11.  The court battles from a seemingly endless German drug case reached the Portuguese capital on the eve of the championship.

12.  The Portuguese capital outbid Budapest and the Swedish city of Borlange.

13.  The Mexican president is to sign a free-trade accord on the sidelines of an EU summit meeting in the Portuguese capital.

14.  The signing was announced late Tuesday after a day of talks in the Portuguese capital between club officials and the Argentinian-born coach who is a naturalized Chilean.

15.  The tough, hilly course, winding through a forest on the outskirts of the Portuguese capital, should suit Ullrich and Virenque.

16.  Train service between Madrid and the Portuguese capital Lisbon was suspended Tuesday due to a strike by rail workers in Portugal, the Spanish state railway said.

17.  Both Mussa and Israeli officials said last week the meeting would take place on the sidelines of the conference starting Monday in the Portuguese capital.

18.  The talks were originally scheduled for the Portuguese capital of Lisbon but Washington informed the two parties of the change in plan last week.

19.  They were all to be housed in the same university hostel in the Portuguese capital.

20.  Unless certain guarantees are made by Friday morning, Weah wrote, he would not make the trip to the Portuguese capital.