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Federer Cruises Past Spanish Debutant in Paris
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Barcelona to tie up Neymar deal
FC Barcelona have announced a deal to bring 21-year-old attacker Neymar to the club after reaching an agreement with FC Santos for the services of the Brazilian ...
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Primera Liga Neymar confirms impending move to Barcelona
Primera Liga champions, have agreed the signing of Brazil striker Neymar from Santos. The 21 year old will sign a five-year contract, the club said, with the player confirming he will sign his contract on Monday. A Barcelona statement read: "FC Barcelona and Santos have agreed to terms for Neymar da Silva Santos Junior. The Brazilian forward will don the Blaugrana strip for the next five ...
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Insight Two things missing on Spains route to recovery
"Spain's adjustment is a work in progress," says Fernando Fernandez, Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Empresas business school. "There is institutional stability and a willingness to reform but growth and employment remain ...
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Zidane Ronaldo will stay at Real Madrid
Ronaldo's future was thrown into doubt earlier in the campaign when he claimed to be unhappy at the club but Zidane, who is set to become Real's sporting director if Florentino Perez is re-elected as president, says he will ...
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70 of Spaniards reject the teaching of religion in school
70% of Spaniards reject the idea of religious education being part of the public school curriculum. The number comes from a Metroscopia Poll which also showed that 50% of Partido Popular voters also objected. The number of students that have chosen Religion fell sharply in the 90's, and sociologists speak of a generation of youngsters indifferent with the church. Now nearly half of ...
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The Mirror has the story of British man who has brought a village in Spain for 45000 €
May 26, 2013 - 12:35 PM by Howard Brereton The Daily Mirror has the story of a Briton who has just bought a village in Spain for 45,000 EUR. It says these astonishing offers are coming up all the time as the crisis-hit Spaniards sell of property which has been the family for generations. Spanish Estate agents say a third of them are British. The paper features 61 year ...
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OSU program immerses social workers in Spanish
Alicia DeBard, an Ohio State university master's student in social work, absorbs a Spanish lesson in a summer semester program taught by Dr. Rene Olate. To help, social workers need to know how their clients are doing. And with a growing Spanish-speaking population in central Ohio, more will need to ask, and understand a client’s response ...
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Spanish flamenco’s coming home… to India
MADRID, May 26 - Spain’s oldest flamenco festival will visit India in 2014, retracing the origins of the classic Spanish musical form, organisers said Wednesday. The Cante de las Minas festival plans its first overseas event in March in Jodhpur, in Rajasthan state - considered the home of the migrant gypsies from whom southern Spain’s flamenco culture sprang. "We were inspired ...
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Nigel Farage has given an interview to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo
The paper opens the piece taking about scaremongering and mentioning the Jeremy Warner piece in The Telegraph, but Nigel Farage, given the hundreds of comments on the interview, has impressed at least some of the Spaniards with his view of ...
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‘The Economist’ this week has published a piece on ‘The Spanish Economy’. It’s called ‘On being propped up’
May 26, 2013 - 7:52 AM 'The Economist' this week has published a piece on 'The Spanish Economy'. It's called, 'On being propped up' and it says that Spain's pain is likely to continue, despite some promising reforms, unless new sources of growth emerge. The article goes on saying the gloom in Spain is almost palpable. It says that Mariano Rajoy ...
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Reed knocks Spanish Springs out of softball playoffs
Tribune photo by John Byrne - Reed catcher Kiara Shirley tags out SSHS courtesy runner Autumn Alexander during a fourth-inning play at the plate ...
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Rihannas European tour starts in Bilbao
RIHANNA launched her European tour yesterday (Saturday) in Bilbao and will be back in Spain a week later for her concert in ...
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Jobseeker who sang his CV on the metro taken on by national TV show
AN UNEMPLOYED graduate who 'sang' his CV whilst playing the Ukelele on the Barcelona metro has been given a job by Spain's Channel 6, La ...
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Spanish Springs is good for Pismo
As residents of Pismo Beach since 1985, my wife and I support the Spanish Springs project.Spanish Springs has been planned for more than 20 years and is not happenstance.Construction would proceed in planned phases, and project sponsors have agreed to mitigate or re-establish affected oak woodlands.Two important features are: firstly, the inland road connecting to Price Canyon Road; and ...
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Brazils Neymar to sign with Barcelona on Monday
Neymar of Santos reacts during their Paulista Championship final first leg soccer match against Corinthians at Pacaembu stadium in Sao Paulo May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho ...
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Black Spanish teacher fired for ‘N-word’
Take the case of Petrona Smith. She claims in a lawsuit that she was fired from teaching at Bronx PS 211 in March 2012 because a seventh-grader reported that she had used the N-word, according to The New York ...
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Knee deep in mud at an English festival Give me Spain any day
Approaching midnight at the Parc del Frum , the Barcelona air was still warm after the heat of the day. On stage, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware was in typically sultry form. At the back of the crowd, Gavin Blane, a 33-year-old Londoner, explained his decision to turn his back on Britain's festival circuit and head abroad."It's the best way to get away from our corporate ...
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- Mer enn god nok for Real Madrid
Zinedine Zidane lovpriser Gareth Bale. Gareth Bale har hatt en fantastisk sesong for Tottenham. Han ble lagets toppscorer med 21 mål i ligaen, og han ble kåret til årets spiller i Premier League. Det har gjort at han er sommerens heteste spiller på overgangsmarkedet. - Fantastisk spiller Real Madrid er en av klubbene som har vært kraftig koblet ...
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Spanish speakers added to scammers list
-; Scammers look for weakness. They appeal to greed, compassion or fear. They'll use any trick. One of their latest targets is Spanish speakers. "It's no different than taking advantage of the disabled or the elderly. Those are populations that are vulnerable, and scammers, they don't care," said Crusita Barrios, immigrant outreach program director at the YWCA of Rock ...
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Ancelotti No Real Madrid contact
The Spanish giants will be on the hunt for a new boss in the off-season after confirming that Jose Mourinho will be released from his contract, with Ancelotti among the favourites to take over at the ...
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Spain drags its feet on cloud computing
Cloud computing, a new computing model seen by many as a major advancement in information technology, has been catching on in many developed parts of the world due to the significant benefits the new system offers, but in Spain, where experts say it may be most useful, it has failed to find a home.
Spain is traditionally known as a country that does not like to take risks and likes to maintain the status quo, for this reason other new technologies such as 3-D televisions and the like have not caught on either. But, whereas 3-D TV is a service that is marketed as enhancing one’s viewing pleasure and therefore costs more, cloud computing is a new service that offers real-world savings financially. Read more
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