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Kutxabank freezes evictions in wake of suicide of woman

Public protests against banks have grown since Amaya Egaña’s death was reported in the media

PP will present Socialists with proposal to stop home evictions

El País Madrid

A 53-year-old woman commits suicide on the day her property was to be repossessed. Opposition wants proposed law to be retroactive to include those who already lost homes

Police find bodies of mother and daughter four days after their deaths

Elderly mother thought to have died leaving severely disabled child unable to seek help

POLITICS

Catalan election campaign kicks off with independence to the fore

El País Barcelona 1

Mas would conduct referendum on sovereignty

Mas warns of campaign to derail Catalan secessionist drive

Miquel Noguer / Luis Doncel Barcelona / Brussels

“They want to destabilize me,” claims regional premier

BUSINESS

Iberia announces plan to cut 4,500 jobs

Andrew Sim / Miguel Jiménez Madrid

Airline says it is losing 1.7 million euros a day while layoffs will affect 22 percent of workforce.

IAG launches cash offer for rest of Vueling

Andrew Sim Madrid 1

Cost of acquiring extra 54-percent stake estimated at 113 million euros

BAILOUT

ECB president won’t give Spain any risk guarantees

El País Madrid

Bank chief says that it wasn’t up to the ECB to push countries to ask for a bailout

UNEMPLOYMENT

Brussels sees unemployment in Spain at over six million in 2013

Miguel Jiménez Madrid

Economy to shed 500,000 jobs next year

Jobless claims continue to creep toward five-million mark in October

El País / Miguel Jiménez Madrid 1

More than two million of working population not entitled to unemployment benefits. Spending on jobless already close to budget for full year

Jobless rate moves above 25 percent

Constitutional Court accepts suit against labor reform

Julio M. Lázaro Madrid 1

Plural Left, Socialists claim the makeover violates the Constitution in a number of aspects

GAY MARRIAGE

Constitutional Court upholds gay marriage law

El País Madrid

Popular Party filed appeal against Socialist legislation seven years ago

Church attacks gay marriage decision

El País Madrid 1

Clergy questions role of Constitution in Spanish society

ABORTION LEGISLATION

Government seeks change to abortion law

María R. Sahuquillo / Vera Gutiérrez Calvo Madrid

Justice Minister invokes 1985 court ruling establishing that both mother and fetus have rights

CONGRESSIONAL COSTS

The Congressional speaker has said that losses of iPads by deputies are "a little too high." / M. Spencer Green (AP)

Deputies told to keep an eye on iPads

El País Madrid

Lower house only mulling paying to repair broken devices

BUSINESS

La Caixa pulls out of Port Aventura

El País Madrid

Bank sells 50-percent stake to partner for 105 million euros

ROAD SAEFTY

Crisis brings down road traffic deaths and driver numbers

Patricia R. Blanco Madrid

Only one killed over a weekend for first time ever

A reconstruction of José Antonio Coscolín’s arrest by Catalan police in 2008.

Police officer jailed for throwing flashbang grenade on suspect’s lap

Jesús García Barcelona 1

Blast destroyed 25-year-old victim’s testicles during an attempted arrest in Castelldefels

TRAGEDY IN MADRID

Taxmen to help determine if Madrid rave in which four died was overcrowded

Agencies Madrid

Inspectors to check sales tax receipts on tickets sold. City Hall may sue party organizer

A girl lays flowers at a memorial for the four deceased in the Madrid Arena accident. / Beatriz Velardiez (EFE)

Influx of gatecrashers may have triggered Halloween party tragedy, say police

El País Madrid

Capacity at Madrid Arena had been “excessively surpassed,” states report

Madrid Arena denied permits to hold mass events in 2010, says city

Bruno García Gallo Madrid

Inspectors had found deficiencies that comprised public safety

Halloween concert stampede claims fourth teenage victim

F. Javier Barroso Madrid

Belén Langdon del Real, 17, died from injuries sustained in crush at Madrid Arena

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

Tragedy at Madrid rave leaves three dead

PP wants to protect tax evaders who seek amnesty from inquiries

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

Lawmakers plan to amend Penal Code reform to stop investigations into those applying

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

Rosario G. Gómez Madrid

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

PUBLIC CALENDAR REFORM

Changes to the holiday calendar will have to wait until 2014

Manuel V. Gómez Madrid

Most holidays in 2013 won't need to be changed because they fall on Friday or Monday. CEOE businessmen's group says that productivity drops the day after a long weekend

LA LIGA

Cristiano Ronaldo may be forced to play as a striker for injury-hit Real at Levante. / JUAN MEDINA (REUTERS)

Liga sides look for pick-me-up

Rob Train Madrid

After a testing time in Europe, Real and Barça return to domestic drill

Más información

A prodigal Titian returns home

The Prado presents the miraculous restoration of a recently discovered painting of ‘Saint John the Baptist’ by the Venetian master

Titian's John the Baptist on display at the Prado after four years of restoration. / CARLOS ROSILLO (EL PAÍS)

FEATURES

SOCIAL SERVICES

Inside the Red Cross charity shop in the Madrid satellite town of Alcorcón. / CARLOS ROSILLO

“We’re headed back to the Franco era, when people relied on charity”

Carmen Morán Madrid

As the crisis continues to grip, more people are working together to help their less fortunate neighbors. But what is the state doing?

BRANDING

The cost of keeping up a good name

Patricia Ortega Dolz Madrid

Set up to promote Spain abroad, the Foreign Ministry’s ‘casas’ are facing heavy cuts

URBAN PLANNING

Marisol Ayala, the councilor for town planning in Chiclana, in front of an illegal housing estate. / EDUARDO RUIZ (EL PAÍS)

The city planner's illegal home

Pedro Espinosa Chiclana de la Frontera

Half of the 80,000 inhabitants of Chiclana live in houses for which no building permit was granted and find themselves trapped in a nightmarish legal limbo

The town that wasn't meant to be

Álvaro de Cózar 1

Valdeluz should have had 30,000 inhabitants but has only a tenth of that. Residents are making the best of things in wake of property boom turned to bust

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