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- Spanish Developers Use Offers to Ease Pain
- By Ben Harding and Clara Vilar MADRID (Reuters UK) - Spanish builders are tempting cagey homebuyers with free cars, mortgage holidays and hard cash as they try to lift the gloom shrouding the crisis-hit housing sector. Some are also diving into the rental market. At last...
- News items 2008-04-13
- Book review – Winter in madrid
- Spain's a strange and interesting place. It was a rehearsal ground for part of World War II; it suffered both from both fascist and communist tyranny in the course of a single decade. Then it stayed out of the war and stayed locked in...
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- The Interpreter's Tale
- The pickpockets of Barcelona are justly famed for their ability to extract whatever they want from anywhere; why are they suddenly stealing cheap cellphones in preference to laden purses? What does this have to do with Gaudi's fantastic unfinished cathedral, with mega-yachts, with the long-ago...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
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- Blogger-critic of Cuba honoured
- European News IN BRIEF *MADRID A Cuban blogger who has voiced sharp criticism of the Havana government was due to receive a Spanish journalism award yesterday. However, Cuban officials were unlikely to let Yoani Sanchez, 32, come to Madrid to pick up the Ortega y Gasset Prize...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Lakers get 'A' on chemistry lesson
- LOS ANGELES -- He looks like the unlikeliest of stars. His shaggy hair, curly and parted in the middle, falling over his ears, has stylists all over the country sharpening their shears. His wispy, untrimmed beard looks as though it never met a razor it liked....
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Sevilla crank up Champions League pressure on Atletico
- MADRID (AFP) — Argentine midfielder Fazio was Sevilla's hero scoring twice as the club boosted their chances of a second successive season in the Champions League with a 3-0 win at rivals Racing Santander on Wednesday. Fazio scored in both halves as Sevilla leapfrogged Racing into fifth and...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Spain's 'calendar girls' turn for help to porn website
- MADRID (AFP) — Seven Spanish mothers who posed virtually nude for a calendar to fund a children's centre, but were left with huge debts when it did not sell, have had help from an unlikely source - a porn website. "This morning, the famous 'mothers of Serradilla' announced...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Former Valencia defender spills beans on Barca's bonus
- MADRID (AFP) — Former defender Fernando Giner and his Valencia teammates received a "substantial" cash incentive from Barcelona to perform well against Deportivo La Coruna in a 1994 Spanish league match. "Obviously there was a bonus, and a sizeable one, from Barcelona," he revealed in an interview with...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Capello to face trial over false testimony
- ROME (AFP) — England coach Fabio Capello will be tried for false testimony and obstructing the course of justice by Rome judicial authorities, Italian news agency Ansa reported on Wednesday. Capello and the general manager of Juventus Antonio Giraudo have been charged following testimonies they gave to the...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Spanish cardinal's niece in nude 'hypocrisy' protest
- MADRID (AFP) — The niece of the conservative head of Spain's Catholic Church has bared her breasts in a bestselling Spanish soft porn magazine in protest at the "hypocrisy" of her uncle. Magdalena Rouco Hernandez appears topless on the cover of Interviu as well as in eight full-sized...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award
- (NYSE: IBM) -- At the IEEE International MagneticsConference today in Madrid, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the DanielE. Noble Award for his fundamental contributions to the development ofmagneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random accessmemory. Dr. Parkin's innovations in memory technologies...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Tottenham in talks with Barcelona over Eto'o - report
- MADRID (AFP) — English first division side Tottenham are in talks with Barcelona over the Spanish giant's Cameroonian international striker Samuel Eto'o, sports daily Marca reported Wednesday. "Tottenham's next target is clear, it is Samuel Eto'o," the newspaper said, adding the English club has already approached Barcelona "to...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Chelsea offers 70 million euros for Real's Ramos - report
- MADRID (AFP) — Chelsea have offered Real Madrid 70 million euros (108 million dollars) for their defender Sergio Ramos, daily newspaper El Mundo reported Wednesday. Real, who clinched their second straight Spanish league title over the weekend, was "reflecting on the offer" for the 21-year-old Spanish international who...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Owen ready to commit to Newcastle
- Kevin Keegan's sense of deflation at Newcastle United following Monday's 2-0 home defeat to Chelsea should be eased by the telephone call Michael Owen's representatives are expected to receive from St James' Park within the next 72 hours. Newcastle are to open contract extension discussions with the man Keegan has...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Owen ready to commit to Newcastle
- Kevin Keegan's sense of deflation at Newcastle United following Monday's 2-0 home defeat to Chelsea should be eased by the telephone call Michael Owen's representatives are expected to receive from St James' Park within the next 72 hours. Newcastle are to open contract extension discussions with the man Keegan has...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Owen ready to commit to Newcastle
- Kevin Keegan's sense of deflation at Newcastle United following Monday's 2-0 home defeat to Chelsea should be eased by the telephone call Michael Owen's representatives are expected to receive from St James' Park within the next 72 hours. Newcastle are to open contract extension discussions with the man Keegan has...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Cyclist Vila tests positive for banned substance
- MADRID (AFP) — Spanish cyclist Patxi Vila of the Lampre team tested positive in March for testosterone and was dropped from the list of racers who were pre-registered for the Tour of Italy, sports daily AS reported Tuesday. The 32-year-old tested positive in a surprise drugs test carried...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- US warns Asian Development Bank it risks becoming 'irrelevant'
- MADRID (AFP) — The United States, the Asian Development Bank's second-biggest donor, warned the institution on Tuesday it risked becoming irrelevant if it fails to adapt to the region's rapid economic expansion. "It's important for the ADB to stick to its overall mission, but at the same time...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- ADB to provide 500 million dollars to combat food crisis
- MADRID (AFP) — The Asian Development Bank will provide 500 million dollars (320 million euros) in immediate assistance to member nations hit hardest by soaring food prices, the head of the bank announced Tuesday. ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank would also double lending for agriculture in...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Real set to parade football Liga trophy as Barca visit
- MADRID (AFP) — Real Madrid are set to rub salt into the wounds of arch rivals by parading their 31st Spanish league trophy when they host Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Wednesday. Real fans waited until the early hours to celebrate with the players at Cibeles...
- Articles 2008-05-06
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