Among those surfers riding the crest of a wave are Fionn Rogers at Mullaghmore Head in Ireland, Shane Dorian and Peyo Lizarazu at the Belharra break in France, and Joackim Guichard at Praia da Batata beach in Portugal ...
Residents of Foz de Douro, Porto, watch stormy Atlantic waves roll into the bay on Monday ...
paradise after low pressure system stirs up huge waves Professional surfers have flocked to the Atlantic coastlines of France, Cornwall, Ireland and Portugal to ride waves up to 18 metres high caused by a low pressure system dubbed "the black swell". South African big wave rider Grant "Twiggy" Baker was joined on Tuesday by Portuguese, French and American surfers at the Belharra break off the coast...
An estimated 10,000 people attend Benfica's Estádio da Luz in Lisbon to say their goodbyes to Eusébio ...
Hundreds of football fans, former players and the Portuguese prime minister arrive at the Lumiar cemetery in Lisbon for Eusébio's funeral. ...
Fans in Lisbon, at his place of birth in Mozambique, and Gordon Banks, Alex Stepney and José Mourinho give their reactions to Eusébio's death ...
s main roads, and the cortege stopped for a ceremony at the city hall. Earlier in the day, dozens of dignitaries and hundreds of fans, some weeping, filed past the coffin at the Estádio da Luz, the stadium of Benfica, Eusébio's longtime club. Some 10,000 fans at the Stadium of Light cheered and sang when the coffin was placed in the centre of the pitch. The government declared three days of national...
s president, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, addressed the nation on television to praise the "affability and humility" of a man who never let stardom go to his head despite being one of the game's most prolific goal scorers. "His talent brought joy for entire generations, even those who didn't live through the most glorious moments of his career," he said. Eusébio emerged as football's popularity was exploding...
Little-seen images of the Portuguese football legend Eusébio, who has died aged 71 Jonny Weeks ...
s legendary coach Béla Guttmann, and he was so impressed with what he heard that the following week he flew to Mozambique and persuaded Eusébio's family to let him sign for Benfica. This happened right under the noses of Benfica's rivals, Sporting, who disputed the legality of the transfer. Such was the ill-feeling between the two Lisbon clubs that, on Eusébio's arrival in Portugal in December...
The star of Portugal's team that lit up the 1966 World Cup before losing to England in the semi-final has died ...
s cabinet of the austerity-fixated Wolfgang Schäuble is a tragedy for the eurozone periphery Wolfgang Schäuble is back on his throne. Confirmed as finance minister in Angela Merkel's new cabinet, his commandments will be as keenly followed in the corridors of Brussels as in Berlin. Such is the power of Germany's economy that Schäuble holds a key vote, and in many instances a veto, when the eurozone's...
s, soon realised that the future of his venture depended on what happened abroad. Debt and austerity measures were threatening to swamp his business in Lisbon, Oporto and on the Algarve coast. So in 2010 he opened a branch in Paris, and another one in São Paulo, Brazil, the following year. In 2012 he opted for Caracas and Luanda, the capital cities of Venezuela and Angola, respectively. He told them...
deteriorated' Namibia: president warns civil servants to stop sabotaging government projects Namibia's founding president Sam Nujoma warned civil servants to stop sabotaging the government's socio-economic development programmes. He referred to dissenting civil servants as "elements of Koevoet", a paramilitary-trained police counter insurgency unit in south-west Africa during the Namibian independence...
s recent exit from a year-long recession. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said on Friday that weakening growth prospects showed the country would struggle to improve its financial stability and generate new jobs. It said: "The downgrade reflects our opinion that the Netherlands' growth prospects are now weaker than we had previously anticipated, and the real GDP per capita trend growth rate is persistently...
d like to see in the future is a joint investigation team which comes under the European community. It is a possibility legally, and we're working together at a political level and at a police and judicial level to see how we can construct that. "There are two separate inquiries with a different focus – we've got one particular set of lines of inquiry and they have a different one. But it's important...
s policymakers insist the eurozone as a whole does not face a threat of falling prices. Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, told an audience of German co-operative banks yesterday: "To say it very clearly: the European Central Bank council does not expect a deflation scenario." But the very fact that Weidmann, who is known for his fierce anti-inflation stance, felt forced to make such a...
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Brazilian surfer Carlos Burle is waiting to find out if he has surfed the world's largest wave ...
s Andrew Cotton and Brazil's Carlos Burle wait to hear if they've broken world record riding waves of around 80ft While many Europeans were battening down the hatches and heading indoors until the storm known as Saint Jude had passed, a group of surfers in Portugal made their way out into the ocean to catch what may be some of the biggest waves ever ridden. But it was also a day of high drama as a...