In a vote of no confidence held on Tuesday, the country's parliament voted by 123 to votes to 107 to bring down the minority government and force Mr Passos Coelho's resignation. The collapse was widely expected after the country's three main left opposition forces - the moderate Socialists, Communists and radical Left Bloc - agreed a historic coalition in a bid to form an alternative government last week.

Portugal's Leftist anti-austerity forces have vowed to reverse key economic policies of the previous government, setting Lisbon up for a battle with the EU only a year after it exited a €78 billion bail-out programme.

Ben Nasr Mehdi, a Tunisian who was first arrested in Italy in 2007 and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for plotting terror attacks with an Islamic State-linked group, was caught trying to re-enter the country last month. Authorities discovered him among 200 migrants who were rescued at sea and taken to the island of Lampedusa. Although he gave a false name, migration officers identified him through finger print records, the Independent reports.

German channel n-tv claims the Italian government initially tried to hide the story to avoid “panic” and “scare tactics”. The news did not emerge until several days after Mehdi had been detained last week. Mehdi was then interrogated for several days before being deported back to Tunisia, where he was handed over to local police. The revelation will likely add to fears that Islamist terrorists are using the migrant crisis as a means to enter Europe.

The world has largely stood by as a dangerous tide of intolerance has washed over the region, according to a new study by the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. The study includes disturbing data about the plunging numbers of Christians in the part of the world that gave birth to the faith, and makes a dire prediction of what could happen.

“It’s an answer that depends on the response of the world,” Edward Clancy, director of outreach for the United Kingdom-based Aid to the Church in Need, told FoxNews.com. “What response is there going to be toward us if we act?”

“Unless the global community gets involved, we will witness the loss of Christian witnesses in a land that is biblically significant,” Elijah Brown, executive vice president for 21st Century Wilberforce, told FoxNews.com. He noted that Iraq's second-largest city, once home to a thriving Christian community as old as the faith itself, has now been overrun by ISIS and purged of Christians.

As of September, there were 59,737,817 beneficiaries getting Social Security or disability benefits, according to the SSA. At the same time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 148,800,000 people who had either a full- or part-time job in the United States. That means there were only 2.49 people with jobs for each of the 59,737,817 Social Security and disability beneficiaries.

At the same time, there were only 121,839,000 people with full-time jobs in the United States in September, according to BLS. Those 121,839,000 full-time job holders equaled about 2.04 for each of the 59,737,817 people getting Social Security or disability benefits.

The rate will be allowed to fluctuate a maximum 5 percent on either side of a daily fixing, according to CFETS. “This is an important step in strengthening bilateral economic and trade connections between China and Switzerland,” the People’s Bank of China said in a statement on its website on Monday. The link will help lower conversion costs and facilitate the use of both currencies in bilateral trade, it added.

The announcement, which confirmed an earlier report, comes as the IMF prepares to meet this month to review its Special Drawing Rights. The executive board of the Washington-based institution will gauge whether the Chinese currency has fulfilled the criterion of being "freely usable," after rejecting its bid in 2010. The other major currencies that can be directly converted into yuan are the US, Australian and New Zealand dollars, the British pound, the Japanese yen and the euro.

Even though Europe was “the most ageing continent”, families are not sufficiently in the focus of European policies because that subject is “not PC”, Orbán said. “We want to restore families to the focus of European politics,” Orbán said, warning that “Europe’s civilisation and culture are at stake”.

This sounds like scaremongering, but the United States is facing a similar problem. It turns out that 75 percent of American youth would be rejected by the US military, for reasons ranging from tattoos to ADHD. But the main reason is obesity: Americans are too fat to fight. And why are they obese? Probably because of an unsettled family life. Is anyone talking about this? No. America also needs to restore families to the focus of its politics.

More than 450 retired generals and admirals in a lobby group called Mission Readiness have an answer for them: young people are “too fat to fight”. In a 2009 report, “Ready, Willing, And Unable To Serve”, they said that “The best aircraft, ships and satellite-guided weaponry alone will not be enough to keep our country strong”. The US also needs smart, fit, law-abiding youths. And it cannot find enough of them.

What do the military brass recommend to increase levels of education, keep kids from getting in trouble with the law and keep them healthy? They tiptoe around the elephant in the room. Instead of realising that young Americans need the strength and security that comes from intact biological families, they recommend better early education programs, better school meals, and better physical education programs.

But the best early education program is a stable home with a loving mother and father. What these panjandrums really mean, but are perhaps too politically correct to say, is that America’s national security is at risk because America’s families are dysfunctional.

We find it strange that we so openly welcome Chinese warships into our harbors and treat them like royalty …while there are such high tensions between the two nations with a very real chance of World War 3 unfolding. Is this a sign that this visit is much more than we are being officially told?

First of all, let's take a look at this Chinese Navy warship that has docked at the Mayport Naval Base in Florida. Does anybody else find it strange that, despite the heavy tension now going on between China and the US in the South China Seas and the economy, we are on such friendly terms with China here?

Does that fact tell us that, despite what we might want to believe, China and the US are 'playing for the same team'? With China now buying up much of America, is it just that the 'new boss is in town'?

“To confront climate change, we all have to embrace two ideas. They are simple and familiar ideas, but that does not make them any less true. First: We are all in this together. Second: The longest journey begins with a simple step.” – Bill Nye

On November 10, Bill Nye will release a new book titled “Unstoppable.” As only Bill Nye can, he uses the book to explain the science behind climate change, debunks popular myths, and asks readers to take action in their own lives to create a sustainable future. The book is shot through with optimism, but Nye has no illusions about what lies ahead. The message is simple: Climate change is real; humans are causing it; and we have no choice but to build a better and cleaner world.

“My goal is to change the world! Really, that’s what I’m trying to do. Obviously, this book isn’t going to change the world, but it is part of the bigger idea that we all have to think optimistically about this. We’ve got to go into this knowing we have a hard challenge but that we’re going to win this fight, and we’re going to save the earth for humanity.”

France’s top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a climate rescue pact, warned Sunday of looming planetary “catastrophe” if negotiations fail. “It is life on our planet itself which is at stake,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists as ministers and climate envoys from 70 countries met for pre-summit talks to iron out tough political questions.

With the key UN conference just three weeks away, he also announced that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would attend the November 30 opening. Russia, a major oil producer, is seen as a deal-maker or -breaker in the years-long attempt to negotiate the world’s first truly universal pact to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.

“There is absolute urgency,” said Fabius, to achieve the UN goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels. The UN’s climate science panel has warned of an average temperature rise of “four, five, six degrees, if we do not act extremely quickly,” he said.

The countdown to the United Nation’s Paris Climate summit is approaching and the public is once again being warned that this meeting will represent the “last chance” for nations to act on “global warming” before it’s allegedly too late. Media reports are touting “Paris is the last chance”.

We are also being told once again that the UN climate summit in Paris later this month, will be humanity’s “last chance” to “solve” global warming — or else. The United Nations Climate Change Conference is having its 21st meeting in Paris towards the end of 2015. (Hence COP21 or conference of parties). We’ve been told this is the ‘last effective opportunity’ to keep global warming to ‘a limit safe for humanity’.

Here is a sampling of previous “last chance” deadlines that turned out to be — well — not the “last chance” after all. We are reassured by the fact there have been previous last chances, and this website predicts that COP21 will not be the last ‘last chance’.

Last chance! – Bonn, 2001

Last chance! – Montreal, 2005

Last chance! – Bali, 2007

Last chance! – Poznan, Poland, 2008

Last chance! – Copenhagen, 2009

Last chance! – Cancun, 2010

Last chance! – Doha, 2012

They have been devised by Brussels bureaucrats who are hoping to achieve an effective 'migrant swap' by persuading African nations to take back unskilled workers who have smuggled their way into Europe. In return, EU nations would agree to relaxing conditions currently restricting skilled Africans from migrating to the continent to study and work.

The secret plot would also see Brussels provide cash incentives to African governments if they helped speed up the process of deporting illegal immigrants from Europe. But it was savaged by political opponents last night, who accused EU leaders of "sheer madness". UKIP leader Nigel Farage raged: "The EU's way to stop illegal mass migration from Africa is to make it legal. This is sheer madness."

"The European Union can break apart," he said in an interview with the German news agency DPA. "This can happen incredibly fast if the rule becomes to shut people out, both internally and externally, instead of maintaining solidarity." His comments refer to the decision made by some member states to implement stricter controls along their borders, thereby forcing other countries to take on more of the burden of the refugee crisis.

The politician said it was possible member states would start shutting down borders completely, thereby putting an end to the Schengen free-travel zone that has been one of the defining freedoms offered to citizens of the EU. "We have perhaps only a few months time (before this happens)," Asselborn warned. The EU is in a "very, very critical situation."

Strontium-90 mimics calcium. It ends up getting deposited in human bones, where the radiation wreaks havoc with bone marrow, causing bone cancers and blood cancers like Leukemia. The radiation in the fish is so terrible that wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, Pacific Herring and Canadian white fish are being found bloody, with cancerous tumors throughout their bodies.

Alaska salmon as well as all types of Pacific seafood (shrimp, clams, scallops, squid, etc) are being tainted with radioactive contamination. So are the people who consume them. What do you think happens to people who eat radiation-contaminated food? Worse, what happens to people who eat cancerous tumors without knowing what they are?

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended.

If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.

Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door.

In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.