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JUDICIAL SCANDAL

King avoids Dívar by bowing out of Supreme Court ceremony

Mábel Galaz Madrid

Palace cites trip to Jeddah to visit grieving Saudi royals as excuse

Chief justice to announce “emphatic” career decision

José A. Hernandez de Toro Madrid

Dívar “very hurt” about expenses scandal but admits situation is untenable

DEBT DRAMA

IMF calls on Spain to raise VAT and cut public-sector wage bill

Sandro Pozzi New York

Agency warns of serious overrun in deficit targets and calls for tax rebates on mortgage payments to be eliminated

Yield on benchmark 10-year bond hits critical seven-percent mark

Merkel: Spain was “irresponsible” over real estate bubble

Juan Gómez Berlín 3

German chancellor says she has no magic wand to bring euro crisis to happy conclusion

Rajoy makes plea for greater European integration in Van Rompuy letter

Crisis causes public debt ratio to double since 2008

El País Madrid

Figure hit 72.1 percent of GDP in the first quarter, and will rise when bank bailout is factored in

BANKING CRISIS

Members of Spain's "Indignados" movement hold a news conference after filing a lawsuit against Bankia bank in Madrid. / ANDREA COMAS (REUTERS)

15-M protestors press fraud charges against Bankia managers

Agencies / Carmen Pérez-Lanzac Madrid 2

Movement wants jail sentence for Rato after bank’s stock market listing “swindle”

Rato offers to waive payoff package from Bankia

EFE Madrid

Ex-chairman wants release from non-competition pact

TOWARD THE END OF ETA

Roberto Manrique, who survived the Hipercor bombing of 1987. / L. RICO (EL PAÍS)

A victim of ETA's bloodiest attack meets the perpetrator

Ania Elorza Vitoria

Next Wednesday will mark the 25th anniversary of the bloodbath at a Hipercor supermarket. Roberto Manrique sat down with convict Rafael Caride Simón as part of a government program

PROFILE

Monsignor "dog with a bone"

Luz Sánchez-Mellado

The bishop of Alcalá de Henares upset many with his Good Friday homily, in which he openly criticized homosexuality, dividing his congregation in the process

EURO 2012

Fernando Torres celebrates after scoring against the Republic of Ireland in Gdansk on Thursday. / VASSIL DONEV (EFE)

The Kid is all right

Luis Martín / José Sámano / El País Gdansk / Madrid

Fernando Torres scores twice in Spain’s 4-0 demolition of Ireland

BANKING CRISIS

Smudge on the dotted line: bank duped customers with share offer

José Luis Estévez Santiago de Compostela

Galician lenders investigated over preferential selling sometimes without proper consent

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE

Clashes continued on Friday morning, including this road block near the Sotón de Hunosa mine. / EFE

Have striking miners gone too far?

Agencies / Araceli Guede Madrid 1

Civil Guard investigates whether train accident in Asturias was caused by strikers

Miners clash with police over cuts

SCIENCE

National science center biologist "made up" data in science papers

Rafael Méndez Madrid

Researcher at Doñana National Park suspected of inventing facts and citing a "ghost" co-author

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Jobless turning to grandparents as lifeline, says poll

Clara Blanchar Barcelona

Thirty percent of Catalan seniors helping other family members make ends meet

REAL ESTATE

Home prices suffer record declines at start of year

El País Madrid

Property values have now fallen more than 25 percent from their peak before the bubble burst

Foreign aid budget cut by half due to austerity drive

Miguel González Madrid

Government slashes into funds for developing countries

Ministry backtracks on healthcare entitlement restrictions

Emilio de Benito Madrid

Legal residents who don't contribute to Social Security will not be left out of system. Law will get tougher on residents from European Union who neither work nor study

Charity is the only medicine, PP tells foreign residents

REPORTAJE

Salem's luxury property in La Moraleja, Madrid / CARLOS ROSILLO

The tale of the 'Spanish' millionaire who escaped the fate of Mubarak

Manuel Altozano / Mónica Ceberio Belaza Madrid

Hussein Salem is facing extradition to Egypt on money-laundering charges

GENDER VIOLENCE

He can also be a victim

Joaquina Prades Madrid

Men subjected to domestic violence mostly suffer in silence, sometimes with tragic consequences

Spaniard killed in combat in Syria

Ignacio Cembrero Madrid

Victim was one of four Muslim men from Ceuta who entered strife-torn nation through Turkey

POLITICS

PP leader in Andalusia steps down after four failures to win power

Isabel Pedrote Seville

Final disappointment came when conservatives won most seats but failed to form Socialist-ousting majority

Penalties eyed for highway prostitution

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Clients and prostitutes may be fined

ROCK OF CONTENTION

Prince Edward begins Gibraltar visit amid tension over fishing rights

Miguel González Madrid 4

Chief minister makes surprise claim that British territory is “under attack” as Spain appeals to EU over colony's tax system

TENNIS

Djokovic bows to King Rafa VII

El País Madrid

Nadal breaks Borg’s French Open record with his seventh Roland Garros win

Más información

Spanish riders’ British hat-trick

MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 categories all claimed by Spaniards at Silverstone

Jorge Lorenzo (c) celebrates his MotoGP win at Silverstone with Casey Stoner (l) and Dani Pedrosa. / GEOFF CADDICK (EFE)

FEATURES

ARCHITECTURE

The view through a grille from the top of Torrespaña. / ULY MARTÍN (EL PAÍS)

Madrid's 30-year-old giant lollipop

Lara Otero Madrid

Built to coincide with the 1982 World Cup, the Torrespaña communications tower came to symbolize a Spain confident about its future

POLITICAL CRISIS

Is something rotten in the state of Spain?

José Luis Barbería / Fernando Garea Madrid

Spaniards are shocked and disappointed at the failure of the main parties and the country’s leading institutions to do something about the economic crisis

ART

Raphael’s Self-portrait with Giulio Romano. Romano was the painter’s best friend and right-hand man. / LOUVRE MUSEUM

Portrait of an ardent genius

Iker Seisdedos

Five years in the making, the Prado Museum’s big summer show focuses on the under-explored late career of the great Renaissance painter, Raphael

EURO CRISIS

A European Cold War?

Claudi Pérez

The refusal of Greek voters to accept Brussels' austerity measures are in danger of creating two opposing blocs within the EU, led by Germany and France

RELIGION

Artist Eugenio Merino’s work showing a Muslim, Christian and a Jew praying provoked protests in Israel in 2010. / LUIS SEVILLANO (EL PAÍS)

Blasphemy ain’t what it used to be

Juan Cruz 1

Offending religious feelings is still a crime under the Penal Code. Singer Javier Krahe has recently been prosecuted for the offense

PROSTITUTION

Out of sight, out of mind: women working in shadows

Rebeca Carranco / María R. Sahuquillo

Prostitution remains in a legal vacuum. By cracking down on kerb crawling, Spain’s politicians are simply avoiding the real issue: regulation, or prohibition