Serbia vs Portugal Preview and Prediction - Aug. 29 | 2025 EuroBasket

Serbia will take on Portugal on August 29 as Nikola Jokic and Co. look to extend their stellar run in EuroBasket 2025. After posting a perfect record in their exhibition games leading up to the tournament, Serbia has started on the right foot with...

SJM to expand Hotel Lisboa with acquisition of former gaming space

SJM Holdings has announced plans to expand its flagship Hotel Lisboa property in Macau by acquiring approximately 7,504 square metres of former gaming space from its controlling shareholder, Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, S.A. (STDM),...

Video. Rua do Século in Lisbon closed due to fire in abandoned building

A Rua do Século, in Lisbon, is closed due to a fire that broke out today in a building near 9 p.m., the Lisbon Fire Brigade confirmed. The fire on the roof of the building, which was under renovation, began around 8:55 p.m., is now extinguished,...

W&M Men's Basketball’s Matteus Case Signs Professional Deal in Portugal

(Tribe Athletics) WILLIAMSBURG — Recent William & Mary graduate Matteus Case signed a professional contract with Vitória S.C. in Portugal. Case was a key fixture with the Tribe over his three seasons. He started 31 of his 90 career appearances and...

New Paper Explains What Caused the 18th-Century Lisbon Earthquake

The devastating earthquake that hit Lisbon, Portugal in 1755 fueled de-Christianization in Europe. Satirical French writer Voltaire, writing just after the disaster that killed tens of thousands of people, wondered, “Was there more vice in Lisbon,...

SJM Resorts to acquire former gaming areas at Hotel Lisboa

SJM Holdings Limited announced in a statement yesterday that its subsidiary SJM Resorts has entered into a promissory agreement with controlling shareholder Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, S.A. (STDM) to acquire around 7,504 square...

UK tourists warned of major disruption to Portugal holiday's for 'rest of 2025'

UK holidaymakers planning to travel to Portugal in the coming months could face airport disruptions as ground handling staff threaten strike action from September until the start of 2026. The Metallurgical and Related Industries Union (SIMA) at...

Serbia vs. Portugal preview: Serbians continue EuroBasket group play on Friday

The Serbia men’s national team plays Portugal in EuroBasket 2025 on Friday. Here is the preview:When: Friday, Aug. 29 at 2:15 p.m. ETWhere: Arena Riga, Riga, LatviaHow to watch: Stream on Courtside 1891The Serbians are looking to get to 2-0 after...

Lisbon Marching Band preparing for season

The sounds of varying band instruments could be heard from the parking lot as Lisbon High School marching band members got to work rehearsing ahead of Sauerkraut Days. From Monday to Friday, the group of around two dozen rehearsed songs, learned...

Five-million-year-old fissure discovered off Portugal could explain Lisbon's major earthquakes

Published on 28/08/2025 - 16:28 GMT+2 For decades, geologists have struggled to explain the massive earthquakes which struck Lisbon in 1755 and 1969. Now a fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente (Sagres)...

Luca Guadagnino-Produced ‘Afonso’s Smile’ Explores a Gay Teen’s Coming of Age in Post-Revolution Portugal

Award-winning Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues (“Will-O’-the-Wisp”) is developing his next feature, the Luca Guadagnino-produced “Afonso’s Smile,” a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who discovers his sexuality amid the upheaval of the...

Israeli-Organized Music Festival in Portugal Canceled Amid BDS Threats

An Israeli-organized music festival set to open in Portugal on Thursday was canceled after one of the latest anti-Israel campaigns by the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement pressured local authorities to intervene. “It is with the...

New coach, new class for Lisbon FB

Lisbon’s Quinn Coleman (No. 5) tries to advance the football down the field against Highland. Lisbon has been to the playoffs five straight seasons, and in 19 of the past 23 years. All as a Class A program. Now the Lions are Class 1A for the first...

ZeroUSV Deploys Vessel to NATO’s Largest UxS Testing Exercise in Portugal">

The Plymouth-based firm has been competitively selected by the Royal Navy to send one of its 12-meter “Oceanus12 class” USVs to REPMUS_Dynamic Messenger (DYMS) 2025, a three-week exercise program hosted by the Portuguese Navy off the Tróia...

Lisbon Metro strike

The strike will take place from 5:00am until 10:00am for operations workers, from 7:00am until 12:00pm for office workers, from 7:30am until 12:30pm for fixed and administrative workers, and from 2:00am until 7:00am for night and track workers,...

Portugal defense spending at 2% GDP

Estimates published by NATO indicate that Portugal should reach the target of allocating 2% of its GDP to defense this year, after the government brought this target forward to 2025, up from 1.58% in 2024 and 1.33% in 2023. These are still...

Israeli-run music festival in Portugal forced to cancel following intense BDS campaign

New children’s librarian at Lisbon Public Library

Meredith Nehring is the new children’s librarian at Lisbon Public Library. Nehring was hired back in June of this year and has been holding the children’s storytime at the gazebo in downtown Lisbon. “What I’ve loved about this community so far is...

Portugal: 5% at risk of poverty did not have complete meals in 2024

In Portugal, 5.1% of the population at risk of poverty in 2024 did not have regular access to a complete meal, a percentage below the European Union average, Eurostat announced today. The European Union Statistics Office (Eurostat) reported that...

Europe’s greatest surf destination has been crowned – and it’s not Portugal

When you think of top-tier surfing destinations, you probably think of Hawaii, Indonesia or Portugal. But according to hospitality group Accor, which has just dropped its 2025 Surf Index, Europe is full of surprising spots to catch a wave. From...