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Spain's fourth-biggest bank

Bankia set to ask Spain for at least 15 billion euros in aid

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    Members of the International Contact Group. Photo: EFE

ICG's Alberto Spektorowski will appear in the Basque Parliament

Spain's Justice minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said last week that peace brokers referred to as the 'Currin group' are not welcomed in Spain....

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Genetic testing

Scientists turn to genetics to prove existence of Yeti

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Ever since a 1951 expedition to Mount Everest returned with photographs of giant footprints in the snow, there has been...

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Eurozone crisis

Spain struggles to meet regions' 36 billion-euro debts

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Spain's weak banks and overspending regions are at the heart of the euro zone debt crisis. There are fears that expensive...

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Eurozone crisis

International institutions will oversee audit of Spanish banks

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Spain's weak banks and overspending regions are central to the European debt crisis as many investors believe the government...

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Jet-size Solar Impulse plane

Experimental solar-powered plane begins maiden transcontinental flight

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The mission is described as the final dress rehearsal for a round-the-world flight with a new and improved aircraft in...

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Eustat data

Visitors to the Basque Country down by 7% in April 2012

Eustat

According to the Basque statistics office Eustat, the 2012 Easter Holiday figures compared to 2011 registered a 13% decrease...

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Constitutional Court

Ruling on Sortu could be delayed until next month

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Few concrete steps

EU summit leaves unresolved what to do to spark economic growth

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EU Summit

Rajoy raises the alarm, current borrowing rates too much for Spain

AP

Mariano Rajoy suggested the European Central Bank resume some of its emergency measures, such as buying the bonds of weak...

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Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

Patti Smith, Wanda Jackson, Julieta Venegas in the Guggenheim Museum

A concert series between July 3rd and November 13th under the name of 'Women's Nights' will also show live at the Basque...

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Midtown Manhattan

Woman claims being fired for being 'too hot' at work

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Nonick 2012

MuchDifferent to present the '1000 Player FPS' Guinness Record

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2011

  • The best photos of 2011
  • JANUARY - Suicide bomber kills at least 35 at Moscow airport
  • JANUARY - Thousands of Egyptians demand resignation of President Hosni Mubarak
  • JANUARY - Egyptians seek million-strong march for democracy to oust Mubarak
  • FEBRUARY - Egypt celebrates announcement of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation
  • FEBRUARY - New Basque leftist party Sortu files charter with Interior Ministry
  • FEBRUARY - Spain MP Uxue Barkos announces she has breast cancer
  • FEBRUARY – New Bilbao Metro route to Basauri opens
  • FEBRUARY - 'The King's Speech' crowned best picture at Oscars
  • MARCH - Top speed on Spanish motorways cut to 110km/hr
  • MARCH - Explosion at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant
  • MARCH - Earthquake 8.9 on the Richter scale causes massive tsunami in Japan, kills more than 1,000
  • MARCH – Basque savings banks BBK, Vital and Kutxa announce cold merger to create Kutxa Bank
  • MARCH – Chinese toddler is 60kg kg at three years
  • MARCH - Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies at the age of 79
  • MARCH - Spanish footballer Gerard Pique confirms relationship with Shakira
  • APRIL - Japan puts Fukushima nuclear crisis on par with Chernobyl
  • APRIL - Ibai Uriarte discharged from hospital after several transplants
  • APRIL - 'Zeu kalakari, gu kalakari': Korrika comes to an end in Donostia
  • APRIL - Prince William marries Kate Middleton
  • MAY - Obama announces Osama bin Laden killed in US led operation
  • MAY - Two earthquakes rock Spanish town of Lorca
  • MAY - Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn faces sexual assault investigation
  • MAY - Thousands fill Spain's squares emulating Cairo pro-democracy protests
  • MAY - New Basque coalition Bildu surges in Basque local elections
  • MAY - Europe trades blame over killer cucumbers, bacteria infection kills 16
  • MAY - Sarkozy's father confirms Carla Bruni is pregnant
  • MAY - Spanish golf champion Severiano Ballesteros dies
  • MAY - FC Barcelona win Spanish league, Champions League and Club World Cup
  • JUNE - Greek protesters march on parliament
  • JUNE - Shakira brings her hot dance to Bilbao's San Mames stadium
  • JUNE – Bildu's Juan Karlos Izagirre, new Mayor at Basque city of San Sebastian
  • JUNE – Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei released on bail
  • JUNE - Otegi and Diez Usabiaga to be tried for 'Bateragune case'
  • JUNE - Donostia-San Sebastian will be European Capital of Culture in 2016
  • JUNE - Balenciaga Museum opens in Getaria
  • JULY – Police raid Spanish copyright society SGAE, arrest nine people including chairman Teddy Bautista
  • JULY - Hugo Chavez announces he will begin chemotherapy treatment
  • JULY - 'News of the World''s last edition says 'Thank You and Goodbye'
  • JULY - UN declares famine in southern Somalia
  • JULY - Gunman kills 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack in Norway

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