Portugal must play just like a World Cup semifinalist on Saturday if it wants to make the Euro 2008 finals. But without Cristiano Ronaldo. Portugal is second in top-heavy Group A, but a loss against Belgium at King Baudouin Stadium would leave it with a real struggle.

Real Madrid soccer star and former England captain David Beckham made an television appeal for information relating to missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. Three-year old Madeleine went missing from the Praia da Luz resort in the southern Portuguese region of the Algarve eight days ago. Investigators believe she was kidnapped.

The EU constitutional project will be a subject for the closed-door talks with EU leaders in Portugal, which will be hosted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. Barroso was organizing the May 12-13 meetings in Sintra, on the outskirts of Lisbon, with a "wide open" agenda, Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen said.