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Zlatan Ibrahimovic Say’s FC Barcelona Pep Guardiola Small Time Coach
02/09/10 at 03:17am GMT+1
Looking back at his year at Barcelona, Ibrahimovic said he came off to a great start.
World News
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A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing said authorities had identified James J. Lee as the likely suspect. Police had not released the gunman's identity.
"This was almost certainly a dry run, a test," said one senior law enforcement official.
Tropical Storm Earl bulked up to hurricane strength on a track toward islands in the eastern Caribbean on Sunday, while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a Category 1 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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The budget carrier congratulated itself for having "dethroned Iberia as the preferred company in Spain."
Spain 's Santander won’t need to raise capital to finance acquisitions, Chief Executive Officer Alfredo Saenz said at a news conference in Madrid last month.
The SEC said the duo made nearly $1.1 million in illegal profits. The regulator has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the traders' assets.
Politics
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On Monday, Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero said the government and foreign ministry “have expressed their concern” after the weekend arrests in the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco.
The protestors were detained for about eight hours until Spain arranged for them to be placed in a Spanish cultural centre.
Many reports show that human rights are not respected in Spain regarding the Basques,” Bekaert said
Society
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Wednesday was 'a day of infamy,' victims' representative Pilar Vera said after meeting Telecinco representatives.
Police inspector Jose Nieto said the case involving the Brazilians was the first in which Spanish authorities dismantled a ring in which traffickers brought in men, rather than women, to toil as sex workers.
The music mogul is said to have been appointed as mentor for the groups this year and took his final 12 bands to Spain, so he could whittle them down to three acts for the live shows.
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Culture
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A film on Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is screened at the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Munster. The museum celebrates its 10th anniversary
As the Spanish city of Bilbao prepares for bullfighting season, animal rights activists stripped naked in protest outside the city's iconic Guggenheim museum.
These authorities were encouraged by the campaign in France, which culminated in a national ban on wearing these garments in public spaces, passed by the National Assembly on July 13.
Property
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But this one could be very useful to the many Irish investors who are trying to figure out what to do with an investment bought in Spain that is now just a financial millstone.
The 3-bed, 3-bath detached villa with private pool, frontline on La Finca Golf, the Costa Blanca’s finest course, was offered for EUR 360,000, distressed discounted from EUR 850,000 for a quick sale.
Until 2007 the Spanish tax authorities had a policy of charging overseas property investors a higher rate of capital gains tax than applied to Spanish citizens.
Tourism
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Holiday Bookings Increase By 75 per cent for Canary Islands, Egypt and mainland Spain September 2010
Sales in July across the group were up 93% year on year and forward bookings are up 75%
He remains in intensive care but his family are arranging an air ambulance and hope to bring him home next week.
A Hotel Globales Cortijo Blanco worker said Ms Gardener had been passing the hotel when the blast happened at 0900 BST.
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Sport
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The 26-year-old Garmin rider beat Spain's Koldo Fernandez de Larrea to the line at the end of the 198.8-kilometre ride from Guadix to Lorca in southeastern Spain.
Puyol, 32, initially suffered the injury while warming up just before Barcelona's 3-0 win away to Racing Santander on Sunday.
'He is a magician, but in fact there is no magic... Magic is fiction and I live in football which is real life.'
Work & Jobs
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The unemployment rate in the 16-country euro region remained stuck at a record 10 percent in the last month.
Despite some signs of the economy beginning to recover, unemployment is still running at 20 per cent, the highest in Western Europe.
Spain initially planned to cancel or delay a fifth of public work projects in order to cut spending by ¤15 billion ($19 billion) by 2012 to rein in a swollen deficit.
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Health
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A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor.
In a ruling, to which Europa Press had access, the judge convicted the doctor for a crime of professional negligence resulting in injury.
Any adult woman in full health may adopt these embryos, including couples and women on the waiting list for adoption of children, couples with children, women without male partners who want a child and couples with fertility problems.
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Socialists lead over Conservative PP falls to 3% in latest poll
Instituto Opina poll shows Socialists popularity fall 1% since late May
Real estate agents are offering travel and months of free mortgage as incentives
Brokers get more aggressive
Internet users are more active, have more friends and are less depressed
According to a report by ‘Proyecto Internet Catalunya’
Various Catalan authors decline to attend Frankfurt Book Fair
Upset over government’s initial policy to not consider Castilian literature as Catalan culture
Tiny black flies with serious bites cause problems along rivers in Catalonia
Authorities advise covering up and avoiding riverbanks at dawn and dusk
French striker Thierry Henry flew to Barcelona Sunday to sign 4-year contract
Says “I have chosen Barça for … its style of soccer, stadium and history”
Education
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The coordinator of the Self Concept Consulting Issues and Feeding Habits in the Center for Applied Psychology, UAM, Dr. Sepulveda, says "it is necessary to investigate the specific risk mechanisms, such as diet or body dissatisfaction, it can facilitate the further development of an eating disorder during their university studies. "
This service is in addition to the 336 libraries and 11 'mobile libraries' that exist in Catalonia and which last year received a total of 23,357,973 visitors.
The grouping of these universities "represent the same model, which strongly connects quality teaching and excellence in research," Ripoll said, who appeared before the media with her counterparts from the other three centres.
Finance
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“It’s going to make a desperate situation even more critical,” said Ruiz, 43, who works in an accounts department. “It could mean I lose my apartment and we all end up living under a bridge.”
The budget, which will be presented to lawmakers by the end of September, will contain €10bn ($12.72bn) of spending cuts and needs the backing of small, regional parties to pass.
Tax office: Sum involved is a few hundred thousand euros - Spreads widen on 10 year Spanish/German bond yields (Adds economy minister comment, bond yields)
Economy
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The report says revenue rose 10.4 per cent through July, largely due to a higher VAT rate, a tax on goods and services.
The increase was partly explained by families making earlier purchases of domestic goods prior to a 2 percent increase in sales tax that took effect in July, it added.
Unions protested, claiming that the cuts would lead to the loss of 100,000 jobs at a time when unemployment has soared to more than 20 percent.
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Food & Drink
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He said: “The campaign has turned out to be better than expected because we have received far superior prices to last season.
Farmers have long been predicting a decline, however, because they planted 6.5 per cent less land to maize this spring due to low prices.
On the other hand, counter-clockwise, in the last twelve months the cost of the global food basket was reduced by 2.2% and occurred in all retail formats, particularly hypermarkets, which had a drop of 3 1% in their prices.
Leisure
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More than 100 police and 120 civil protection volunteers were on hand in case of incidents.
"Although the specifics of the strike have not been announced, in the past the strike has affected security services, public transportation, cleaning as well as medical and hospital services which are all integral to the running of the concert."
A new version of the movie, with the most violent scenes cut out, has received a "not under 18" rating, meaning it can screen at commercial theatres like the previous installments of the franchise, DeAPlaneta said.
Transport
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It never had the magic Auto button that takes control over from you and lets you just point and shoot. Even winding to the next frame had to be done manually. Whatever the result, good or bad, was entirely in the hands of the man behind the lens.
A subsidy scheme of 80 million euros is currently in place to encourage sales of electric models, with the government funding 20 per cent of each purchase, or up to 6,000 euros per car.
This margin will allow Transport and Development Minister Jose Blanco to "maintain some projects" but the cost of these will not be "particularly significant," Salgado said
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They seized cocaine, ecstasy pills and other drugs.
The detainees were later released but are waiting to return to Spain at a Spanish diplomatic residence called "Casa de Espana" in Aaiun, the capital city of the former Spanish colony.
Connection with drive-by murder following four-year man hunt
Energy
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The company said the area, known as Rio Grande, already has the infrastructure necessary for gas production and Repsol would be able to begin exploiting the well soon.
Before giving the green light, the technicians made the final checks on the aircraft, shortly before seven o'clock in the morning, the plane took off to an altitude of 8,500 meters.
Both leaders agreed in calling the meeting "positive", but disagreed on other issues such as the future of the nuclear power plant Garoña.
Environment
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That is around a half of the total surface that has burned down in Spain.
Two more helicopters were due to join the firefighting effort, bringing the total number of helicopters and aircraft to 18.
Cordoba is one of several southern provinces on alert for heavy rains.
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Utilities
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In its note, the EC lists the major deficiencies detected, in general, in the member states that have been warned.
All its facilities have been reduced to a pile (the demolition had cost 2.6 million euros), from which will emerge a new stadium allegedly linked to the application of the 2016 Olympics.
The session is divided into twelve sectors: air conditioning, heating, water, gas, electricity, automation, telecommunications, renewable energy, security, regulation and control, fastening tools and services.
Sci—Tech
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Sony cut the size and weight of all three of its ereaders while expanding the use of touchscreens to all models - allowing users to turn pages with a swipe of the finger like the Apple iPad.
In addition, Veo7 will hire one of its frequencies to other channels such as Sony Entertainment Television's AXN. Vocento will also rent a frequency to Disney Channel and MTV through its Net TV channel.
iPhone 4 will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland this Friday, July 30
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Marta S. Wendlinger | One 2 One Fashion
Politics of co-operation
La Ciutat Invisible is an innovative co-operative shop/library in Barcelona's Sants district
Nicholas Fogarty | Fog over Catalonia
Tattoos and graffiti
BCNeta’s 'hermanos helados' are waging a war they cannot win
Nicholas Mead | The Big Picture
Taking the demo out of democracy
Democracy in Catalonia
Marta S. Wendlinger | One 2 One Fashion
Marta's 'Fashion Savvy or Fashion Faux Pas' section on Barcelona Reporter
Last review: Joan Puigcercós
Alex Chumillas | Advice from Alex Chumillas
Inheritance and gift tax in Spain
(ISD) Impuesto de Sucesiones y Donaciones: what you need to know Spain News
Patrick Collins
Barcelona a magnet for international students
Planet Churro
Guiris and the nationalist cause
The Presidential Puncture
Josep C. Vergés article on Racó Català submitted by Rob Trenator
Susan Pedalino
Jobs in Spain - What you need to know
KSL - Kate Sharpley Library
The Great Swindle: 'This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich'
MECAL
Cortometrajes Españoles Presentados Por MECAL En Venezuela
Barcelona a magnet for international students
Planet Churro
Guiris and the nationalist cause
The Presidential Puncture
Josep C. Vergés article on Racó Català submitted by Rob Trenator
Susan Pedalino
Jobs in Spain - What you need to know
KSL - Kate Sharpley Library
The Great Swindle: 'This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich'
MECAL
Cortometrajes Españoles Presentados Por MECAL En Venezuela
