This year the cup spotlights elite football freestylers with a strong social media presence
Top seed Novak Djokovic described his straight-sets opening win over Gael Monfils in Madrid on Tuesday as his “best performance of the year” as he set up a showdown with Andy Murray.
When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, was not that the moment for the United Nations to send its secretary general to Moscow to demand a ceasefire?
Fuelled by social media, the protests were horizontal in structure, decentralised with no identifiable leader, and took shape without the involvement of unions or political parties.
Eden Hazard’s transfer from Chelsea to Real Madrid has been the highlight of the summer transfer window until now
Messi has shown many facets during his spell-binding career but in Barcelona’s win over Liverpool on Wednesday, the dominant one was of a leader
Spain’s Supreme Court has confirmed former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato’s jail sentence of four years and six months for misusing funds
Where this weekend’s Liverpool-Madrid Champions League final in Ukraine will be won and lost
The mayoral race is down to a pair of self-styled "little grandmothers" who are poles apart in their politics but equally tenacious and astute.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the funeral of Portuguese footballing legend Eusebio da Silva Ferreira.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into seven Spanish football clubs after complaints they accepted illegal state aid.
Barcelona’s Tito Vilanova expects Lionel Messi to be fit for his side’s trip to Atletico Madrid, in hopes to seal their fourth title in five years.
Karim Benzema has struck a brace in a 3-0 win over Sevilla on Sunday as Real Madrid edged closer to their first Spanish league title in four years.
Madrid comes alive after dark — no one
sensible goes out dancing before 2am. Resident <b>Paul Richardson</b> picks the best places to go.
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/ 2 February 2012
Spanish curators identified Wednesday what they think is the earliest ever copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s <em>Mona Lisa</em>.
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/ 2 September 2009
Rio de Janeiro and Chicago’s chances of hosting the 2016 Olympics were boosted on Wednesday as they appeared to come out tops in the IOC’s evaluation.
Spain’s IOC representative thinks US President Barack Obama has the chance to get the 2016 Olympics for his home city, Chicago.
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/ 14 December 2008
Real Madrid did not deserve to lose by two goals against leaders Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Saturday, says coach Juande Ramos.
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/ 16 October 2008
Seve Ballesteros’s state of health worsened on Thursday, with the golf legend undergoing fresh surgery to ease a build-up of fluid in the brain.
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/ 13 October 2008
South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel produced another flawless display of golf to secure his third European Tour victory at the Madrid Masters on Sunday.
The Spanish capital on Thursday banned the use of human billboards, calling them an ”assault on people’s dignity”.
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/ 18 September 2008
The Spanair MD-82 jetliner that crashed in Madrid on August 20 was started by the co-pilot, press reports said on Thursday.
Messages of support and sympathy flooded into Spain after the country’s worst air accident in decades killed 153 people on Wednesday.
A Spanish tourist jet carrying more than 160 people skidded off a Madrid airport runway and broke up in flames on Wednesday.
Opec has concerns that future demand for oil might not be strong enough to justify investment to boost oil production.
Nine skydivers jumped free of their plane before it crashed to earth in Spain, killing the pilot and another of their companions, local authorities said on Saturday. Four of the surviving parachutists were hurt in the fall, two of them seriously, a spokesperson for the regional government of Toledo said.
Fernando Torres has established a reputation as vaunted as his own country, Spain, in terms of footballing ability, but like his homeland, equally pressing on his shoulders is the lack of a major title. The 24-year-old is just the latest in a long line of top strikers from Spain to go into battle in search of a senior international title.
The Asian Development Bank called on Saturday for immediate action from global governments to combat soaring food prices and pledged fresh financial aid to help feed the Asia Pacific region’s poorest nations. ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda told a news conference in Madrid, where the bank is holding its four-day annual meeting, that total lending ”could be sizeable, but not enormous”.
David Beckham could play for England at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa if he looks after himself, coach Fabio Capello has said. ”The door is open. He played the last game, and did well against France. I see him play for Los Angeles Galaxy every now and then,” the Italian told sports daily Marca on Friday.
The smallest planet discovered outside our solar system has been found by Spanish scientists. ”I think we are very close, just a few years away, from detecting a planet like Earth,” team leader Ignasi Ribas told a news conference on Wednesday. The rocky planet, with a radius about 50% greater than the Earth’s, circles a small red dwarf star 30 light years away.
A car bomb exploded on Friday close to a Guardia Civil police station in Calahorra, a town in the Rioja region of northern Spain, after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, Spanish media reported. The media reported no serious injuries but said the bomb warning had disrupted a Holy Week procession.
A former drummer for 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA, Ola Brunkert, has been found dead after an apparent accident in his house in Mallorca, Spanish police said on Monday. Brunkert bled to death from a throat wound which police suspect was caused after he accidentally smashed a pane of glass.