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Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Painting bought for €150 found to be Dali's earliest surrealist work

Tomeu Lamo, Carmen Sandalinas Linares, Nicolas Descharnes and Jose Pedro Venzal Placido pose next to a copy of an unreleased work by Salvador Dali titled  
Experts confirm that canvas bought from an antiques shop in Girona in 1988 was painted by the Catalan artist at the age of 17
22 May 2014

Spain apologises for 'No dogs or Chinese' sign in television comedy show

The sign shown on SPanish TV which says 'no dogs or Chinese'  
China has demanded an apology from Spain after a satirical television show featured a sign reading "No dogs or Chinese"
22 May 2014

Madrid lost Olympics bid 'because of row over Gibraltar'

There were 496 incursions in 2013 and 112 in the first three months of 2014, the figures disclosed by Foreign Secretary William Hague revealed  
David Cameron threatened to block Madrid bid for Olympics if Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy didn’t back off over border queues, senior politician claims
21 May 2014

Matador gored during bullfight festival

Matador David Mora is gored during a bullfight in Madrid  
A bull fighting festival in Madrid was called off after a matador was repeatedly gored and two others badly injured
21 May 2014

Bullfight called off after three matadors gored in Madrid

Spanish matador David Mora is gored by a bull during a bullfight of the San Isidro Feria at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid  
Major bullfight forced to end early for first time since 1979 after bulls get the better of all three toreros
21 May 2014

Spanish university storing donated corpses in 'chamber of horrors'

University in Madrid launches inquiry after video footage shows hundreds of human cadavers donated to its faculty of medicine apparently strewn around storerooms
19 May 2014

Gibraltar flag-raising leads to arrests of Spanish journalists

Two Spanish television reporters arrested after raising flag on Gibraltar
15 May 2014

Christopher Columbus shipwreck identified off coast of Haiti

Shipwreck could be remains of boat which brought Christopher Columbus to America
13 May 2014

Google must delete your data if you ask, EU rules

Europe’s top court has backed the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ but experts doubt it will work in practice
13 May 2014
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Spanish female politician shot dead in 'act of vengeance'

Woman detained in city of Leon after head of provincial council gunned down in broad daylight in what authorities said appeared to be a personally motivated attack
12 May 2014

Morocco building wall to halt tide of illegal immigration into Europe

Morocco has secretly begun work to boost border security at Spanish enclaves in North Africa prompting anger from human rights campaigners
12 May 2014

British millionaire held in Spain over 'harem' claims

Iranian born British millionaire is accused of fathering seven children with the wannabe models who now claim they were held against their will
11 May 2014

Spain police seize tons of cocaine among pineapples

An estimated 2.5 tons of Cocaine hidden among pineapples on a ship from Costa Rica seized by Spanish police
07 May 2014

British broker hunted by Spanish police found living in Wiltshire

British businessman hunted by police Costa del Sol found to be living in rural Berkshire
04 May 2014

Baby mouse-deer born at a zoo in Spain

This baby deer, about the size of a hamster, was born to a special breeding programme designed in response to the deforestation of its Asian habitat
26 Apr 2014
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Madrid begins search for remains of author of Don Quixote

Historians will use radar technology in a bid to solve the four-century old puzzle of exactly where the literary genius lies
25 Apr 2014

Has the sun set on the expat dream in Spain?

Ninety thousand Britons have waved adios to a life under the Spanish sky. Sarah Rainey investigates why the sangria has turned sour
23 Apr 2014

Why the sun set on my Spanish dream

As figures reveal that 90,000 Britons returned home from Spain last year, due to a shrinking job market and continuing property slump, one expat explains why she had to wave farewell to her Mediterranean life
23 Apr 2014

End to Mediterranean dream for 90,000 Britons who left Spain last year

British expatriates are deserting Spain in droves, according to new figures from Spain's national statistics institute
22 Apr 2014

Austerity endangers Spain's road users

Spain’s roads fall victim to austerity measures with urgent investment needed to restore road surfaces, markings and crash barriers
22 Apr 2014
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Spanish village to hold referendum over 'Kill Jews' name

A Spanish village is to hold a referendum over whether to change its name of Castrillo Matajudios, which translates as "Kill Jews"
22 Apr 2014

Spain investigates £1.5bn embezzlement of EU funds

Local officials are suspected in a fraud involving the diversion of hundreds of millions of pounds of EU funds
16 Apr 2014

Spanish policemen face prison for 'torturing' two Britons in Majorca

Four members of Spain's Civil Guard face a combined 26 years in jail for allegedly assaulting tourists after they were arrested for fighting on the island
15 Apr 2014

Squatters dispute threatens Andalusia coalition government

Left-wing minority party angers alliance-leading Socialists by handing over keys to empty properties to evicted squatters ahead of 12,000 people on waiting list
11 Apr 2014

Norman Foster drops Madrid foundation project after planning snub

Renowned British architect had received backing from mayor for plans to convert historic mansion but his designs were rejected by the city's heritage committee
10 Apr 2014
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The International Medieval Combat at Belmonte Castle in Belmonte, Spain  

Fighting knights

Mother and baby rhino  

Baby boom at Spanish zoo

Gibraltar  

Gibraltar row: Q & A

The Barbary macaque population in Gibraltar is the only one in the whole of the European continent  

A history of Gibraltar

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Spanish Guardia Civil fires at a jet skier off Gibraltar

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