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Barcelona vs Man. United Final UEFA Champions League Tonight Preview 28/05/2011
28/05/11 at 07:26am GMT+1
Both Carles Puyol and Victor Valdés lifted the UEFA Champions League trophy in 2006 and again in 2009, yet there is no danger of a squad already weighed down with winners' medals taking anything for granted ahead of another final meeting against Manchester United FC.
World News
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Last item: 28/05/11
To see young Maria's video go viral was wonderful, but to see her given the chance to perform with her idol live on stage now ... simply AMAZING!
The Russian-born, 25-year-old learned Monday at a taping of David Letterman's show that she won the coveted spot based on a photo shoot months ago in Hawaii. She's been in the wildly popular issue five times before.
The X Factor USA will have the world’s biggest prize ever to be given away on a talent show, it has been calcimined. Simon Cowell today launched the start of the build up of The X Factor in the states by revealing that the winner of the show – open to anyone aged 12 or over
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Business
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Last item: 31/03/11
The royal couple was welcomed by Spain's Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia at the Pardo palace, where they will lodge during their stay.
The spokesman justified the decision with "the situation of violence and uncertainty" in the North African country
Politics
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Last item: 23/03/11
While all the countries in the coalition share a political goal—Gadhafi's removal from power—"not everyone agrees whether this is the military aim," said Shashank Joshi, an analyst with London-based Royal United Services Institute
“The Spanish stance is in line with the EU stance and we have repeatedly said that we believe in international justice; we have the full confidence in the tribunal and we are awaiting justice through its work.”
The party called Sortu, which is Basque for 'create', was unveiled last week amid suspicions by many in Spain, especially conservatives, that it is just a repackaged version of banned Batasuna.
Society
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Last item: 24/06/11
Every year thousands of poor Africans try to reach Spain because they see Europe's southern gateway as the ticket to a better life.
Police in Barcelona used violence Friday to force protesters from a camp in the city’s Plaza Catalunya before Saturday’s Champions League final.
Crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) can confirm that another successful arrest under Operation Captura has been made in Tenerife.
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Culture
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Last item: 15/03/11
The Code of Canon Law prescribes the penalty of excommunication for those who are directly involved in procuring or performing an abortion
For many years, parents were awarded for having large families. Baby-stealing is alleged to have begun during Franco's long rule.
It was a day for the dogs, and about every other pet, throughout Spain as pet owners flocked to churches to have their pets blessed on the day of San Anton, the patron saint of domestic animals
Property
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Last item: 11/03/11
Britons could take advantage of the country's struggling economy by securing a good deal on a residential investment or a commercial property. According to the Bank of Spain, house prices have fallen by 17% since 2007, while it has also been reported that there are more than one million homes currently unsold on the market.
Most Spaniards have ended up feeling like losers after taking advantage of a mortgage bonanza in the housing market boom that burst in late 2007
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: “Following the collapse and liquidation of Ocean View Properties International Ltd, Staffordshire Police is in receipt of a number of complaints alleging fraud against the company."
Tourism
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Last item: 24/06/11
"But the company referred to offers no such service and the advertisers are not the owners of the flat - the money goes straight to the fraudsters," says Facua.
The body of a Scottish tourist found 26-year-old man was discovered in his hotel room
Zapatero has said the fourth quarter will show positive growth which would pick up steam in 2011 but he warned that job creation would be "far from what we need and desire."
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Sport
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Last item: 27/04/11
El Clasico is a match between the Spanish national league’s two strongest teams – FC Barcelona and Real Madrid – they play twice every season!
Schalke 04 may have a decent home record in the competition but Manchester United are unbeaten in this season's Champions League.
There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid is known as El Clásico.
Work & Jobs
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Last item: 31/01/11
Spain's jobless rate has risen sharply during the economic downturn and is the highest in the eurozone.
The number of illegal people arriving by boat to Spanish coasts decreased 50.1 percent in 2010, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Tuesday
Unemployment in Spain had reached 4.1 million workers, or 20 percent, at the end of 2010
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Health
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Last item: 18/02/11
The research, which uses data gathered by the National Statistics Institute (INE) from 1975 to 2005 in all the Spanish provinces (except Ceuta and Melilla), divides patients into three age groups - those under 45, those between 45 and 64, and those over 65.
New Market Research Report: Spain Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report Q1 2011
It demonstrates how to make a single vaccine that could potentially provide permanent immunity to all influenza," Wilson said in a telephone interview.
Recent Headlines
Socialists lead over Conservative PP falls to 3% in latest poll
Instituto Opina poll shows Socialists popularity fall 1% since late May
Real estate agents are offering travel and months of free mortgage as incentives
Brokers get more aggressive
Internet users are more active, have more friends and are less depressed
According to a report by ‘Proyecto Internet Catalunya’
Various Catalan authors decline to attend Frankfurt Book Fair
Upset over government’s initial policy to not consider Castilian literature as Catalan culture
Tiny black flies with serious bites cause problems along rivers in Catalonia
Authorities advise covering up and avoiding riverbanks at dawn and dusk
French striker Thierry Henry flew to Barcelona Sunday to sign 4-year contract
Says “I have chosen Barça for … its style of soccer, stadium and history”
Education
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Last item: 18/07/10
The coordinator of the Self Concept Consulting Issues and Feeding Habits in the Center for Applied Psychology, UAM, Dr. Sepulveda, says "it is necessary to investigate the specific risk mechanisms, such as diet or body dissatisfaction, it can facilitate the further development of an eating disorder during their university studies. "
This service is in addition to the 336 libraries and 11 'mobile libraries' that exist in Catalonia and which last year received a total of 23,357,973 visitors.
The grouping of these universities "represent the same model, which strongly connects quality teaching and excellence in research," Ripoll said, who appeared before the media with her counterparts from the other three centres.
Finance
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Last item: 11/03/11
Moody's believes there is a meaningful risk that the eventual cost of the recapitalisation effort could considerably exceed the government's current projections," the ratings agency said in a statement.
The decision coincided with the arrival one month ago of a new head of Barclays' retail banking business in Spain, Jaime Echegoyen, who was formerly the chief executive of Bankinter, it said
Some of the Iranians who have been affected by the recent Spanish banks' move have called on Tehran to take retaliatory actions against the Spanish embassy and other institutes in Iran.
Economy
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Last item: 01/03/11
The most well known measures of Inflation are the CPI which measures consumer prices, and the GDP deflator, which measures inflation in the whole of the domestic economy.
Economic cutbacks are forcing Barcelona's Liceu opera house to stall its season-start in 2011-2012 by one month and may oblige the famed theater to introduce temporary staff layoffs,
Spanish government says reaches agreement with unions on pensions raise retirement age from 65 to 67
The Labour Ministry said the government, trade unions and employers had reached an agreement in 'principle,' though details still remained to be worked out
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Food & Drink
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Last item: 31/01/11
Spanish chef Ferran Adrià unveiled plans for his elBulliFoundation campus in Cala Montjoi, Spain near elBulli
The Spanish Young Chef of the Year 2011 competition is open to students and chefs already working in industry up to the age of 25
The brand, which will cover the conference, Blanquilla and Limonera varieties produced under the DO’s auspices, is aimed, according to its backers, at identifying the Catalan province of Lleida as being synonymous with Spanish pears
Leisure
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Last item: 27/01/11
Following on from her massive payday gigs in Brazil, Amy Winehouse has been confirmed for her first European appearance of 2011.
More than 50 million albums sold, 4 massive tour around the world, countless sold-outs, 7 Grammy Awards, 6 BRIT Awards, a dozen awards from MTV, 5 in the NME ... All this in just over 10 years career. Many would sign the trajectory of Coldplay.
On November the 6th, rock icons Bon Jovi will be playing an exclusive show in Madrid. The Teatro Circo Price will live its biggest night ever, on Saturday the 6th of November, with an extra special performance by one of the most important rock bands of all time.
Transport
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Last item: 08/04/11
Irish airline Ryanair are also in dispute with AENA over the new computer system at Gran Canaria airport
The Spanish airport strike dates are April 20, 21, 24, 25 and 30, 2011 May 2, 14, 15, 19 and 20, 2011 June 13, 23 and 30, 2011 July 1, 2, 3, 4, 15 and 31, 2011 August 1, 15 and 31, 2011
Most of the students are now stranded in Lanzarote because other flights are either full or too expensive
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Legal
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Last item: 04/03/11
Thousands among the 600,000 affected travellers - along with consumers' associations and state prosecutors - were preparing lawsuits against hundreds of air controllers, who could face jail terms of up to 12 years.
Websites offering access to copyright-protected material such as music, movies, video games or software. A judge could then have ordered the closure of offending websites.
Michael Dermot McArdle's wife, Kelly Anne Corcoran, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Marbella in February 2000
Energy
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Last item: 05/03/11
But higher world oil prices and a possible rise in borrowing costs on the part of the European Central Bank later this year is threatening Spain's fragile economic recovery.
The coal law allows Spain to favour Spanish domestic coal for generation purposes, under legislation designed to safeguard EU member states' security of energy supply
Despite the solar fallout, Spanish solar systems are delivering billions of kilowatt-hours to the country. Wind power is now bigger than hydro and coal in the country.
Environment
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Last item: 12/05/11
Eight people perished in the deadliest tremor in Spain in more than five decades, a spokeswoman for the regional government of Murcia said, revising down an earlier toll of 10 dead without explanation
So that 2am will be 3am thus begins the summertime.
The researchers said that distinct markings on the bones show that they fell victim to cannibalism.
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Utilities
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Last item: 26/06/10
In its note, the EC lists the major deficiencies detected, in general, in the member states that have been warned.
All its facilities have been reduced to a pile (the demolition had cost 2.6 million euros), from which will emerge a new stadium allegedly linked to the application of the 2016 Olympics.
The session is divided into twelve sectors: air conditioning, heating, water, gas, electricity, automation, telecommunications, renewable energy, security, regulation and control, fastening tools and services.
Sci—Tech
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Last item: 23/03/11
Full countries include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea getting iPad 2 in April.
Apple today announced the iPad 2, the second iteration of its tablet PC juggernaut that has taken the mobile computing market by storm in the last year.
Officials said 49,000 visitors attended the event in 2010.
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Marta S. Wendlinger | One 2 One Fashion
Politics of co-operation
La Ciutat Invisible is an innovative co-operative shop/library in Barcelona's Sants district
Nicholas Fogarty | Fog over Catalonia
Tattoos and graffiti
BCNeta’s 'hermanos helados' are waging a war they cannot win
Nicholas Mead | The Big Picture
Taking the demo out of democracy
Democracy in Catalonia
Marta S. Wendlinger | One 2 One Fashion
Marta's 'Fashion Savvy or Fashion Faux Pas' section on Barcelona Reporter
Last review: Joan Puigcercós
Alex Chumillas | Advice from Alex Chumillas
Inheritance and gift tax in Spain
(ISD) Impuesto de Sucesiones y Donaciones: what you need to know Spain News
fast food Lisburn
Patrick Collins
Barcelona a magnet for international students
Planet Churro
Guiris and the nationalist cause
The Presidential Puncture
Josep C. Vergés article on Racó Català submitted by Rob Trenator
Susan Pedalino
Jobs in Spain - What you need to know
KSL - Kate Sharpley Library
The Great Swindle: 'This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich'
MECAL
Cortometrajes Españoles Presentados Por MECAL En Venezuela
Barcelona a magnet for international students
Planet Churro
Guiris and the nationalist cause
The Presidential Puncture
Josep C. Vergés article on Racó Català submitted by Rob Trenator
Susan Pedalino
Jobs in Spain - What you need to know
KSL - Kate Sharpley Library
The Great Swindle: 'This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich'
MECAL
Cortometrajes Españoles Presentados Por MECAL En Venezuela
