A herd of about 150 cattle is frightening the residents of a southern Spanish village, who are afraid to go out for fear of being attacked.
Rafael Benitez believes he has already seen signs that his new strike force of Robbie Keane and Fernando Torres will gel.
A series of tragedies involving migrants off the coast of Spain has raised fears that the summer could see a record death toll in the region.
Fifteen African would-be immigrants, including nine young children, have died after their boat was left adrift while trying to reach Spain.
New Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal arrived to a hero’s welcome in his home town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Majorca on Tuesday.
A revolt was brewing in Spain’s Cabinet on Thursday as members refused to wear ties in Parliament, aiming to save energy and fight global warming.
Toni Horcajada is a Catalan and proud of it. But his allegiances are, at least at the moment, complicated. Tonight he will be supporting Spain.
Spain, one of the pre-tournament favourites, ensured they made the Euro 2008 final with a 3-0 demolition of Russia on Thursday.
Auto plants in Spain were paralysed and Portugal’s main airport banned planes from refuelling on Wednesday on a third day of strikes by thousands of truckers.
Concerns were growing on Monday night over a summer of coordinated European fuel protests after tens of thousands of Spanish truckers blocked roads and the French border, sparking similar action in Portugal and France.
Local favourite Dani Pedrosa streaked away to win the Catalan MotoGP on Sunday for his second victory of the season.
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 most striking image of Spain’s drought, that has forced Barcelona to ship in water, has been that of the underwater church which emerged from a drying dam. For most of the past four decades, all that has been visible of the village of Sant Roma has been the belltower of its stone church, peeping above the water beside forested hills from a valley flooded in the 1960s to provide water for the Catalonia region.
Top seed Rafael Nadal will meet David Ferrer in an all-Spanish showdown at the Barcelona Open after contrasting semi-final victories on Saturday. Nadal produced a claycourt masterclass to demolish German Denis Gremelmayr 6-1 6-0 while Ferrer had to work much harder to tame big-hitting Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 6-3.
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”.
Finnish Formula One driver Heikki Kovalainen was recovering well on Monday from the spectacular crash he suffered during the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona on Sunday. ”I don’t remember anything from the accident or what happened afterwards,” Kovalainen said, in comments posted on the McLaren-Mercedes website.
Ferrari’s world champion Kimi Raikkonen stretched his Formula One lead to nine points with a dominant win from pole position in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. Brazilian Felipe Massa sealed Ferrari’s second successive one-two finish, and third win in a row, with McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton taking third place to revive his title challenge after a disappointing last race in Bahrain.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday he had learnt his lesson and was ready to make amends in Spain this weekend for his disappointing last race in Bahrain. ”Obviously I won’t be making the same mistake again,” he told reporters at the Circuit de Catalunya.
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.
World champion Kimi Raikkonen believes his Ferrari team are set to cement their recent resurgence by winning this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. As Formula One continues to reel from the controversy surrounding a sex scandal involving Max Mosley the leading teams have all upgraded their cars in preparation for the start of the ”European” season.
Sir Alex Ferguson has warned Barcelona to brace themselves for an Old Trafford backlash when the two sides resume battle next week. An enthralling goalless draw in Barcelona on Wednesday has left the Champions League semifinal between the two clubs delicately poised but Ferguson is confident there will be no repeat of what was a subdued display by his team.
Manchester United return to Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium on Wednesday, the scene of one of their greatest victories, with the Champions League final again in their sights. The reigning English champions and Premiership leaders face the Catalan club, who won the 2006 Champions League, on Wednesday in the first leg of a semifinal tie.
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.
Dani Pedrosa won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off a challenge from four-time Moto GP world champion Valentino Rossi. Honda rider Pedrosa started second on the grid behind Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha, but the Spaniard overtook the rookie immediately.
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.
World 60m hurdles champion Liu Xiang went through two medal ceremonies at the world indoor championships on Sunday when organisers mistakenly played the Chilean national anthem instead of China’s. Chinese star Liu, the Olympic and world 110m hurdles champion, had clinched the gold medal on Saturday.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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A controversial Spanish musical telling the story of Anne Frank has its world premiere next week in Madrid, despite protests from her only surviving relative and the foundation that protects the rights to her diary. But, if preview audiences are anything to go by, its producers look like they have an improbable hit on their hands.
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/ 18 February 2008
South America and Africa have no chance of hosting the 2018 Soccer World Cup. ”Of all five continents available to present, South America and Africa will not be allowed to,” Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Sunday. ”If we hadn’t taken the decision to have a rotation policy in the first place, Africa would never had had the chance to host the World Cup, neither would South America.”
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/ 13 February 2008
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton, the victim of racial abuse from Spanish fans earlier this month, took top honours on Tuesday in Formula One pre-season testing in southern Spain. The McLaren driver was fastest among the 16 drivers on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit with a time of one minute 19,102 seconds, beating his previous best time on the same track.