- Spain edition
November 4, 2014
The Catalan government led by President
Artur Mas will launch a lawsuit against Spain's central government for
"curbing freedom of expression". Photo: Quique García/AFP
Catalan leaders to defy Madrid and stage poll
Updated: The government of Spain's Catalonia region put itself on a collision course with Madrid on Tuesday by vowing to press ahead with a symbolic independence vote this weekend despite a court-ordered block. READ
Arts
A picture taken on Monday shows an artwork
from the Study of Perspective series by Chinese dissident and artist Ai
Weiwei at Barcelona's La Virreina Image Centre. Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP
China's Ai Weiwei gets Spain art show
A Barcelona gallery on Tuesday inaugurated a retrospective of works from the past three decades of dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, who has been banned from leaving China since 2011. READ
Models perform at the end of the 2013
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in
November 2013 in New York. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
Spain's 'Metro model' to star for Victoria's Secret
Less than a year after being spotted by a talent scout at a Madrid Metro station, Spanish model Blanca Padilla is to take part in the 2014 Victoria's Secret lingerie show, one of the biggest events on the fashion calendar. READ
Economy matters
European Commissioner for Economic and
Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici at the EC headquarters in Brussels on
Tuesday. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
Brussels forecasts years of pain for Spain
Spain can now expect growth of 1.7 percent in 2015, down from the 2.1 percent originally forecast by the European Commission, while unemployment and public debt levels are set to remain stubbornly high until at least 2017, Brussels said on Tuesday. READ
Hitler? The politician denied that his
Swastika-free costume represented the Nazi leader but claimed that he
had "the right to dress however he liked" at a private party. Photo:
Wiki Commons/Crisco42
Politician cops hell for Halloween Hitler costume
Toni Rodríguez, a councillor in Spain's scandal-hit ruling Popular Party, has added fuel to the fire of opponents by choosing to dress as Hitler during a recent Halloween party. READ
No arrests were made during the meeting, but police took the details of 28 members of the fascist groups. Photo: Al King/Flickr
Madrid: fascists crash Catalan talkfest
A discussion featuring pro-independence groups from Spain's Catalonia region in Madrid on Monday was disrupted by around 30 right-wing activists who shouted fascist slogans and jostled participants. READ
Police in the popular tourist town of Fuengirola were initially alerted by calls from concerned neighbours. Photo: Anne Sewell
Costa del Sol: Man 'beheads' sister after row
A 22-year-old man in Fuengirola, on southern Spain's Costa del Sol, has been arrested after he called police to admit to killing his sister following an argument. READ
Gibraltar air controllers claim that they
were forced to order the BA plane to change direction some 10-15 miles
from the runway. Photo: Nick Herber/Flickr
Gibraltar flight 'forced off course by Spanish jet'
A British Airways flight was forced to veer off course by a Spanish military jet while landing in Gibraltar, authorities of the contested British outpost said on Monday. READ
When seasonally adjusted the number of
people seeking work in October in Spain was down 19,393, the labour
ministry said. Photo: Gerard Julien/AFP
80,000 Spaniards join jobless line in October
Just under 80,000 people signed on at Spain's unemployment offices in October, the lowest increase in a traditionally difficult month for jobs since 2010, official figures released on Tuesday show. READ
Royal affairs
Three judges from a court in Palma de
Mallorca will take a decision on Friday on whether to accept Cristina's
not guilty plea. Photo: Jaime Reina/AFP
Court set to decide on fraud trial for princess
A Spanish court will decide on Friday whether to put the sister of the country's King Felipe VI on trial for tax fraud — unprecedented in the history of the monarchy — or accept her not guilty plea. READ
Features
Spain's stunning Alhambra Islamic palaces: Shutterstock
Take The Local's Spanish history quiz
Spain is full of famous places, faces and names. But how well do you know the history of this amazing country? Find in The Local's latest quiz! READ
The Local List
You had better listen up. Photo of woman with wooden spoon: Shutterstock
Top ten: things your Spanish 'mamá' says
Spanish mothers are renowned for their close relationships with their children. But while they may come across as over-protective, they ultimately do it because they care. Here, The Local lists ten things she might say. READ
Cinema prize
Antonio Banderas has starred in over 100 movies, playing Benito Mussolini and Che Guevara along the way. Screen grab/YouTube
Gallery: Hits and misses of Antonio Banderas
The Málaga-born actor who cut his teeth with Pedro Almodóvar before conquering Hollywood is to be awarded the Goya (or Spanish Oscar) of Honour for lifetime achievement by Spain's Film Academy. Here The Local casts an eye over some of the best and worst films he's starred in. READ
Spanish Face of the Week
Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias was one
of just 2,000 people at the proclamation party for Spain's new king
Felipe (pictured) in June. File photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP
Exposed: student conman who fooled king
A 20-year-old student from an elite business school who was arrested last week on suspicion of swindling, forging documents and impersonating public officials cozied up to the cream of Spanish society, even managing to attend King Felipe VI’s proclamation. READ
Spanish Language
Photo of a couple: Shutterstock
Top Ten: best new Spanish words
Spain’s royal language watchdog, the RAE, has just published its massive new dictionary. Here The Local lists ten of the best words appearing for the very first time for your reading pleasure. READ
More News
The bank said cost reductions were greater than expected. Photo: Philippe Desmazes/AFP
Santander profits surge 52 percent in 3rd quarter
Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank by market value, said Tuesday its profits jumped by 52.1 percent in the third quarter due to higher earnings in its main markets and lower costs. READ
Doctors at San Espases hospital performed emergency surgery but were unable to save the child's life. Photo: Chixoy/Wiki Commons
Baby held in dad's arms killed by passing van
A three-month-old baby boy being held in the arms of his father was killed recently on the Spanish island of Majorca after being struck by the wing mirror of a passing van. READ
Spain's automotive federation ANFAC predicts total new car sales for the year to reach 850,000 units. Photo: Josep Lago/AFP
New car sales surge in Spain
New car registrations surged for a sixth straight month in Spain in October, jumping 26.1 per cent over the same month in 2013, but with total sales still well below pre-crisis levels. READ
Pic of the day
Runners begin dressed in white but are
doused with a different colour of paint at each KM mark of the race.
Photo: Cristina Quicler/AFP
Spectacular 'Color Run' race lights up Seville
Runners in the southern Spanish city of Seville celebrated in style with coloured paint after finishing a messy 5-kilometre (3 mile) fun run on Sunday. READ
The regulations, aimed at curbing
Barcelona's reputation as a 'pothead's paradise' for tourists, will ban
clubs from supplying new members for at least 15 days. Photo: Lluis
Gene/AFP
Barcelona to lift cannabis club age limit to 21
Cannabis clubs in Catalonia will face stricter regulations from Thursday with the region's parliamentary health commission set to raise the minimum age for membership from 18 to 21 while prohibiting new clubs from opening near schools and nurseries. READ
African would-be migrants holding one of
the crosses honoring people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
Image: Zentrum für politische Schönheit/YouTube
Stolen Berlin Wall memorial taken to Spain
Crosses in Berlin honouring those who died while trying to cross the German capital's Wall have been taken by a refugee rights group to the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa to highlight the desperate situation on Europe's southern borders. READ
The clerics speculated that archbishop
García Aracil, who is due to retire next year, could be preparing the
residence for his personal use. Photo: Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz
Priests slam Spain's 'archbishop of bling'
Fifty priests have signed a letter criticizing a archbishop in one of Spain's poorest regions for allegedly converting a floor of the official bishop's palace into a "luxury suite" with marble floors, walk-in dressing rooms, and a jacuzzi bath. READ
Some 900,000 Spaniards regularly use e-cigarettes according to the industry body ANCE. E-cigarette photo: Shutterstock
Burn out: e-cigarette market crashes in Spain
The number of shops selling e-cigarettes has plummeted by 90 percent in Spain in just 12 months, an industry body claims, citing lobbying by pharmaceutical companies as one of the causes for the sudden decline. READ
Emergency services performed CPR on the 23-year-old who fell onto the concrete bank of Seville's Guadalquivir river. Photo of Triana Bridge: Shutterstock
Seville: Erasmus student dies in selfie fall
Updated: a Polish student on the Erasmus exchange program has died after falling seven metres while attempting to take a selfie photograph of herself in front of Seville's iconic Triana bridge. READ
Weather watch
Barcelona's beaches were still busy in
late October as locals and tourists enjoyed the unusually warm weather.
Photo: Flickr/. SantiMB .
October in Barcelona: the hottest in 100 years
Temperatures in Barcelona were 3.7ºC above average, the hottest since records began in 1914, during a sweltering October in which Catalan beaches were packed with people enjoying the unseasonal sunshine. READ
From our other editions:
Photo: APA (Archiv/epa)
Jihadist sought crowds to boost bomb deaths
Investigators have begun to carefully probe the background of Austria's latest radicalized teenage jihadist, whose pre-detention was extended on Wednesday afternoon after a court hearing in St. Pölten in Lower Austria. READ
Islamic State (Isis) supporters in Syria. Photo: Rami Al-Sayed/AFP
Swiss confirm European terror plot by three Iraqis
Swiss authorities confirmed on Friday that three Iraqis arrested in March are suspected of having planned a terrorist attack in Europe on behalf of the Islamic State group. READ
Russia has banned food imports from the EU. Photo: DPA
German exports to Russia dive by a quarter
German exports to Russia have collapsed by more than a quarter, according to figures released on Wednesday, as sanctions brought about by the Ukraine crisis take effect. READ
A Russian MiG-29. Photo: Krasimir Grozev/WikiCommons
Russia simulated an attack on Denmark
The Danish Defence Intelligence Service has released its new long-term risk assessment which reveals that Russia carried out a "a more offensive" military exercise aimed at a heavily-populated target. READ
The Local List
Here's what you should never say in France. Photo: Shutterstock
Ten things to never say to a French person
Ah, France. The land of lazy workers, surrender and adulterers. Come again? Say that stuff to a French person’s face and chances are you've made them really angry. Here we’ve listed some of the worst things you can say to a French man or woman. READ
Ebola crisis
S troops at the Vicenza base. Photo: Edward Braly/HO US Army/AFP
Uproar over US troops' Ebola quarantine in Italy
The decision to put a dozen American soldiers returning from Liberia into quarantine for Ebola at their base near Venice rather than in the United States sparked controversy in Italy on Wednesday. READ
Economic wealth is not the only measure of a country's prosperity. Photo: Shutterstock
Norway is world's most prosperous country
It's official! Norway has been ranked the world's most prosperous nation, said a study on Monday. READ
Weather
A snowstorm in Luleå, northern Sweden. Photo: TT
Sweden to get hit by 30 centimetres of snow
Sweden's weather agency has warned that a mighty snowfall is on the way for Sweden, with up to 30 centimetres expected on Tuesday alone. READ
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