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2 hrs ago | The Age

Banderas says financial crisis hurting indie film-makers

Hollywood actor and director Antonio Banderas said Saturday the financial crisis had dealt a heavy blow to independent film-makers. "The crisis has taken us by surprise and it is stabbing us in the back," said the Spaniard, who starred in hit films including Desperado and Evita.

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Musical Movies, Evita, Antonio Banderas, Czech Republic, Europe, World News,

7 hrs ago | Earth Times

ETA suspected in northern Spain bomb attack, no casualties

Terrorists of the Basque separatist group ETA are suspected to be behind a bomb attack on the regional headquarters of the ruling Socialist party in in the town of Durango, just east of Bilbao in northern Spain, the Basque Interior Ministry reported Friday.

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12 hrs ago | Notes from Spain

Why Spain Great #4: Your thoughts

OK, there are a million reasons why Spain is great, and after the first three entries , I could continue this series forever But I'm off on holiday to find even more reasons why Spain is great, and in the mean time, I wanted to wrap this series up by asking YOU why you think Spain is great.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Fri Jul 10, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

The Discovery of Spain: Goya to Picasso

A new art exhibition at Edinburgh's National Gallery Complex explores Britain's fascination with Spain during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel

Sunday Times

Spanish book fair battles economic crisis and snobbery

One of Europe's biggest book fairs this week will have to contend with the economic crisis in Spain as well as its traditional battle to knock down the walls between high- and low-brow literature.

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature, World News,

CBC

Basque separatists blamed for blast

A worker removes debris after a bomb went off at the regional headquarters of the Basque Socialist Party in the Spanish northern town of Durango on Friday.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Explosion

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

1 dead at Pamplona

A charging bull gored a young Spanish man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years.

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Related Topix: World News

The Economist

Unemployment in Spain: Two-tier flexibility

LIFE is looking up for metalworkers in Cuenca, east of Madrid. They have won a pay rise of 3% in real terms.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Thu Jul 09, 2009

MyOptumHealth

Humans Can Develop Bat-Like Echolocation

Humans can develop echolocation, a system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to "see" their surroundings, new research has found.

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Related Topix: World News

Canada.com

Woolly mammoths roamed southern Spain

Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: World News

Typically Spanish

Spain Press Review - Wednesday July 8 2009

El Mundo leads with the events in China where it says thousands of Han Chinese have gone onto the streets to hunt Muslim Uighurs.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson

Wed Jul 08, 2009

The Independent

Scenic Routes: Spain by road

Standing at the side of a motorway in baking sunshine while waiting for a tow-truck to arrive isn't exactly what we had in mind when, over the muesli and toast one Sunday morning, I had brightly suggested, "Why don't we drive down to the Costa del Sol?" It must have been powerful stuff, that muesli, for wife and son readily agreed, a decision they ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Travel

ABC News

Italy's Dolomites become World Heritage Site

Other new natural sites added to the list included the Wadden Sea wetlands, an area rich in wildlife in Germany and the Netherlands; and northern China's Mount Wutai, a sacred Buddhist site known for its five flat peaks and a landscape with 53 monasteries.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel

Biology News Net

Coralline algae in the Mediterranean lost their tropical element between 5 and 7 million years ago

An international team of researchers has studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Science, Paleontology, Italy,

Airport Business

DHS: United States and Spain Formalize Arrangement to Interdict High-Risk Travelers

Madrid, Spain-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba today and signed a Declaration of Principles formalizing the Immigration Advisory Program -which allows for the identification of high-risk travelers at foreign airports before they board aircraft bound for the United ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Travel, Madrid, Spain Travel, Spain Travel

Tue Jul 07, 2009

CW 15

Cruz says 'no' to marriage

A Boston couple receive an invitation to their own wedding and are challenged to marry in one week or separate.

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Related Topix: Wedding, World News, Entertainment

Wauwatosa

Tosa Students and Teachers Travel to Spain

Twenty-four Wauwatosa East High School Spanish students and their teachers Colleen Dardis, Matt Keefe, Ann O'Connell, Anna Troy and Judy Urban visited Spain from June 16-26. While in Spain, they visited the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Figueres, Toledo, Segovia, Sevilla and Granada.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Travel, Spain Travel,

This is Guernsey

Alderney and Sark beaten only by Spain

ALDERNEY and Sark have been jointly ranked the second-best-kept travel secret in the world by Lonely Planet.

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Related Topix: Guernsey County, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Serbia, World News, Capitol Reef National Park, US National Parks,

Mon Jul 06, 2009

The Pinoy

Filipino among royal guards of King of Spain

By Danny Buenafe - A Filipino is one of the members of Spain's top military force securing King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia.

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Related Topix: Juan Carlos, World News

Ireland.com

Irish man's body identified in Spain

The burnt remains of a body found in Mijas, Malaga, in April are believed to be that of a 57-year-old Irish man, according to reports in the local media.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

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