Jose Manuel de Mello, Portuguese businessman, dies
Jose Manuel de Mello, a leading Portuguese entrepreneur who lost much of his family's banking-to-shipbuilding conglomerate in the country's 1974 Carnation Revolution but later rebuilt his business empire, died Wednesday, his company said.
The Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate Jose Saramago died today at age 87 on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, where he lived, said a statement from the Foundation Saramago.The author of ``The Stone Raft'', Jose de Sousa Saramago was a writer, journalist and playwright Portuguese.