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Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...
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Glow-in-Dark Roach Worlds Smallest Frog Among Top New Species
A cockroach that glows in the dark, a black fungus that's ruining prehistoric cave art and a frog smaller than a child's fingernail. These are three in a top-ten list of newly discovered species for 2012. An international committee of taxonomists announced their annual picks this week. Committee chairman Antonio Valdecasas, a Spanish biologist and research zoologist, says the committee ...
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Real Madrid sign Casemiro
Spanish football club Real Madrid has exercised its option of signing Sao Paulo loanee Casemiro on a permanent deal. The 21-year-old joined the Spanish giants on loan in January and made his Liga debut in a 3-1 victory over Real Betis at the Santiago Bernabeu April 19, reports Xinhua. A series of impressive performances for Real Madrid Castilla in Spain's second tier convinced club president ...
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Spain Princess Cristina faces new tax probe
Spanish Princess Cristina is facing a new probe over suspected fraud. The daughter of King Juan Carlos had been named as suspected in a case of embezzlement against her husband, Iaki Urdangarn, earlier this month, but the decision was overturned. However, judge Jose Castro ordered a new investigation into her financial affairs after examining 10 years worth of tax returns submitted to the ...
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Spanish workers in Gibraltar protest against pension conditions
The associations representing Spanish workers in Gibraltar staged a protest on 12 June campaigning for better pensions and social security benefits. Spanish workers in Gibraltar want the Spanish Government to change the law so that they get a similar pension benefit to what any other Spanish worker gets, when having worked all their life in Spain. They want benefits derived from their ...
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Italian and Spanish Alpha League Table 2008 published
EDHEC Risk and Management Research Centre (EDHEC) and EuroPerformance fund analysis company have released the Alpha League Table, their 2008 rankings of the top Italian and Spanish asset management companies. The ranking system is based on a measure of alpha intensity, a performance measure that has been adjusted for the risks actually taken, for all active equity management in the ...
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SWIP makes in-roads into Spain
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has strengthened its foundations in the Spanish market. SWIP’s Spanish team, based in Madrid and led by director of institutional sales Carlos Costales, will be supported by Christina Ponce, business development director at the London office. The Spanish branch of SWIP will offer, among other products, the SWIP European Fund, which ...
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Barcelona Transfer Rumors Latest Buzz on Neymar and Thiago Alcantara
Nou shouldn't be all that difficult. Here we'll break down a pair of transfer rumors surrounding the club, both of which could potentially have a mighty impact on the look of the squad moving ...
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Alexis Sanchez set to stay at Barcelona
Adriano signs new deal Sanchez has not been a regular starter under Tito Vilanova this season, leading to speculation he may join Manchester City or Juventus in the summer. However, the Chile international insists he will remain at Camp Nou for the foreseeable future."The club has told me that they want me to stay and now I am more calm," Sanchez said. "Everyone has said they want ...
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Report Barcelona acquires Brazilian star Neymar
Neymar will sign a deal to join Barcelona. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) Brazilian soccer player Neymar has been acquired by Barcelona from Santos FC, according to multiple reports. The 21-year-old forward’s transfer from Santos FC to Barcelona is expected to be completed Friday night. The transfer fee Barcelona is required to pay is 25 million euros (just over $32 million) and two ...
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Report Neymar Santos agree to $32 million Barcelona deal
Neymar will sign a deal to join Barcelona. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) Brazilian soccer player Neymar has been acquired by Barcelona from Santos FC, according to multiple reports. The 21-year-old forward’s transfer from Santos FC to Barcelona is expected to be completed Friday night. The transfer fee Barcelona is required to pay is 25 million euros (just over $32 million) and two ...
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Man City Juventus target Sanchez to stay with Barcelona
in recent times after falling out of favour under Tito Vilanova but has revealed that talks with the club have given him no reason to depart the Nou Camp. "The club has told me that they want me to stay and now I am more calm," Sanchez told reporters. "Everyone has said they want me to stay on and I am happy to be here for another season. "Other clubs have shown ...
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Barcelona whispers but De Gea not even contemplating Man Utd exit
are believed to be keen on using him to replace the departing Victor Valdes. However, De Gea has made it clear that he is enjoying his time in Manchester and is not looking to leave the Premier League champions. "That would be very difficult. I am very happy at United. Things are going really well, better every day. I am very happy," he ...
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Neymar Wants to Complete Santos Contract as Barcelona Negotiates
Europe during the offseason, his manager said today. Neymar's club, Santos, is in talks with officials from Spanish champion Barcelona, which wants the 21-year-old to move to Europe and join world player of the year Lionel Messi in its attack next season. "He's preparing to stay one year, but if some proposal is good for him he can change his mind," Neymar's ...
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Small plane crash kills 3 on Spanish island pilot badly injured
MADRID - Spanish officials say the pilot of a small plane carrying three passengers is the only person to survive a crash on the island of Mallorca. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane took off from the island's Son Bonet de Marratxi airfield just after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) Friday, failed to gain altitude and crashed into a nearby field, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said. Two men ...
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Spain criticized for police violence forced evictions
Amnesty International criticized the country in two areas linked to its economic meltdown. They were "aggressiveness" by police confronting protest marches and forced evictions of people who have defaulted on mortgages or are living in squatter camps, ThinkSpain reported Thursday. The report cited two cases where police violence appears to have caused death or serious injury. Angela ...
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Maria Jose most popular names in Spain
Spain's National Statistics Institute said Maria and Jose are the most common names in the country. The institute said about 7 million women in Spain are named Maria and about 2.89 million men are named Jose, ThinkSpain reported Friday. Other popular names for girls are Ana, Isabel and Dolores, while the most popular boys' names after Jose are Antonio, Juan and ...
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Bar Isabel A Spanish gem that will make you cut a rug
Bar Isabel offers a whole octopus for group dining or a single tentacle with new potatoes, stewed peppers and chorizo. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...
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Barcelonas Primavera Sound Festival Streaming
Good news for everyone not at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona this weekend: several of the most anticipated performances will be broadcast ...
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San Mames The cathedral of Spanish football
"Bilbao without San Mames would be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower," said former France and Athletic Bilbao midfielder Luis Fernandez recently, contemplating the last days of the stadium where he once played and ...
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Teacher Fired For Using Word ‘Negro’ During Spanish Class
A junior-high school Spanish teacher was reportedly fired last year for using the word ';negro'; during class. The teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith, has filed a lawsuit against the school saying that she didn’t use the word ';negro'; in a racial context and that the entire incident was purely a ...
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Spain to Grant Residency to Buyers of High-End Homes
Spain's government approved a plan to grant residency permits to foreigners who buy high-end homes, a step meant to breathe life into the country's moribund housing market.The measure, one of several announced Friday to encourage entrepreneurship, will award residency cards to those who spend at least EUR500,000 ($646,700) for real estate or invest at least EUR2 million in Spanish ...
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Spains Bankia sells City to Chiles BCI for $883 million
MADRID | Fri May 24, 2013 1:43pm EDT MADRID May 24 (Reuters) - Spanish nationalised lender Bankia sold City National Bank of Florida to BCI of Chile on Friday for $883 million, the bank said in a statement. Bankia expects to book 180 million euros ($233 million) in net capital gains from the sale, it said. ($1 = 0.7734 euros) (Reporting By Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Rodrigo de ...
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Spains Catholic Church says it needs more exorcists
MADRID (AP) — The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.An archdiocese spokeswoman said Friday that Madrid only has one exorcist priest and that it is considering a plan to train more. She spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with archdiocese policy."The devil exists. That's a fact," she told The ...
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CEVA Logistics to Provide Services for BIC in Spain
has signed a new contract with BIC, a manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers.Under the contract, which commenced in September 2012, CEVA provides BIC with logistics solutions for the Iberian market, including the handling and storage of BIC's products in Spain and Portugal at CEVA's hub in Ontigola, Spain. CEVA will focus on improving BIC's warehousing ...
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Barcelona on the frontline in the cancer fight
Cancer has become the leading killer of the elderly in Europe; it is an awful, painful disease that has become something akin to a pandemic. Progress has been made in its diagnosis, and further progress is being made in its treatment, and Barcelona, by hosting the European Breast Cancer Conference, is playing a major part in the sharing of ideas and knowledge to facilitate improvements and new breakthroughs.
The city of Barcelona will play a significant role in the prevention and promotion of awareness of breast cancer when it hosts the annual European Breast Cancer Conference this year. Breast cancer is among the leading killers of women around the world, and although mortality has begun to drop worldwide, and especially in Europe, there is still much progress that can be made. Read more
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