Barcelona - Journalist and author Maruja Torres, 65, has been awarded the Nadal Prize, Spain's oldest literature award, media reported Wednesday. The prize was awarded for the 65th time overnight in...

MADRID -- Twelve African immigrants living in precarious conditions in Spain have posed nude for a calendar the sales of which will help them survive for a while, the daily El Pais reported...

Madrid - A year ago, 5-year-old Mari Luz Cortes left her home in the southern Spanish city of Huelva to buy a bag of crisps. She never returned. Two months later, her body was found floating in a...

As both a five-star wine spa hotel and a Project of National Interest, as deemed by the Portuguese government, the opening of The Yeatman has been highly anticipated. The property is set for launch...

Lisbon, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) The Portuguese economy dropped into technical recession in the second half of 2008, though it registered a small growth of 0.3 percent in the year, said Vitor...

Portucel Soporcel is preparing for major expansion in the U.S., as it completes a $754 million project for two of the largest Metso paper machines in the world at new mill south of...

http://www.afxnews.com LISBON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Portugal's economy will contract by 0.8 percent this year after growth of 0.3 percent in 2008, the Bank of Portugal forecast on Tuesday in its...

LEAWOOD, Kan., Jan 06, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Madeira Therapeutics announced today that Peter Joiner, Madeira president and chief executive officer, will present an overview of the company at the...

www.symbiansigned.com . SlovoEd is a series of top-quality monolingual and bilingual dictionaries for S60 3rd Edition devices. There are over 120 dictionaries available for 29 languages. It is...

Portuguese Foreign Ministry on Sunday called on Israel and the Palestinians to work for a solution to their conflicts and stop fighting in the Gaza Strip. It made the call one day after Israel began...

The family of a former Taranaki man who died in Spain two days before Christmas is anxiously waiting for answers about his death. Benjamin (Benny) John Coulson, 31, died in a Spanish hospital, in La...

Madrid, Jan 6, 2009 (CNA).- The Anti-AIDS Independent Committee in Spain has called for behavioral changes among homosexuals in order to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, as 2007 data confirms that the...

Prague - The Czech Senate, the upper house of Czech parliament, may start the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty later than was planned as the ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) want to link the...

January 6, 2009 7:30 AM EST CORDOBA, ARGENTINA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/06/09 -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- On December 23, Amper Central Solar S.A. (Moura, ...

Taichung, Jan. 6 (CNA) Four local government heads from central Taiwan will leave for Hong Kong and Macau Wednesday to promote central Taiwan tourism and sales of the area's native products. Taichung...

LISBON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Shares in Portugal's Sonae Industria, the world's second-biggest wood panel maker, climbed 7.89 pct on Tuesday, tracking gains in other Sonae stocks, dealers said. At...

Andy Murray 's bid to retain the Qatar Open title got off to a solid start as he put in a workmanlike performance to beat Spain's Albert Montanes 6-2 6-4 in the first round of the tournament.Murray...

Portugal's favourable climate has seen golf tourism take off in Portugal over the last few decades, but it is only now that tourist developments have started to target riding enthusiasts in the same...

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-(Dow Jones)- RWE Innogy GmbH, a unit of RWE AG, said Tuesday that through its Spanish subsidiary Agrupacio Energias Renovables S.A.U., it has acquired a 23.75% stake in the Spanish wind farm...

Ships from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan can request the escort services of the Chinese mainland's navy fleet in Somalian waters, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a regular press...

VALLADOLID, Spain : The Macías Picavea primary school hardly looks like the seat of revolution. But this unassuming brick building in a sleepy industrial town has become a battleground in an...

India on Monday shared with Spain the evidence linking Pakistan-based elements to Mumbai's terror carnage even as the two countries set up a joint anti-terror mechanism to deal with this global...

MACAU -- As reported by the BBC: "Macau's landscape shows the far reach of human ambition - land reclamations have joined up the two islands of Coloane and Taipa to make a gambling and shopping...

The Legislative Assembly of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Monday approved the general outline of the government-drafted state security bill with the majority of the assembly members...

Macao saw its gaming revenues for the whole of 2008 surged 31 percent year-on-year to record high of 108billion patacas (13.7 billion U.S. dollars), local television station TDM reported on Monday....

Madrid - The death toll of traffic accidents has fallen to the lowest level in 44 years in Spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Monday. In 2008, at total of 2,181 people were killed...

Petrol retailers BP, Galp and Repsol reduced their prices at midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday following falls in the price of crude oil on the international markets.At BP garages diesel standard fell by...

The Portuguese motorway operator Brisa is planning to install 40 devices to detect vehicles circulating on the wrong side of the road. Ten of the devices have already been installed, and a total of...

RESINEX, leading European plastics distributor has been appointed by Dow, to distribute the "Dow Wire & Cable" portfolio in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal as of January 1st, 2009. This geographic...

News ) - More nations must take in Guantanamo inmates once the U.S.-run prison closes, the U.N.'s torture investigator said Monday, insisting that many were held simply because they were "in the...

Barcelona - Atheist groups in Barcelona will follow the example of a bus advertising campaign under way in London, placing ads denying the existence of God on two buses running in Spain's...

Portugal's telecommunications sector regulator Anacom has issued a EUR 25,000 fine to Vodafone Portugal for overcharging. The operator charged a figure nearly two and a half times higher than the...

Brazilian midfielder Edson Sitta put Nacional in front with a deflected shot after 14 minutes but Porto equalised through Brazilian striker Hulk after goalkeeper Bracalli parried a Lisandro Lopez...

M ADRID, Spain — Arjen Robben scored a spectacular goal Sunday to help Real Madrid beat Villarreal 1-0 in the Spanish league and continue the defending champions’ revival under new coach...

Madrid - Real Madrid and Sevilla now share third place in the Spanish Liga after Sunday's games. Real beat Villarreal at home, Sevilla were surprisingly held to a 1-1 draw by bottom team Osasuna....

NEW DELHI: Recognising the pioneering role played by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) to combat climate change, Spain today announced an assistance of 75,000 Euro for its 'Lighting a...

MADRID, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Valencia football club reacted quickly on Sunday to deny there are plans to sell Spain international David Villa at the end of the current season. The club released an...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- A 114-year-old Los Angeles woman has become the oldest person in the world, hospital sources said on Saturday. Gertrude Baines, a resident of a nursing home, ...

MADRID--Spain on Sunday urged Israel to end its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, a Spanish foreign ministry spokesman told the Europa Press news agency. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel...

MALACCA: Christmas Day may be over but Santa is just about to arrive at the Portuguese Settlement in Ujong Pasir. A RM10mil church project is being proposed for settlement — and it comes as...

Sporting Lisbon SETUBAL (SW) - Sporting Lisbon moved into second place in the Portuguese Liga Sagres thanks to a 0-2 win at Vitoria Setubal on Saturday.This season's club top scorer Liedson put the...

LISBON: A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 115. Maria de Jesus died in...

President George W. Bush 's administration was told Friday that a request made in early December to resettle an unspecified number of detainees had been rejected."Assessing those requests from a...

LISBON, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- More Portuguese lost their jobs last year, especially during September-November, the Institute of Work and Job Training said Friday. In 2008, a total of 408,600 people...

The most ambitious and innovative solar power project in the world kicked off Monday in this white-walled village in the southern Portuguese municipality of Moura, one of the most impoverished areas...

A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great-grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world’s oldest person died Friday at the age of 115, officials...

Tensions mounting between native job-seekers and immigrants competing for a declining pool of work in Spain will intensify in 2009 as generous benefits for those laid off reach the end of their fixed...

Madrid: Spain will become the first major buyer of surplus carbon dioxide emission rights from eastern Europe in an attempt to comply with the Kyoto Protocol, the daily El Pais reported...

Macao's trade deficit for the first 11 months of 2008 reached 24.57 billion patacas (3.1 billion U.S. dollars), according to the figures released on Friday by the city's Statistics and Census Service...