of bad morals."

In Sunday's general election, Portugal's Socialists were leading all parties with 36.8 per cent according to partial results released to the public.

CUNCOLIM: Heta Pandit’s book, Hidden Hands-Masterbuilders of Goa gives an insight into the lives of the artisans-carpenters, masons, stonecutters, roofers, basketweavers, potters, painters and gardeners.

A court in Portugal has banned the sale of a book, written by a police officer who investigated the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, in which it is claimed that the British girl is dead.

Recent research reveals that an experimental drug reduces the risk of stroke in patients with irregular heartbeats by at least three times, compared to the popular drug warfarin.

A female Angolan giraffe (also known as the 'Smoky Giraffe') has been born at the Selwo Adventure Park in Estepona, in the province of Malaga.

The parents of the missing British girl Madeleine McCann are distraught after leaflets were distributed to homes in the village in Central England where they live claiming that they are responsible for their daughter's disappearance.

That is one of the two main scenarios being considered during the hunt for the Arctic Sea cargo ship, which disappeared after leaving the English Channel. The other scenario centres upon a possible commercial dispute. The search continues meanwhile.