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20/08/08 at 06:08pm GMT+1
Up to 150 people are feared dead after a plane crashed at Madrid's Barajas international airport following a reported engine fire.
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Compared with its U.S. and European rivals, Spain's Santander—the largest bank in the euro zone by market value—and its smaller rival, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), have a lot to smile about
Speaking at a press conference following the unveiling of a proposed all-share deal, Walsh said the new company would have combined annual revenue of EUR16.5 billion.
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Last month the government predicted the economy will grow by just 1.6 percent in 2008 and 1.0 percent in 2009 as a decade-long economic boom based on the homebuilding industry comes to an abrupt halt. It expanded by 3.8 percent last year
More than 1,000 holidaymakers, among them Britons, had to be evacuated overnight from their hotels and apartments after police received an anonymous tip-off that five bombs had been left in different towns in south-west France near the border with Spain |
With the addition of Rebecca Hall ("The Prestige"), a young British actress with a long face and lovely droopiness,
local officials in Barcelona, who claimed he had received €1m from the city's administration towards the funding of the project |
For a real taste of Catalan culture head to the city at the end of next month for the annual La Mercè festival
Thirty-five years after the 1973 classic, in which Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the story of two men struggling to escape from a prison island |
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"We want everyone to be reassured that we want to continue, we want to look after all our clients. They won't lose any money."
It is the first large property group in Spain to seek protection from its creditors since the bubble burst on Spain's once-booming property market last year |
Another 40 passengers were injured,
The 48-year-old German has been living at the airport - known as Son Sant Joan - for 10 years, pushing her three suitcases, a blanket, a pile of books and her white cat, Mumu, around with her |
The Chinese are laid back about athletes making the 'slit-eyed' gesture. So, should we be offended on their behalf?
Fernando Alonso has stirred interest ahead of the world championship round in Valencia. |
Unemployment in Spain hit a 10-year high of 2.43 million people in July
Eurostat estimates that 16.322 million men and women in the EU27, of which 11.352 million in the Eurozone |
David Nelson, 32, will begin a five-week hike from the most northerly to the most southerly points in Spain on August 15 to raise money for the fatal medical condition amyloidosis.
The transplant would only cover the lower half of the face below the eyes. |
She fears that young people may become "disincentivised to continue improving their qualifications."
benefits of ‘fast track’ divorce may lend to improving the quality of education |
stashing millions of yen in boxes to avoid inheritance taxes
Shows no fear of credit crunch |
year-on-year inflation rate in Spain rose to 5.3 per cent in July, its highest level since December 1992.
'The coin must have been done by a professional, the work is impressive,' he said.
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Three years laterin Spain, the pitch-and-putt business was abandoned in favour of gastronomy, although the name, El Bulli, survived. It refers to a breed of French bulldog favoured by the doctor's wife
If you do get vegetables in restaurants they are fried. When you order a tomato salad, you get seven tomatoes covered in oil!" |
A rock festival and competition, by Jägermeister, BCN Week, Scanner FM
and hoytocoyo
Last weekend, Tuesday and Wednesday particularly busy |
More than 150 feared dead as plane crashes at Madrid
Since the worst accident in aviation history, when 583 were killed as two planes collided in thick fog at Los Rodeos (now Tenerife North) airport, major disasters have become increasingly rare, especially in the developed world.
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According to the police, the cocaine was found in a van near a Barcelona shopping center. It's the third major cocaine bust of the summer in Spain and the biggest carried out in the country on land in all of 2008.
The missing drugs, amounting to 95 per cent of the cocaine seized in police operations, would be worth about five million euros |
To protests from motorists in Spain and mockery in parts of the press, the Socialist government plans to cut motorway speed limits to 50mph and town speeds to 25mph
The results do not take into account the activity of Gamesa's solar energy unit Solar which it sold to US private equity firm First Reserve in February for 261 million euros and the gains made with this operation |
My eyes didn't water and the athletes did not complain about the pollution, only about the heat and humidity in Spain.
Levels now stand at 43% of their total capacity at 297.34 cubic hectometres, a much healthier picture than at the start of April, |
Affected residents and businesses couldn’t get information
Fecsa won’t say when everything will return to normal |
As a result of an up to 5°C increase in water temperatures over the next few years
University of Valencia Spain (UV) has shown that they contained traces of cocaine at an average concentration of 155 microgrammes, which is the highest rate in Europe |
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