The Spanish government has announced an austerity plan, including savings of 50 billion euros, so as to bring its public deficit back under the eurozone three percent limit by 2013.

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If you're thinking of getting rid of your split ends or lopping off your fringe why not make some money while you're at it. One business in Spain might be able to help they've built a commercial empire based on exporting human hair for sale to hairdressers and wig-makers around the world.

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At least six people have been killed in Spain after a Spanish tour bus carrying dozens of foreigners collided with a passenger car. Another 40 people were injured, but the extent of their injuries are unknown. The accident happened late last night at San Pol de Mar, near Barcelona. Most of the casualties were reported to be Dutch tourists.

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A car bomb exploded outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos on Wednesday (July 29), injuring 46 people, some of them children, in an attack authorities blamed on the Basque rebel group ETA.

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At age 66 Maria del Carmen Bousada had twins, becoming the world's oldest person to give birth and raising questions about maternity so late in life. Bousada died Saturday at age 69, leaving behind boys not yet 3.

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Bulls gored four runners, seriously injuring two of them, during a packed running of the bulls on the sixth day of the San Fermin festival today.

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Like their peers across Europe, young Spanish voters are showing little appetite for the European Parliament election being held in the country on June 7.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Spain on Monday for a two-day state visit, his first to the country since he took office two years ago. Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy met King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, ahead of a banquet dinner to be hosted in their honour. The face-to-face meeting of Sarkozy and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Tuesday will be closely watched for signs of tension, since Sarkozy was forced to deny reports he had disparaged the Spanish leader as "not very smart" at a recent lunch with French lawmakers.

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Crew members of a Spanish fishing trawler arrived on Monday at the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, after a Canadian Coast Guard ship rescued all 22 people from the burning boat, just as the fisherman were leaping into the water.

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Spain is the champion of Europe when it comes to unemployment.
The numbers are growing rapidly with one million more off the payrolls in a year.
That makes three million jobseekers in a country of 46 million people.
In the capital of Madrid, like in many major Spanish cities, the national employment agency centres are under assault.

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Dieter Brandau y Nieves López repasan las noticias del día.

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Dieter Brandau y Nieves López repasan las noticias del día.

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