Longtime expatriate Paula Rego, 70, still paints her Portuguese homeland
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In the 1950s, when Paula Rego was 17, her father gave her some advice. "Leave Portugal," he said.
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In a villa overlooking the Indian Ocean, Teresa Simoes Ferreira grew up in the segregated privilege of Portuguese-ruled Mozambique where she accompanied her father on medical rounds in poor rural areas.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Philisiwe Zulu was 51 when she got the call from the spirits of her ancestors.
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It's hard to be a successful elder statesman when you're only 51 and your party crashed to electoral defeat after a devastating terrorist attack blamed on al-Qaida. But former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar ...
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Thinking about Renata Tebaldi, who died yesterday at the age of 82, takes me back to the winter of 1999 when I visited the Italian diva at her apartment in Milan.
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Seventy years after he was shot  during the Spanish civil war, 90-year-old Leandro Saun turns  red with anger when talking about a conflict that still divides  Spain.
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Corina Morariu made it back to a Grand Slam doubles final four years after her last one. A lot has happened in between.
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I spent my first week in Madrid with friends in Moncloa, a trendy, university-dominated neighborhood, experiencing the young, exuberant culture of a country catching up after 40 years of a repressive ...
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Artur Rego discusses a ruling by Portuguese justice officials that Madeleine McCann's parents, Gerry and Kate, do not have to be interviewed again by police in the Algarve.
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When 26-year-old Nuno Caria got a lizard tattooed on his shoulder the only person to disapprove was his mother. But even that reaction was short-lived.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on state television Monday that he does not intend to cling to power forever or stand in the way of a younger generation, but invoked the example of a renowned Brazilian architect who is still working at 100.
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"My terror is that we will reach old age abandoned"  As a police officer, Luigi Marzano was used to being in command. He still walks ramrod straight, but at 97 and deep into retirement, his memory is weakening and he has turned over command of his household to a virtual stranger half his age.Rita Duda, who left Ukraine in search of work, lays out caffe latte and cookies each day for Marzano's breakfast, shops for him, and, every afternoon after his nap accompanies him to a bench on the corner, which he shares with ladies and gentlemen in their 70s and 80s while their caretakers _ Ukrainians, Moldavians, Poles and Romanians _ catch up on gossip. Read more
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DOSSEYE REFUGEE CAMP, Chad  - Adama Abdulai is 30 but she looks a decade older.
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one of the world&#39;s most remote inhabited settlements - came yesterday from a woman who says her island childhood was
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It was 77 degrees outside. Not a cloud in the sky. Just the sort of weekday that 65-year-old Ho-Mei Chen once imagined she'd be spending in the park with her grandchildren. Or on which 68-year-old hospital administrator Marie Warren once pictured herself tending to her begonias. Or on which...
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The Italian turns 32 todayâ¦ but his present is still being preparedâ¦
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New Zealand's oldest immigrant, 102-year-old Briton Eric King-Turner, sailed into Wellington on Wednesday amid a media frenzy sparked by his decision to retire to the other side of the world.