Saturday, 19 January 2013

San Francisco Chronicle
20 Jan 2013
Spain's governing Popular Party was drawn deeper into a web of corruption scandals this past week, after Swiss authorities informed the Spanish judiciary that the party's former treasurer had amassed as much as 22 million euros, or $29 million, in Swiss bank accounts ... About 300 Spanish politicians have been indicted or charged in corruption investigations since the start of the world financial crisis....(size: 3.5Kb)
noodls
20 Jan 2013
The Spanish competitor from group C is still unknown ... Even in the Spanish group the Balkan team took both points and impressively underlined their ambitions at the World Championship ... But the 12.500 fans in the Caja Magica gave a big, big applause for the Spanish team after the final whistle, which also played a splendid match ... It was a sweet victory to beat Spain on Spanish ground....(size: 7.6Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
20 Jan 2013
The Spanish government is considering offering residency to foreigners who buy property worth about $200,000 or more ... "I don't really know if he understands the immigration politics he's getting involved in here," said Marcelo Belgrano, an immigration lawyer in Madrid who shepherds foreigners through the lengthy current application process for Spanish residency ... Spanish officials would not comment on legislation that is not yet final....(size: 34.2Kb)
The Times of India
20 Jan 2013
By Shobhan Saxena. SAO PAULO ... With just 1.8 million people, this tranquil city has a port where ships arrive day and night ... "It is an ideal location to deliver our services to the growing Spanish-speaking market in the US and Latin America. Barranquilla has the most understandable spoken Spanish in South America and excellent infrastructure," says Sutherland's chairman and CEO Dilip Vellodi ... But then Indian IT firms discovered the truth ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Canberra Times
20 Jan 2013
That talent is put to fine use in Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona's The Impossible, in which Watts plays a survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which killed about 230,000 people ... As an Anglicised version of the Spanish family whose tale inspired the film, Watts and Ewan McGregor play Maria and Henry Bennett, British expatriates based in ......(size: 3.3Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
20 Jan 2013
Event. Time. TV. NBA. Mavericks at Orlando. 5.00. FSSW. Men’s college basketball. Navy at Army. 11 am. CBSSN. Indiana at Northwestern. noon. Big Ten. Clemson at NC State. 5.00. ESPNU. Illinois State at Southern Illinois. 7.00. ESPNU. Women’s college basketball. St. John’s at Notre Dame. 11 am. ESPNU. Iowa St. at Oklahoma St. noon. FSSW. Butler at LaSalle. 1.00 ... 2.00 ... 23 and 39 are Spanish stations ... Mavericks at Orlando, 5 p.m., KESN-FM 103.3, KFLC-AM 1270 (Spanish)....(size: 4.0Kb)
The Examiner
20 Jan 2013
World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious global campaign to encourage reading. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people go out into their communities and give half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers ... The World Book Night U.S ... 'The House on Mango Street', Sandra Cisneros (Vintage/Random House) - also in Spanish. 'The Alchemist', Paulo Coelho (HarperOne/HarperCollins) - also in Spanish ... House)....(size: 5.0Kb)
The Independent
20 Jan 2013
... after their neck and décolleté – I remember a period drama in which a feckless husband spitefully told his wife he'd been having a fling with "a Spanish beauty, with a neck line a swan"....(size: 1.0Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
20 Jan 2013
Ten-man Barcelona lost its first match of the Spanish league season on Saturday, squandering a two-goal lead in a 3-2 defeat at Real Sociedad and conceding an injury-time ......(size: 0.9Kb)
IMDb
20 Jan 2013
Mama began its decidedly creepy life almost five years ago as a web short shot in Spanish ... ....(size: 0.5Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
20 Jan 2013
BARCELONA. Espanyol beat 10-man Mallorca 3-2 at home in the Spanish league on Friday as the Barcelona-based side confirmed their turnaround under coach Javier Aguirre ... "I have the sensation that we are getting the doses of good fortune that we need," Aguirre said ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
The Independent
20 Jan 2013
Southern migration. If you're feeling the chill, Classic Collection has some enticing escapes to warmer climes. For £599pp, there's a week in Cyprus at the five-star Le Meridien Limassol Spa and Resort, based on two sharing, with half-board, private transfers and flights from Gatwick on 8 February ... Atlantic drift ... Spanish splendour ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
The New York Times
20 Jan 2013
Barcelona lost its first match of the Spanish league season, squandering a two-goal lead in a 3-2 defeat at Real Sociedad. ¶ Unseasonably cold temperatures, hours of driving rain and no goals marked the opening day of the African Nations Cup in Johannesburg ... The second match, between Morocco and Angola, also finished goalless ... Advertise on NYTimes.com ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)