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Spanish banks meet unions to discuss huge layoffs
Representatives of two of Spain's biggest banks are meeting with labor unions to discuss massive layoffs, hours ahead of protests by bank workers in ...
Madrid health center directors quit en masse
More than 300 directors of some 140 health centers in Madrid resigned from their posts Tuesday to protest plans to partly privatize the region's ...
Cavani's hat trick topples Messi from AP rankings
It took something very special to topple Lionel Messi from his position on top of the first AP Global Football rankings survey of 2013, and Edinson ...
Messi wins record 4th world's best player award
Lionel Messi became the first four-time winner of the FIFA Player of the Year award after shattering the world record with 91 goals last year for ...
Column: Ronaldo, not Messi, should be Ballon d'Or
The Ballon d'Or went to the wrong guy. Lionel Messi most definitely is the world's best footballer. He will, for many fans of football become the best ...
Large Spanish protest against health privatization
Thousands of Spanish medical workers marched through downtown Madrid on Monday to protest against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize their ...
Trio of bid cities give 2020 Olympic files to IOC
Exactly eight months before the vote, the race for the 2020 Summer Games moved into a crucial phase Monday when the three candidate cities submitted ...
Spain's 'El Nino' lottery hands out $1.1 billion
A lottery showered €840 million ($1.1 billion) on ticket holders in five regions of Spain on Sunday, in the midst of a deep recession and high ...
Spanish police seize ancient plundered vase
The owner of an antique shop in Spain was arrested after police investigators found a vase there dating back to the late second century B.C.
Spain beats Serbia in Hopman Cup final
Spain defeated Serbia 2-1 to win the Hopman Cup for the fourth time on Saturday. Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues won the deciding mixed ...
Only 1 Spanish Parador hotel to close instead of 7
Only one of Spain's luxury Parador hotels will close, instead of seven, as earlier planned, following negotiations between the parent company and ...
Basque group announces it is dissolving
The Basque nationalist group known as Batasuna — legal in France but banned in Spain — has announced that it is dissolving after 11 years. It leaders ...
Spanish police arrest 17 suspected pimps
Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested 17 people on suspicion of smuggling Nigerian women into Spain and forcing them into prostitution ...
Bolivia expropriates Spanish energy subsidiaries
President Evo Morales nationalized the Bolivian electricity distribution subsidiaries of the Spanish energy company Iberdrola in a public ceremony ...
Stomach bug knocks Nadal from Australian Open
Just when Rafael Nadal had recovered from a knee injury, a stomach virus has delayed his return to tennis by a couple of months. Nadal announced ...
P.M. Rajoy says Spain faces tough year ahead
Spain faces another tough year as it grapples with recession, a deep financial crisis and 25 percent unemployment, its prime minister said Friday.
Shares plunge for Spanish bailed-out bank Bankia
Shares in Bankia, the bailed-out Spanish bank, lost almost a fifth of their value Thursday after officials with the nation's bank bailout fund said ...
Rafael Nadal's comeback delayed by stomach bug
Rafael Nadal's return to competition has been delayed by a stomach virus. The Spaniard was scheduled to play in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi ...
Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel
A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel's parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior ...
Hurting Spaniards celebrate Christmas lottery wins
Winners of Spain's cherished Christmas lottery — the world's richest — celebrated Saturday in more than a dozen locations where the top lucky tickets ...
Christmas comes slowly to austerity-hit Europe
Across Europe, holiday "shoppers" this season are doing more browsing than buying. Retailers remain hopeful for a last-minute burst of Christmas ...
Naomi Watts shared 'Impossible' with family
To play a mother torn from her husband and sons by the 2004 tsunami, Naomi Watts sure wasn't going Method. The British actress took her partner Liev ...
Column: Messi & Co. will win without coach
Even if Lionel Messi and his Barcelona teammates had no coach to guide them, you would think long and hard about betting against perhaps the greatest ...
Spain fines top 3 telecoms companies $159 million
Spain's National Competition Commission has fined top telecommunications operators Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange a total of €120 million ($159 ...
Former IMF boss in Spain court over alleged fraud
Former IMF managing director Rodrigo Rato has appeared before Spain's National Court to answer questions over his stewardship of Bankia, a major bank ...