Portugal Colonial - The latest news from Lisbon, Portugal and Europe, in six languages, around the clock every day

Overshadowed by Bayern Munich's explosive start to the season, RB Leipzig are quietly putting together an impressive opening to their Bundesliga campaign.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has opened an inquiry after former women's captain Jahanara Alam accused former and serving officials of sexual harassment.

Bo Nix threw a touchdown pass and the Denver Broncos stretched their NFL win streak to seven games by defeating the Las Vegas Raiders 10-7 on Thursday.

Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam early Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188.

US forces on Thursday struck another alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three people, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from Washington's controversial anti-narcotics campaign to at least 70.

Ultra-short video series "Strange Mirror of Mountains and Seas" is filled with dragon-like monsters, handsome protagonists and plenty of melodrama -- almost all of it, including the lifelike human characters, created by artificial intelligence.

US President Donald Trump hosted all five Central Asian leaders on Thursday for the first time, a few months after they held separate summits with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping.

With bright blue eyes and a dagger tattoo on his temple, Mykola Lebedev has the gaze of a child but the determination of an adult: the 18-year-old Ukrainian recruit is about to throw his first grenade.

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help solve one of climate science's great mysteries.

Asian stocks tracked Wall Street losses Friday as investors weighed weak US jobs data against Federal Reserve signals suggesting no more interest rate cuts this year.

In a faux castle atop a Los Angeles hill, a small film crew with their cameras flipped sideways squeeze into a bedroom and shoot a raunchy affair scene, under the gaze of their Chinese producer.

Which EU countries face the most pressure from migration? The question is proving deeply divisive as capitals scramble to agree by year-end how to redistribute at least 30,000 asylum seekers across the bloc.

US right-wing influencers falsely linked New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to the Islamic State group, amplifying a fabricated statement that garnered millions of views on social media, researchers said Thursday.

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is due to meet his ally Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, for the first time since the American president's re-election, as he seeks a waiver on US sanctions on Russian oil.

Travelers across the United States were left scrambling to rebook flights as the government shutdown heaps pressure on the country's air traffic control system, prompting hundreds of Friday flight cancellations at major American airports.

Manchester City host Liverpool this weekend in the latest chapter of a compelling rivalry that has dominated the Premier League for nearly a decade -- but this time both clubs are playing catch-up.

US lawmakers wrote to Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew on Thursday requesting he sit for an interview about his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A US man charged with using a sandwich to assault a law enforcement officer was acquitted Thursday after a jury decided that charges brought by President Donald Trump's prosecutors were baloney.

For decades, being laid to rest near the likes of The Doors singer Jim Morrison at the Pere-Lachaise cemetery or the writer Simone de Beauvoir across the River Seine in Montparnasse has been a pipe dream for Parisians.

Two British drug convicts including a grandmother on death row flew home early on Friday, as part of a deal to return them on humanitarian grounds.

Former NFL star Antonio Brown was extradited from Dubai to the United States to face a charge of attempted murder stemming from a shooting in May, the Miami Police Department said Thursday.

New initiative in the Konkouré Delta builds on Senegal's success, advancing coastal restoration, biodiversity, and community resilience across West Africa.

Chilean far-right presidential candidate Johannes Kaiser defended the use of lethal force against criminals Thursday in an AFP interview, and said he would deport migrants with criminal records to El Salvador's brutal anti-gang prison.

A representative of a pharmaceutical company fainted Thursday during a White House announcement on slashing the cost of weight-loss drugs, forcing President Donald Trump to suspend the event.

NFL star cornerback Sauce Gardner will join the Indianapolis Colts in Berlin on Sunday to face Atlanta while the New England Patriots test Baker Mayfield's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra returned from the NBA team's Wednesday night game in Denver to find his Florida home engulfed in a blaze that authorities said took eight hours to extinguish.

Tesla shareholders on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach $1 trillion.

World leaders attending a climate summit in Brazil launched a fund Thursday to save the world's forests, quickly raking in over $5 billion in pledges to reward tropical countries for not chopping down trees.

Aston Villa beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday in a match dominated by tight security measures in Birmingham with travelling fans barred over safety concerns.

UK police made six arrests as a high-risk football match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Aston Villa passed largely peacefully under heavy security in Birmingham on Thursday.

The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Thursday to require passport applicants to be identified on the document by their biological sex at birth rather than their gender identity.

Japan coach Eddie Jones has no doubt Ireland can come through a "difficult little period" under Andy Farrell but warned it may take time.