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ROYAL ACCIDENT

Spanish King Juan Carlos talks to the press at San Jose hospital. / PACO CAMPOS (AFP)

King makes public apology for hunting-trip incident

Monarch makes unprecedented statement after being discharged from hospital. “I’m very sorry, I made a mistake and it won’t happen again,” he tells assembled press

King criticized after breaking hip on elephant-hunting expedition

Madrid Socialist leader Tomás Gómez breaks party ranks with “abdication” proposal

FINANCIAL MARKETS

Spanish stocks suffer their worst session of this year

Blue-chip Ibex 35 falls 4 percent to levels seen in March 2009. Bundesbank chief says not ECB’s job to buy Spain debt

HEALTHCARE

Passing on a debt to society: seniors to be charged for their medicines

Pensioners will have to pay up to 18 euros per month under new plan

REGIONAL POLITICS

Socialists and United Left put forward coalition deal in Andalusia

Leftist grouping must first put proposed deal to a vote by its own members

YPF EXPROPRIATION

Repsol boss: seizure is smokescreen to hide Argentina’s problems

El País Madrid 7

Rajoy expresses his “profound discontent” over expropriation. Spanish oil firm to claim eight billion euros for its stake in YPF

Argentina announces expropriation of Repsol oil subsidiary YPF

El País / Francisco Peregil Madrid / Buenos Aires 1

President Kirchner declares that country’s hydrocarbon industry is a sector of “public interest”

EURO CRISIS

Bank of Spain, IMF skeptical on feasibility of deficit targets

El País Madrid

Central bank recommends value added tax hike if Budget slips

Spanish markets remain under cudgel of mistrust

Andrew Sim / El País Madrid

Risk premium hits Rajoy-rule high as Ibex 35 index plunges to lowest level in over three years

BUSINESS

Iberia planes grounded by a one-day strike by pilots on Monday. / ÁNGEL DÍAZ (EFE)

Iberia strikes blow to pilots with 20-percent wage slash

El País Madrid

Move is part of series of measures to cut costs and increase productivity by 25 percent

BUSINESS

Spanish builder takes his African mega-project snub to World Bank

El País Madrid

Former colony Equatorial Guinea rejects controversial entrepreneur's massive housing development as "unreal"

ROYAL SCANDAL

King sails into Nóos corruption morass through son-in-law’s emails

Jesús García Barcelona

Urdangarin correpondence suggests monarch provided help to set up America's Cup yachting team

PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS

Minister wants to boost high-school class sizes to 36 students

J. A. Aunión Madrid

Increase in pupils and fewer substitute teachers to save three billion euros

CORRUPTION

PP mayor of Santiago resigns over tax fraud accusations

El País Santiago de Compostela

Conde Roa maintains he did not benefit from non-payment of VAT on real estate deals

TOWARD THE END OF ETA

Government blocking attempts to reopen talks with ETA

Six months after terrorist group's renunciation of violence no contact has been made

Only 26 percent of most needy dependents are in care homes

Carmen Morán Madrid

Government plans changes to simplify how dependency is measured

LA LIGA

After handing out goals, Barça and Real fight back in record style

El País Madrid

‘Pichichi’ top scorer contenders Ronaldo and Messi come to their teams’ rescues against Sporting and Levante

FORMULA 1

Alonso accepts “realistic” ninth place in China Grand Prix

Simon Hunter Madrid

Ferrari proves to be well off pace as Spaniard loses championship lead to Lewis Hamilton

FISCAL REFORM

Cabinet tightens the screw on tax dodgers

El País Madrid

Government hoping draft law on tax fraud will bring in 8.171 billion euros this year

Spaniards will have to declare all overseas bank accounts

El País Madrid

New measure forms part of campaign against tax fraud

STOLEN BABIES

“I defended Sister María. Now I don’t know what to believe”

Adoptive father of Pilar Alcalde, supposedly taken from her mother, testifies in court, while nun accused of organizing the illegal adoption issues statement denying guilt

Nun accused of stealing babies stays silent

Victims’ hopes resting on sister’s testimony as government announces census of missing children

SPAIN'S COASTLINE

The Algarrobico hotel, in Carboneras. / EFE

Demolition of Algarrobico hotel proves to be less than a blast for PP

Environment Ministry tears up Socialist accord to raze building to the ground

Más información

Calçots Sweeten Winter Gastronomy

The General Strike was two parts civilised calm to one part chaotic unease.

LABOR LAW

New legal broom for domestic service

But reluctance to register as legal employees persists

FEATURES

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Pharmaceuticals such as Bayer, Sanofi and Abbot are boycotting an auction for suppliers that the regional government of Andalusia has announced, hoping to bring prices down. / M. ZARZA

Why billion-euro debts mean disaster for Spanish healthcare

José Luis Barbería San Sebastián

Regional governments have run up huge bills with pharmaceutical companies, who are saying that enough is enough. Spending cuts could see an end to the high standards of care in the sector

AUSTERITY IN ACTION

Social services hung out to dry

Carmen Morán Madrid

Central government cuts its contribution, leaving cash-strapped regional and municipal authorities to make do and mend in providing care to the vulnerable

CONSUMER ISSUES

In Spain, 75 percent of companies currently have a Twitter account. / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ (EL PAÍS)

How complaining on Twitter can solve all your problems

Conscious of the damage a bad online reputation can do, companies are starting to deal with customers directly on social networking sites

Redesigning the city in your own image

Bicycle lane badly laid out? Design another. You want a public square where now there isn't one? Create it yourself

GAMBLING

A scene from The Pelayos, with the actors Lluís Homar and Daniel Brühl seated at the table.

The clan that ruled at roulette

The story of the Pelayo family, whose almost-infallible statistical gambling method won them over 1.5 million euros, is now being brought to the big screen

EDITOR'S PICK

A child’s-eye view of the Civil War

Psychologist’s new book analyzes pictures by Republican evacuees

Sounding the last post for the letter

National Library show looks at five centuries of correspondence

ARCHITECTURE

No more changes of plan

Court tells Madrid City Hall to redo housing project after it altered the original design

THE HOMELESS

Down and out in Catalonia

C. S. Baquero / B. Cia Barcelona

The number of people living rough in Barcelona has risen by 32 percent since 2008

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Disinvesting in education

It cannot be casually asserted that cutbacks will have a “neutral” effect on the quality of teaching

OPINION

Grand pact: what for?

Pacts between political parties in Spain seem hard to reach - but are they desirable anyway?

EDITORIAL

Deliberate act of plunder

The YPF expropriation begins a conflict that will have serious consequences for Argentina

OPINION

A little more respect

Under fire from populist peers, Rajoy will be hoping for a victory for Hollande in France

Nadal's fortress faces Djokovic test

Spaniard defending more points than any other player on European circuit

Spain pools resources for London

With 99 days to go until the Olympics, the final places are still being disputed

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