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TRAGEDY IN MADRID

Friends and family of Katia Esteban, one of three girls who lost their lives at the Madrid event, mourn on Friday. / Claudio Alvarez (EL PAÍS)

Hundreds gatecrashed Madrid
rave where three died in stampede

El País Madrid

Police searching for person who threw flare that sparked panic Madrid City Hall to stop renting installations for mega-parties

PRESCRIPTION CHARGE

Rajoy at odds with Madrid on copayment

El País Madrid

Deputy Prime Minister: “This is not the government’s model.”

Madrid reveals plans to farm out healthcare to private sector

El País Madrid 1

Six new hospitals will be put up for tender as part of new premier González's austerity drive

Madrid premier threatens to close down regional television channel

PP leader wants to push through a layoff plan at money-losing station Telemadrid

BARCELONA PROTESTS

Court reopens probe into police action at 2011 march

Jesús García Barcelona

Over 100 people filed complaints following police charge in Plaza de Catalunya

TERRORISM

French Batasuna representative captured at road checkpoint

El País Bilbao

Martín is wanted in Spain on charges pertaining to her membership in an illegal group. A court in France paved the way to have her extradited on charges related to an outlaw party

ETA willing to finally disband if PP changes its penitentiary policy

Inmates must be given chance to rejoin society, says "abertzale." Government in no hurry to change prison policies

Izaskun Lesaka, one of ETA’s remaining chiefs, held in France

Woman terrorist believed to have been behind communiques sent by organization since last year’s ceasefire

BARCELONA DEMONSTRATIONS

A security guard topples over as demonstrators invade a branch of Zara in Barcelona on Wednesday. / MANU FERNÁNDEZ (AP)

Masked protestors ransack Zara store during strike

El País Madrid

Anarcho-syndicalist labor groups also storm branches of Apple and Fnac

PENSIONS

Government takes flak over proposal for new pension system reform

Overhaul put forward before previous amendments have taken effect

EURO CRISIS

Rajoy seeking to avoid bailout request this year

Government sources cite recent improvement in the Treasury's financial position

“We can’t allow Spain to become unraveled,” says US president

El País Madrid

Helping Spain and the rest of Europe is in the United States’ best interest, says Obama

Bardem’s comments make him the “big villain,” says PP spokesman

Rocío Huerta Madrid

Actor claimed that "so much unemployment suits the government"

Police detain a man protesting at an eviction in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, in November 2011. / CLAUDIO ALVAREZ (EL PAÍS)

Banks have turned courts into "collection offices," say judges

Associations call for changes to be made to laws covering evictions

BANKING SECTOR

BBVA’s earnings fall 47 percent due to real estate asset provisions

El País Madrid

Bank has set aside 2.869 billion euros for possible property losses as default rate in Spain rises to 6.5 percent

JUSTICE

Political parties should be subject to criminal charges: justice minister

El País Madrid

Gallardón may also consider measures to bar people who have been implicated in offenses from standing for office

REGIONAL POLITICS

Catalan election video banned on grounds of nationalist bias

Pere Ríos / El País Barcelona

Regional government campaign "leads voters," says panel

ECONOMY

Spanish economy shrinks by 0.3 percent in third quarter of 2012

A. S. Madrid

The latest contraction is slightly less than forecast the day after minister's claim that recovery is on the way

Spain is “emerging from the crisis,” says labor minister

El País Madrid

Comments come on heels of jobless rate moving above 25 percent for first time on record

Jobless rate moves above 25 percent for the first time on record

More than 5.7 million people in Spain are looking for work. Youth unemployment hits 52.3 percent

ANTONIO MEÑO CASE

Antonio Meño with his parents at a hearing in October 2010. / Emilio Naranjo (EFE)

Man who spent 23 years in coma due to medical negligence dies

El País Madrid

Family awarded damages last year after two-decade legal battle

PUBLIC FINANCES

VAT revenues climb almost 12 percent due to hikes, minister says

El País Madrid

Improvement helps reduce fall in collections in the first nine months of the year

No charges for woman who killed handbag robber with car

María L. R. will be fined for traffic misdemeanor if court decides to take no further action

IMPACT OF THE RECESSION

PP boosts financial aid to keep toll road operators from going broke

Measures include participating loans with one-year grace period for turnpikes "on the verge of bankruptcy"

DIPLOMACY

Foreign minister to negotiate PP youth leader’s release with Cuba

García-Margallo and Rodríguez will meet next month in Cádiz after Carromero waives right to appeal

BANKING CRISIS

IMF asks for non-viable Spanish banks to be wound down

Luis Doncel Brussels

Troika approves government’s efforts to restructure the banking sector

TRAGEDY AT SEA

Emergency workers place one of the rescued immigrants on a stretcher. / a. carrasco ragel  (EFE)

“I was saved by a man who grabbed on to my shirt. Now he is dead”

One of the immigrants rescued from the sea last week tells her tragic story

Rescue operation of migrant boat delayed by similar sighting

Moroccan authorities picked up 60 people in Strait shortly after alarm from EU Frontex agency

TRANSPARENCY

Helen Darbishire, the executive director of Access Info Europe. / SAMUEL SÁNCHEZ

NGO must pay €3,000 for requesting government information

Five years ago Access Info Europe asked how Spain’s authorities were combating corruption

Madrid to ditch clause stopping AIDS sufferers driving taxis

City Hall relents after 44,000 sign petition, but regional rule to same effect remains in force

IMMIGRATION

Justice Ministry has backlog of 430,000 nationality requests

Heading the list of applicants are immigrants from Morocco, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru

SPORTS

Spanish swimming chief faces fraud allegations

Rob Train / El País Madrid

Federation president suspected of conning 600,000 euros out of governing body

Más información

Atlético faces test of title intent

Diego Simeone’s side travels to Mestalla in major threat to perfect start

Atlético goal machine Falcao will aim to continue his run in Mestalla. / ULY MARTÍN (EL PAÍS)

LATIN AMERICA

Colombia’s biggest drug lord captured in Argentina

El País Madrid

Authorities bust "My Blood" Londoño after he held a meeting with Los Zetas

Masked men firebomb Bolivian radio station

Mabel Azcui / El País Cochabamba / Madrid

Seventy-eight-year-old owner left in critical condition

Chávez replaces defense minister

Maye Primera Caracas

US government designated Rangel Silva in 2008 as FARC collaborator

Panamanian leader repeals duty-free-zone land law

Ana Murillo San José (Costa Rica)

Martinelli repealed bill after riots

FARC keeps up attacks despite ongoing peace talks

Six officers were attacked over the weekend on the Pan American Highway

Piñera suffers major defeat

El País / Rocío Montes Madrid / Santiago de Chile

Sixty percent of electors stayed at home after mandatory voting law is repealed

FEATURES

PROFILE

José Antonio Griñán speaking at a municipal Socialist convention in Málaga. / Carlos Diaz (EFE)

“My future is in Andalusia”

El País Madrid

Speculation is rising that Andalusia regional premier José Antonio Griñán has his eye on Socialist leadership

UNEMPLOYMENT

Too old to have a future?

Around a fifth of Spain's 5.7 million unemployed are 50 or over - human capital that society does not know how to exploit. Experts say it is vital to maintain a working routine and that the web offers the best employment opportunities

EQUALITY

Microsoft Spain president María Garaña. / LUIS SEVILLANO (EL PAÍS)

The exceptions that rule

Having made it in a male-dominated world, the female bosses of some of Spain's leading tech companies say they want to help more women reach top positions

PROTEST MOVEMENTS

The eyes and ears of 15-S

An army of citizen journalists is ensuring demonstrations are recorded. Using an array of cameras and methods, they are getting footage out to the public

LANGUAGE LEARNING

Classes in one of Spain's bilingual schools. / ÓSCAR CORRAL (EL PAÍS)

Are native teachers necessarily the best?

Spanish schools are seeking increasing numbers of foreign language educators but experts stress the importance of classroom expertise over nationality

MUSIC EDUCATION

Music cuts sound sour note

Drop-out rates soar as government funding dries up and school fees increase

Giant-killing on Liga menu

Rob Train Madrid

King’s Cup gives lower-division teams a day in the sun — or a place in history books

Márquez to make MotoGP mark

Nadia Tronchoni Phillip island

Young Spanish rider claims Moto2 crown ahead of move to Pedrosa's Repsol team

EDITOR'S PICK

MUSIC

Twisting at the Price

A new CD boxed set relives the dawn of rock'n'roll in Spain

Telephones and trending topics

Paula Vázquez caused a storm on Twitter when she posted her phone number

Juan Cruz wins National Cultural Journalism prize

One of his primary concerns has been the task of reporting

GASTRONOMY

Diverxo puts on its new show

Chef David Muñoz says he wants to create "the Cirque du Soleil of haute cuisine"

ART

Canvases and cameras

Roberta Bosco Barcelona

A number of shows study film and painting's history

CINEMA

Javier Bardem: “The others are villains”

The outspoken Oscar winner is back as the baddie in new Bond flick ‘Skyfall’

The artists and the models: animating a Galician mystery

El País / EP Madrid / Santiago

Creating stop-motion 3D animation 'O Apóstolo' began with a live-action film

This week’s movie releases

Nick Funnell Madrid

Crime writer Ethan Hawke puts his family at risk in horror movie 'Sinister,' while 'Submarine' is a British comedy gem

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

A charge of one euro per prescription

The PP panned the measure when it was introduced by Catalonia but Madrid has followed suit

OPINION

Journalism that changes the world

Only a major news organization like 'The New York Times' could have mounted such a thorough investigation of the Chinese Prime Minister’s wealthy associates

EDITORIAL

The two visions

EDITORIAL

In the midst of the crisis

We do not need frivolities such as that of Minister Báñez to climb out of the crisis

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