Photo gallery: This is Las Vegas Sands that will create Eurovegas in Madrid

El Confidencial (Saturday, September 15, 2012) .- The US casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands, has decided that Madrid will be the place for his Eurovegas project, a huge hotel and casino complex. Here are images from...

THE BEST SPANISH UNIVERSITY IS AMONG TOP 201-300 IN THE WORLD

Spain’s universities ranked low in world

D. Gutiérrez (Saturday, August 18, 2012) .- Despite the difficulties involved in trying to evaluate educational institutions, a great number of national and international academic ranking lists are created every year in order compare standards,...

FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN FIRES

Photo gallery: The wildfires in Catalonia

El Confidencial / Agencies (Tuesday, July 24, 2012) .- The fires in the province of Girona in Catalonia, near the border of France in northern Spain, which started on Sunday, have killed four and left many injured. Large areas, particularly near the interior...

SPAIN'S MOST POPULAR FESTIVAL

San Fermin fiesta begins in Pamplona

THE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON SPAIN’S CULTURAL SECTOR

No money, no culture

King’s friend Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein accused of usurpation

Philip Roth, Prince of Asturias laureate

Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz: "The world needs Europe and the euro"

The 'indignants' return to the streets

SPANISH CHURCH MURAL RUINED BY WELL-INTENDED RESTORER

Photo gallery: Ecce Homo not the only talked-about art restoration

(Wednesday, August 29, 2012) .- The failed, although well-intended, restoration of the mural Ecce Homo in the church of Santuario de Miseriocordia de Borja in Zaragoza, Spain, was widely reported by media in Spain and abroad last...

ACCORDING TO BLOOMBERG BILLONAIRES INDEX

Spain’s Ortega replaces Buffett as world’s third-richest

Bloomberg (Tuesday, August 7, 2012) .- Amancio Ortega, the septuagenarian Spaniard who founded retailer Inditex SA (ITX), today bumped Warren Buffett from his perch as the world’s third-richest person. The 76-year-old tycoon’s...

Photo gallery: San Fermin in Pamplona

El Confidencial (Monday, July 9, 2012) .- The famous festival in Pamplona, in northern Spain, was celebrated for a week between July 6 and 14 with parties and events in honour of San Fermin, the patron-saint of the region of Navarra. Here...

ONLY 27 PERCENT OF SPANIARDS SAY THEY CAN SPEAK ENGLISH

Madrileños and their English skills

PENSIONERS SUPPORT YOUNGER GENERATIONS FINANCIALLY

The elderly pay high price for crisis

Government reopens Franco memorial

How Spain could change after a rescue

Two fateful weeks for the Spanish king

15-M movement revived in times marked by general discontent