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Spanish justice minister resigns after failure of abortion law

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón announces he will be giving up his seat in Congress and leaving politics altogether following shelving of bill

PM confirms government will shelve abortion law reform

Justice minister’s draft legislation, which even divided his own party, would have ended terminations on demand, and taken Spain’s regulations back to 1980s

The square after its unofficial renaming. / SIMON HUNTER

Madrid’s Margaret Thatcher Square gets unofficial renaming

Simon Hunter Madrid

Group of youngsters sticks new signs in recently inaugurated plaza to protest Spain’s rampant youth unemployment

TOURISM

Spain reports record tourist
figures in August

Amanda Mars Madrid

Industry complains that growing numbers of visitors are staying in unlicensed apartments rather than hotels

POLITICS

Ruling Popular Party rejects new Socialist chief’s call for federal state

Secretary general María Dolores de Cospedal describes plan as “change to the Constitution, not a mere reform”

Pedro Sánchez sets out to conquer Spanish primetime

Socialist Party chief is upping media appearances to connect with a wider audience and transmit message of change

One victim, with the knife still in his back, awaits an ambulance.

Police hunt still on for man who stabbed five people in Lleida

Lluís Visa Lleida

Residents of the Catalan city are on alert for a “dark-skinned man, around 35” who remains at large despite massive deployment

TAMING THE TRAFFIC

Madrid mayor wants to restrict car access to Chueca and Malasaña

Officials hope these popular neighborhoods will join their ongoing drive to reduce traffic in the city center before the spring of 2015

Traffic in Madrid’s Alcalá street. / Samuel sánchez

Madrid to close off new section of city center to vehicles

Any non-residents caught on camera entering Sol or Palacio areas of capital will be slapped with a €90 fine

British homeowners optimistic after Andalusia government ruling

Manuel Planelles / Esperanza Codina Seville / Málaga

Thousands of properties without building permits in Málaga and Almería, many of them owned by non-Spaniards, are likely to be saved

Spanish ebola patient brought to Carlos III hospital in Madrid

Manuel García-Viejo, who contracted the virus in Sierra Leone, is the second Spanish missionary to be flown back for specialized treatment

Former Madrid premier appears in court over hit-and-run incident

El País Madrid

Esperanza Aguirre, who could run for city mayor, under scrutiny for disobeying an officer trying to give her a traffic fine on Gran Vía

Thousands of discarded tires pile up near a residential estate in Seseña. / BERNARDO PÉREZ

Seseña’s apocalyptic tire mountain

The town on the Madrid-Toledo border is home to a pile of more than 100,000 tons of abandoned rubber

CATALAN INDEPENDENCE BID

“Voting does not divide us, it unites us,” says Catalan regional premier

Miquel Noguer Barcelona 2

Artur Mas calls on Spanish government to allow independence referendum in wake of Scottish result

Rajoy: Scots avoided “serious consequences” of separation

El País Madrid

Spanish prime minister releases video message expressing satisfaction over result of Scottish referendum

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EDITOR’S PICK

Fernando Losada still takes pesetas at his Madrid store. / uly martín

Would you like to pay in pesetas?

Over a decade after Spain joined the euro, a handful of stores are still accepting the old currency

The man who hunted down Spain’s Republican exiles

Loreto Urraca has spent the last decade uncovering the dark history of her grandfather, who spied for Franco

A new life for Juan Carlos

Mábel Galaz Madrid

After giving up the throne, Spain’s former king seems keen to maintain an informal public role

TENNIS

Toni Nadal: “I’m no sexist. Men’s and women’s tennis are different”

Rafa Nadal’s coach voices objections to hiring of Gala León as Davis Cup captain

A 360-kilometer charity swim around Mallorca

Vicki McLeod speaks to Richard Krugel, who set himself a tough challenge to raise money for the Allen Graham Foundation

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LATIN AMERICA

The race to save Mexico’s endangered languages

The country’s wealth of 68 indigenous tongues is almost unmatched anywhere else, yet many are at risk of extinction

Venezuelan cartoonist fired for criticizing Chávez

Rayma Suprani’s dismissal revives rumors about new owners of ‘El Universal’

Mexico opens Chicontepec oilfields to foreign firms

Home to 40% of the nation’s reserves, the region holds much promise but also poses huge technical difficulties

Mexico’s most elusive mogul

Juan Diego Quesada México DF

Controversy regarding various accidents at his mines surrounds businessman Germán Larrea

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