SPAIN popularity and SPAIN trends

China and Spain on Thursday pledged to expand bilateral cooperation in trade and renewable energy in a bid to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

China and Spain on Thursday pledged to expand bilateral cooperation in trade and renewable energy in a bid to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership.

SOCCER ANGLES:A new book claims the national team’s success has helped to foster a new Spanish identity, writes MICHAEL WALKER

Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynolds said Europe must prepare for Greece to leave the euro to prevent the crisis engulfing other countries such as Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Public corruption investigations and rise in xenophobic parties also noted by State Department

Even in the good, pre-recession days, Catalonia resented sending funds to Madrid and subsidising poorer regions around Spain.

Spain is prepared to provide $24 billion to Bankia, the troubled lender said. Meanwhile, S&P downgraded five Spanish banks.

PARIS  - A busy weekend of friendly action will be the final chance for many players to secure a ticket on the plane for Euro 2012 before the UEFA deadline for squad submissions next Tuesday. Reigning European champions Spain take on Serbia in the Swiss town of St Gallen with a host of fringe players expected to get their chance to impress coach Vicente Del Bosque. With several integral ...

The board of Bankia SA is planning to ask for €19 billion in financial support from the Spanish government, in what could represent the largest ever bank bailout in the country's history.

Pastora Soler said she has been told 'to throw' her entry by bosses of the Spanish state-run broadcaster TVE because they don't want to pay to host the event next year.

COUNTRY doesn't want to win because it would have to fork out to host contest next year

Spain’s reign at the top of world football started four years ago at the European Championship, and some believe the run of good fortune can be traced back to one particular shootout victory over Italy.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Bankia SA is set to ask the state for a more than 15 billion euros ($19 billion) bailout on Friday, marking another rise in the cost of a drawn-out rescue of the country's fourth-biggest bank.

Spain's Eurovision entrant denies reports she was asked not to win by her country's public television channel, claiming she was misquoted.

Decision comes amid reports Spain's fourth largest bank was expected to ask state for a rescue of about $19bn.

Divisions between EU leaders take centre stage in the absence of major economic data• Shares in Bankia suspended• European stock markets open higher9.17am: Shares in Spanish lender Bankia have been suspended "due to circumstances that may affect the normal share trading," the Spanish stock market regulator CMV said this morning.Bankia will ask the government for more than €15bn...

Spain's Eurovision entrant admits her country would struggle to host the event next year if it were to win the competition for the first time in 43 years.

As Spaniards increasingly move their money out of troubled institutions, officials worry about the ripple effect of a full bank run.

It was thought that the Blaugrana might hire the former Spain international's mentor, Marcelo Bielsa, to replace him at the helm, but they have instead gone for his right-hand man

Sovereign debt now trades at a lower price than that of Spain - yet Argentina’s finances are in good shape

Looks like Apple has done it again. The company know for evolutionary products is also notoriously known for not obtaining the matching domain names to the product sometimes until well after the product has launched. According to Patentlyapple.com, Apple has filed at lease two Patents on what is calling the iPen. iPen.com is owned by someone in Istanbul Turkey. The domain name iPen.com was firs...

LONDON (Reuters) - Online gaming firm 888 expects to pay a back-tax bill for its Spanish operations of less than $10 million, as Spain prepares to award its first online betting licenses in June, a source close to the company said.

Spain could learn lessons from Ireland’s handling of its banking crisis, according to economic consultant Peter Bacon, the architect of the National Assets Management Agency (Nama).

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Europe's leaders gather in Brussels under mounting pressure to soften their tough-love approach to the weaker economies among them. With Greece locked in political chaos, much bigger Spain warns it can't keep afloat without help, as stock markets around the world tank over fears the leaders won't have the political will to act....

David Villa was top goalscorer at Euro 2008 as Spain secured a first major championship in 44 years, but the world champions' all-time leading marksman will not be part of next month's title defense in Poland and Ukraine.

Rayo Vallecano star Michu insists he has no offers from Premier League teams but knows an exit is possible this summer. He was the highest scoring midfielder in Spain last season.

There is something unnatural lurking in the waters of the port of Gijon, Spain, and researchers are tracking its every move. It is not some bizarre new form of marine life, but an autonomous robotic fish designed to sense marine pollution, taking to the open waves for the first time...from New Scientist

Spain could learn lessons from Ireland’s handling of its banking crisis, according to economic consultant Peter Bacon, the architect of the National Assets Management Agency. 

SPAIN striker David Villa has been ruled out of Euro 2012 after failing to recover from injury in time

SPAIN striker David Villa has been ruled out of Euro 2012 after failing to recover from injury in time

It's April when I ask Makielab founder Alice Taylor how it's going with Makie, their line of customizable dolls. "It's going great, with the caveat of the usual (and some unusual) last minute crazy." That crazy includes the wrong shipment of eyeballs from Spain, a CTO stranded in America, a run of dolls with two left hands, and some deaths in the team-family.

The 30-year-old – scorer of 51 goals in 82 internationals – had been a major doubt since breaking his tibia at last December’s World Club Championship

Apollo Robbins, a.k.a the “Gentleman Thief,” explains his technique of managing attentional spotlight during the Neuromagic 2012conference on the Island of Thought, San Simón, near Vigo, Spain, while demonstrating on neuroscientist Flip Phillips of Skidmore College. Attentional spotlight is the focus of consciousness at any given moment, and it can be directed–or, as in magic, [...] ...

The improved results in emerging markets, as well as in Germany and Britain, helped offset declines in Italy and Spain.

High court rules the leading banking dynasty had done enough to satisfy authorities by making €200m voluntary settlement

Megan Coote, 24, who has mild learning difficulties, was told by Suffolk County Council she would have to give up newborn daughter Olivia, now two, when she fell pregnant because social workers deemed her an 'unfit'.

MADRID (AP) -- Teachers and students at all levels of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, chanting and erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system....

Soccer:The FAI have picked up 400 more tickets for Ireland’s matches against Spain and Italy and are hopeful of getting more, the association’s chief executive John Delaney has said.

My colleague Ken Vogel reports today on the Bilderberg Group, a highly exclusive gathering of "100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media" who gather once a year to discuss world affairs and stoke the coals of conspiracy theorists. Among the guests: Washington Post chairman Don Graham and (new) New Republic owner Chris Hughes. Per Vogel: The Washington Pos...

Madrid still hasn't explained how it plans to recapitalize Bankia. Unless the government acts fast to end the uncertainty, confidence in its ability to handle the crisis will continue to evaporate.

GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) -- Azahara Munoz of Spain defeated Morgan Pressel 2 and 1 in the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship Sunday after a slow-play penalty against the American on the 12th hole turned the match, casting a shadow on the $1.5 million event....

Ordered to decline an invitation to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee banquet, Spain's Queen Sofia is more isolated and alone than ever.

STAR is taking the plunge with his girlfriend Chloe Tangney — by taking her diving in Spain

This golden age for the country's football has proved much more resilient than its politicians, banks, housing market or bullfighting, says Jimmy Burns.

The Russian catwalk star stepped out in Madrid, Spain to launch the new Xti shoes Autumn/Winter 2012-2013 collection.

Spanish police are investigating the death of a man, reported to be a 26-year-old Scot, on the Costa Brava in Spain.

Spain took so long to rejoin Europe, only to find its future tethered to German wishes again.

LIKE MOST TDs, John Halligan, Independent TD for Waterford, is a regular voice on his local radio station. However, he is also well known to listeners of one the most popular English language stations in Spain, with regular slots on iTalk FM, which broadcasts across the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca.

The quantities are very small, but in milk powder and in meat-based baby food, residues of drugs given to livestock were found. Researchers from the University of Almería (Spain) have developed a system to analyse these substances quickly and precisely.

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst on why shares in Spanish banks have staged a small recovery.

DEBT-stricken Greece topped the world agenda overnight as leaders headed for talks with US President Barack Obama.

On Friday morning the markets opened in the negative zone due to the rising concerns over Spain and Greece in Eurozone, and weak US economic data.

The residents of these bright-red social housing units in Salburua, Spain, are the envy of every bill-paying apartment (and house!) dweller everywhere. In a feat of remarkable design innovation, these affordable apartments—designed by ACXT—actually produce too much energy! More »

As the recession deepens, more workers are getting by on the black-market economy that amounts to as much as a fifth of the country’s gross domestic product.

Spain got yet another slap in the face Thursday, when Moody's Investors Service downgraded four regions of the country due to their poor fiscal performance.

Spain tumbled into recession and European stock markets fell on Thursday as Greece installed a crisis government to tackle its crippling debt and top EU leaders prepared for crisis talks.

Spain denies reports that depositors are taking cash out of Bankia in Spain.

Stock futures were trading right around break-even on Thursday, as negative news out of Europe cancelled out some generally upbeat data and earnings results in the U.S. The Dow has fallen for four days in a row. Yields on Spanish bonds rose in an otherwise successful bond auction, and a report out of Spain said [...]

Economically, the future of the West now depends on the birthplace of the West.When Germany'schancellor, Hannelore Kraft, met France's president, Francois Hollande, in a sunny Berlin earlier this week, they agreed on a compelling strategy to save the Eurozone. With no elections due in any Eurozone country for the next two years, they were able to stretch the austerity timeline for Greece, Spain...

In a bid to pressure France and Spain into agreeing to direct negotiations, the Basque separatist group ETA says it has set up a delegation for talks.

New figures out today from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech -- a market research division of WPP -- show that Android is, overall, continuing to make large gains in the smartphone market, accounting for a majority of sales in the 12 weeks that ended March 18. Drilling down, Android is doing particularly well in some places. In Spain, Android is the platform to beat. It accounted for a 72.3 percent of...

Hollande's victory, as well as election defeats for incumbent governments in Spain and Greece, reveals deep popular hostility and frustration in Europe with the austerity policy promoted by Germany.

Francisco Ventoso of Spain won the ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia in a sprint finish after several other contenders fell at the last turn.

A small fossil bear recently identified in Spain suggests China's giant panda has European roots, a new study says.

A year after Los Indignados first occupied plazas across Spain, the group returned to revive its protests as Spain slumped into a second recession and unemployment threatened to rise beyond a staggering 25 per cent.

TENS OF thousands of protesters from the indignado (indignant) movement took part in rallies across Spain at the weekend, with police evicting a few hundred hardcore demonstrators from city squares during the largely peaceful protests.

With problems in Spain, Greece, Italy and on home soil the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling explains how he would help turn the economic tide around Europe.

SPANIARDS angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the financial crisis have turned out for street demonstrations.  

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was fastest in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday, racing past Pastor Maldonado to deny the Venezuelan a first Formula One pole position.

In The Lancet, Maria Goya and colleagues report significant prolongation of pregnancy with cervical pessary use in women at high risk of preterm birth by virtue of a short cervix. In an unmasked trial undertaken in five hospitals in Spain, 385 women with a cervical length of 25 mm or less were randomly assigned to either receipt of a cervical pessary or expectant management. The proportion of s...

MADRID, May 11 (Reuters) - Want to know how bad things can get in corporate Europe? Ask a Spanish CEO.

Harry Redknapp dismisses claim by Marca that Tottenham have agreed £32m fee with Barcelona for sale of winger.

MADRID — Like many of the immigrants who flocked to Spain not long ago, Klever Cordova was enticed by the prospect of easy employment and easy credit — the chance to leave behind the troubled economy of his native Ecuador and become a homeowner in a booming euro-zone country. Read full article >>

The Exciting 17th- and 18th-century music from Spain and Latin America in a rare concert.

Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is aiming to lead a Ferrari fight-back to boost their title bid at his home Spanish Grand Prix this weekend.

Two skulls with perforations have been exhumed in the area of Gormaz in Soria, Spain. They have been dated from the 13th and 14th centuries - a period in which trepanation was not commonly practiced. One woman lived for a length of time after a hole was drilled through her skull.

Hungary edged the United States in the men’s water polo gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but a rematch this summer will come far sooner than the medal rounds. The Americans join the nine-time champions in a loaded group that also includes perennial power Serbia, Romania and Britain. Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Australia and Croatia make up the other group for the 12-team com...

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We're back from a great week in Spain where the Domaining Europe 2012 conference was held last week. We stayed over a couple of extra days to visit a few more of Valencia's many attractions and just got home Tuesday. Before we return to our regular programming here are some final thoughts on the show.

With the right policies, Spain could be rescued, and kept in the euro. But in another six months, it will be too late, writes Matthew Lynn.

President desperately plays on suspicions of outsiders and alarm at centre-left policies that he warns would turn France into Spain or Greece

Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A protester holds a Guy Fawkes masked teddy bear during May Day demonstrations in Los Angeles. Below, more photos from demonstrations around the world today (Canada, Germany, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and more) in support of workers' rights and economic justice. Joe Sabia Above, Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia took these iPad [...]

US stocks closed out April with all three indices slipping lower, helped by weak consumer spending and ongoing worries about Spain.

PEOPLE are demonstrating across Spain against new austerity measures targeting education and health care spending.

It's Castilla la Vieja versus the Basque Country, Atlético Madrid versus Athletic Club from Bilbao, in the final of the Europa League, having overcome worthy opponents Valencia (Spain) and Sporting CP (Portugal).

Madrid risks having to support its banks, but a more chilling drama is playing out across the Pyrenees

Walking along a spruced-up promenade, Harry Ritchie asks himself if there can be any resort with a reputation more undeserved than that of Torremolinos. Long gone are the brawling crowds and family fun is on the menu.

Director of pro-life group says Obama 'most pro-choice president in history' as Plan B access upsets other sideGOP: Obama Using Taxpayer Money for CampaignWatchdog: $468G Price Tag On First Lady's Spain Trip

Oil prices fell to near $104 a barrel Friday in Asia after Standard & Poor’s lowered Spain’s credit rating by two notches, re-igniting fears about Europe’s debt crisis.

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redletterdave writes with an amusing tale of missent email. From the article: "On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of London-based Aviva Investors walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking news: They would be leaving the company. The email ordered them to hand over company property and security passes...

The euro zone's fourth-largest economy will do everything it can to avoid going the way of Greece.

Ryanair is threatening to impose a surcharge on flights to Spain in an escalating row over airport fees.

Desde Eurovisión ya nos venían avisando. España no chutaba ni en el festival de la canción. La renta que dejó Massiel con su 'la-la-la' ya no daba más de sí. Sin embargo, el punto de inflexión de esta caída libre fue el día en que Vicente del Bosque consiguió romper el maleficio de los cuartos de final. España nunca debió ganar el Mundial. Antes nos iba mejor. Miren ahora: desde que el propio D...

MADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of wildlife activists have demanded that Spain's King Juan Carlos step down as honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund Spain after it emerged he had gone on an elephant hunt in Africa.

PORT OF SPAIN  - Australia may employ two specialist spinners for the second Test against the West Indies, which starts on Sunday at the Queen's Park Oval. Nathan Lyon, who played in the three-wicket victory in Barbados in the first Test, could be partnered by left-arm spinner Michael Beer as the Australians look to wrap up the three-match series. "Over the last two seasons it's been ...

PORT OF SPAIN  - Australia may employ two specialist spinners for the second Test against the West Indies, which starts on Sunday at the Queen's Park Oval. Nathan Lyon, who played in the three-wicket victory in Barbados in the first Test, could be partnered by left-arm spinner Michael Beer as the Australians look to wrap up the three-match series. "Over the last two seasons it's been ...

Una de cada cuatro hamburguesas que se consuman en los restaurante McDonald's de España y Portugal puede haber sido hecha este año con vacuno extremeño. Con el acuerdo firmado ayer, la cooperativa de segundo grado Acorex aspira a ocupar una cuota de mercado del 25%. El convenio fue firmado con OSI Food Solutions Spain, proveedor de la multinacional estadounidense, y El Encinar de Humienta, prop...

MACAU (Reuters) - U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson said he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain, where he is courting the country's two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid,...

The world's cities are absorbing one million additional people every week--and by 2030, they could consume an extra 1.5 million square kilometers of land, or roughly the area of France, Germany and Spain combined. What would be the best ways for those cities to grow? A new study examines how--before urban planners existed--a group of Italian villages evolved into suburbs outside Milan today. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Alec Baldwin has stepped into the New York tabloid wars, excoriating two New York Daily News reporters for showing up at his yoga class to take photos of his fiancée. News leaked on Monday that Baldwin proposed to his girlfriend and yoga teacher, Hilaria Thomas, over the weekend. The 28-year old native of Spain is co-owner of the Yoga Vida studio in New York. Two Daily ...

Can't get enough of Henry Cavill?? Us either! So ch-ch-check out this clip from Superman HIS OTHER hero movie, called The Cold Light of Day! The synopsis might seem boring, but honestly this movie looks INtense! Here's what it's about: 'After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader (Cavill) is confronted [...]

Gold will trade in a range of between US$1,532/oz and US$1,800/oz this year, as the markets keep closely watching developments in Spain with regards to its sovereign debt situation, Manuel Sousa Andra...

Fresh infusion unlikely to calm concerns that big countries like Italy, Spain still won’t be protected if they run into trouble

Thousands of flights to and from Spain have been cancelled due to a general strike. We outline the rights of those passengers affected by the walkout.

I redattori che si occupano di scommese per Goal.com Spain e Italy hanno espresso la loro opinione sul match di stasera in programma a San Siro.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested a suspected al Qaeda member on charges of broadcasting videos on the Internet to incite militant attacks, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release On the occasion of their participation in the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, the governments of Australia, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police across Europe have seized almost 300,000 doses of counterfeit anti-impotence and weight-loss medicines, highlighting the prevalence of fake drugs in the region.

Your humble blogger is currently knee-deep in a pedagogical project on the foundations of economic prosperity.  You can imagine my delight, then, that Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have a new book coming out on that very topic:  Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.  There's an excerpt in the Montreal Review...

A unique thermosolar power station in Andalusia in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night

A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.

While their economies may be shaky in 2012, positive changes in France and Spain are also in the air, making this year a good time to visit.

Headline Title:  Spain’s economic recession must not lead to human rights crisis 16 March 2012 The Spanish authorities must ensure the country’s economic difficulties do not result in a human rights crisis, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty said as he conc...

The season-ending injury to Ricky Rubio may not ruin the hopes of his Minnesota Timberwolves, even as it inflicts harm upon basketball around the world. The promise of Rubio's debut NBA season was expected to be magnified this summer in London, where he was going to lead Spain in a likely gold-rematch with an American group that is being compared (wrongfully, though that's another story entirel...

RASQUERA, Spain (Reuters) - A small town in northeastern Spain, believes it has found a novel way to pay of its debt: cultivating cannabis.

Colombian singer Shakira has been nominated for a prestigious award in Spain in recognition of her endless charity work.

Five months after surviving a horrifying goring, Juan José Padilla’s decision to return to the bullring on Sunday comes amid an intense debate in Spain over bullfighting.

Yu Chengdong, chairman for Huawei Device, said that the company is planning to ship 60 million smartphones in 2012. This figure will triple its smartphone shipment growth compared with last year. Yu made the statement during the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. The company also formally launched its first quad-core smartphone named Ascend [...]

Interpol says 25 hackers linked to Anonymous have been arrested in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, according to news reports.

The actress pulled out because of her broken foot, which happened while she was in Spain last fall.

PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) -- Spanish king's son-in-law has appeared in court for a second day to answer questions about suspected fraudulent deals....

MADRID (Reuters) - Coins worth nearly half a billion dollars finally arrived in Spain on Saturday after lying in a sunken warship for more than 200 years and following a five-year legal battle between the Spanish government and a salvage company.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A 17-ton haul of silver coins, lost for two centuries in the ocean's depths aboard a sunken Spanish galleon, began its journey back to its home country on Friday after the deep-sea explorers who lifted it to the surface lost their claim to ownership....

Perhaps Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano of Spain, making is first appearance in the Accenture should have let a sleeping Tiger lie.

Joint letter to President Van Rompuy and President Barroso suggests priority areas for action.

Tehran cuts exports to Netherlands, Greece, France, Portugal, Spain and Italy; export ban comes in response to sanctions by EU, US aimed at stopping Iranian nuclear program.

If research continues to be sidelined, Spain will be left with little domestic expertise, warns Amaya Moro-Martín.

The government agency building a new rail system announced Thursday that archeologists have found thousands of historic artifacts while excavating in the railroad right of way near San Gabriel Mission. According to the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority, they found coins...

Spending long periods at low gravity may alter genes, suggests a new experiment involving a magnet-powered trick used on Earth to simulate weightlessness in space.

The rookie from Spain told Kobe he better not plan on getting another gold medal.

Researchers from the Science and Technology Institute of Food and Nutrition in Spain found having daily doses of cocoa reduced the risk of catching the disease.

The South African women's hockey team drew 1-1 with Spain in Randburg to clinch the five-match Investec international series 2-1.

Countries that could be offered VoA include Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Brazil and South Africa.

Prince William and Duchess Catherine jet to Spain and Mustique in the Caribbean for separate vacations in sunny climes.

Start in Barcelona, but don’t miss Costa Brava

The upcoming trial of the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón for investigating abuses from Spain’s past threatens the concept of accountability in Spain and beyond. (Madrid) – The upcoming trial of the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón for investigating abuses from Spain’s past threatens the concept of accountability in Spain and beyond, Human Rig...

After Haiti’s earthquake two years ago, cholera swept the country. And within a month, the same strain had spread to the Dominican Republic and the U.S., and then to Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, and Canada. [More]

Iran is cracking down on Internet Freedom: In the most sweeping move, Iran issued regulations giving Internet cafes 15 days to install security cameras, start collecting detailed personal information on customers and document users' online footprints. Spain passes new Internet "Piracy Law" United States Ambassador Alan Solomont put pressure on Spain's outgoing president, José Luis Rodríguez ...

PERTH (Reuters) - Fernando Verdasco fought off a valiant effort by former world number one Lleyton Hewitt to help Spain get a 2-1 win over hosts Australia in the Hopman Cup on Sunday.

Port of Spain (dpa) - Der frühere FIFA-Vizepräsident Jack Warner hat neue Vorwürfe gegen Fußball-Weltverbandschef Joseph Blatter erhoben. Im Gegenzug für Wahlkampfhilfe für den umstrittenen Schweizer...

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has confirmed she will play in Russia’s Fed Cup first-round tie against Spain in February. The star will lead Team Russia against Spain in the event. The former world number one will be the spearhead of the Russian squad against Team Spain in the first… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Soccer star Carles Puyol, who led Spain to the World Cup title last year, is the face of a new United Nations campaign to save endangered orangutans that could face extinction within the next few decades.

New conservative leaders in Greece, Italy, and now Spain should look to Argentina for inspiration on how to turn their economies around quickly

Hundreds of children born in Ireland every year are conceived using eggs or sperm sourced from Spain and other countries.In part two of our 21st Century Baby series,CARL O’BRIENtalks to the people involved in the process and explores the legal and ethical dilemmas they face

SPAIN YESTERDAY became the fifth euro zone country after Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Italy to change its government under the shadow of the crisis in the currency.

Next up on the 2011 Europe Financial Calamity tour? Spain and France.

The launch of high-street clothing store Zara in South Africa is expected to turn the local fashion industry on its head. By Shanthini Naidoo

Growing talk of restructuring by Greece, the first eurozone member to receive a bailout a year ago, points to a new stage in the debt crisis that has driven Ireland and Portugal to seek aid and forced draconian budget cuts in Spain

The real estate and banking excesses in Spain were a lot like those in the United States.