24 mayo 2015
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LIVE RESULTS – Guayem’s Ada Colau wins in Barcelona

With more than 80% of the vote count complete in Madrid mayoral race, the PP’s Esperanza Aguirre is neck and neck with Manuela Carmena from Ahora Madrid

Spain’s two-party system in play at today’s municipal, regional polls

Javier Ayuso Madrid

The more than 30-year hegemony enjoyed by the Popular Party and the Socialists could end today, with emerging parties such as Ciudadanos and Podemos likely to play key roles in pacts

PP candidate for regional premier Cristina Cifuentes. / L. S.

Election day – in photos

Spain’s politicians cast their votes at the nationwide polls

Aguirre’s divine intervention and the discreet vote of Ana Botella

The tightest electoral race for decades in Spain has not passed without anecdotes

Última hora

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Are you rich, poor or average? Calculate your share of the pie

An application launched by the OECD lets you compare your income levels with those of the rest of the population

Inequality between rich and poor has hit record highs, OECD warns

Carlos Yárnoz París 2

In Spain, 18% of the population lives below the poverty line, twice as many as before the crisis, according to a new report

Muslim women praying outside the Great Mosque in Mecca. / AFP

“In Saudi, you need a man”

Female engineers working on a Spanish-led project to build the Riyadh subway reveal what life is like for them in the Middle Eastern country

Adou's parents in an interview with Efe news agency. / Carlos de Saá (EFE)

Spain grants ‘Suitcase Boy’ temporary residency permit

El País / EFE Madrid

Child from Ivory Coast may soon be reunited with his mother in Fuerteventura after being found by Ceuta border agents on May 7

Lucía and Hugo: the most popular baby names in Spain

Jaime Prats Valencia

But classics such as José and María continue to top the charts for the population as a whole, according to newly released 2013 figures

A man checks his cellphone as a young woman walks by. / Santi Burgos

The anti-social networks

Spanish authorities say Twitter is not doing nearly enough to help locate users who stalk or harass others

Passengers at Barcelona’s main Sants station. / ALBERT GARCIA

Barcelona rail services brought to a standstill after control center failure

El País / Dani Cordero Barcelona

Services returning to normal after IT fault affects 80,000 passengers. Two incidents last month also saw disruption

ECONOMY

Depreciation of euro helps Spanish exports hit record high in March

Sales to foreign markets surpass €23 billion for first time as trade deficit drops to €890 million. State secretary says improved competitiveness also played role

BUSINESS

Ryanair claws back passenger traffic

Irish low-cost carrier makes up for decline in Spain in 2014 with strong growth in first four months of year

Iberia to launch flight auction site

Move marks fresh attempt by airline to sell tickets through online bidding after failure of first project two years ago

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EDITOR’S PICK

After Seville and Osuna, ‘Game of Thrones’ eyes Girona

But HBO is yet to confirm news that it will be filming in the Catalan city, after TV firm chief made revelation in interview

A river of drugs

Andalusian waterway Guadalquivir is one of the main entry points for Moroccan hashish into Spain, and security forces are struggling to keep up

A 15-year quest to do a good deed

Bureaucratic hurdles saw a businessman have to wait over a decade before he could make a €14m gift to the city of Seville

CINEMA

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Sean Penn and Javier Bardem star in Barcelona-shot thriller ‘The Gunman’ as ’80s horror classic ‘Poltergeist’ comes back to haunt us in a new reboot

Spanish toes, linguistic woes

Ben Cardew risks his relationship with his Spanish girlfriend as the two enter into a war of words – ones that exist in one language, but not the other

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LATIN AMERICA

FARC suspends ceasefire after 26 rebels die in air force attack

Deaths represent new setback to efforts to resolve decades-old conflict between guerrillas and Colombian government

Guatemalan president fires three ministers as political crisis deepens

Calls grow louder for Pérez Molina to step down over corruption allegations

Brazilian blogger who was investigating child prostitution found decapitated

Minas Gerais journalists union asks police to probe crimes against reporters in state

Rising star from Chávez era among suspects in US drug probe

DEA investigators believe Aragua state governor was paid off by a narco kingpin

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