News Archive for January 2014
Here you can find articles published in January 2014. Return to full archive here- 01 January
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02 January
- Repsol slashes debt via Shell gas deal
- Major parties start new year on back foot
- Cable car fail: 70 trapped in Barcelona breakdown
- Row over lion cubs at Spanish celebrity fiesta
- VIDEO: What pregnant Spaniards miss most
- Spanish firm halts $5.3b Panama Canal project
- Ten ways to spice up your Spanish life in 2014
- New year kicks off with lower borrowing rates
- New car sales rise on back of subsidies in 2013
- Wanted UK paedophile arrested in Canaries
- Talking Jesus doll teaches kids how to pray
- Spain's opposition calls for secret abortion vote
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03 January
- Panama president warns Spain over canal row
- Jobless figures drop 107,570 in December
- Barça and Atlético jostle for top spot
- Zara king boosts fortune by $9b in 2013
- 'We don't want Gibraltar back': King in 1983
- Coke heads: Smugglers hide drugs under wigs
- Family lock man in car boot on New Year's Day
- Spain joins talks on Panama Canal costs row
- Madrid bans 'dangerous' throwing of sweets
- Spain vows to stand firm on ETA prisoner policy
- 'I want my own life back'
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07 January
- Tired king stammers during military speech
- Japan seeks Spain as ally in China row
- Pic of the day: Spain's crazy Christmas parade
- Ronaldo double keeps Real Madrid in title hunt
- Freak wave kills man who was mourning dead dad
- Emissions plummet in Spain's wind power surge
- Spanish princess appeals fraud case call-up
- Spain's 'Posh & Becks' welcome new baby boy
- Prison for terror suspect arrested in Malaga
- VIDEO: Giant waves hit Spain's Atlantic coast
- 'We respect court decisions on Princess'
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08 January
- 'We won't let smugglers tarnish Gibraltar's image'
- Sacyr makes costs offer in Panama Canal spat
- 'People are more logical in a foreign language'
- No Pants Day: global stripping craze hits Spain
- Meet Princess Cristina: Spain's 'wayward' royal
- Christmas King sued over spinning top attack
- Real Madrid probe Di Maria's 'rude' gesture
- Spielberg plans Aztec epic starring Bardem
- 'Catalonia is a matter for Spain': Brussels
- 'Spanish firm built our bridge upside down'
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09 January
- Police arrest eight in Eta raid that nearly failed
- Welcome back: Messi scores twice in 4-0 win
- Pic of the day: View of Majorca from Barcelona
- China outraged by 'racist' Spanish TV sketch
- 'Most wanted' UK fugitive convicted in Spain
- Spain's borrowing costs tumble in 2014's first sale
- Child films security guards attacking parents
- Real Madrid clears Di María over 'lewd' gesture
- 'We want to put Syrian chemical waste in Spain'
- Syrian opposition holds unity talks in Spain
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10 January
- Real near Cup quarters after Osasuna win
- 'I messed up': Press chief resigns over Eta raid leak
- Fake TIME cover of princess goes viral
- 'Mega skyscrapers could ruin Marbella': Duchess
- Swine flu outbreak: 20 hospitalized in Spain
- How to share news tips with The Local Spain
- Man, 78, kills 92-year-old with walking stick
- Eta prisoner support demo banned by judge
- Where are Spain's biggest expat enclaves?
- 11 January
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13 January
- Prank photo puts Spain's 'rudest' town on map
- Real close in on La Liga leaders Barça and Atleti
- Spanish PM to sell recovery in Obama talks
- Spain ends confusion over ham quality rules
- Rioters trash city in traffic plans row
- Gibraltar cracks down on monkey-feeding tourists
- Venice sues Spain's most 'infamous' architect
- Judge brings forward court date for princess
- Scamming taxi drivers cheat tourists in Madrid
- Spain notches up world organ transplant record
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14 January
- Spain 'satisfied' with Obama over spy scandal
- Weeping Ronaldo finally wins second Ballon d'Or
- Spain grows 0.3 percent in fourth quarter of 2013
- Police arrest 422 in huge fake jobs scam
- Credit squeeze 'killing' 90 Spanish firms a day
- Spain still has work to do on jobs: Barack Obama
- Boss jailed for spying on gay workers' emails
- Off limits: EU bans 'foreign-made' sangria
- Seven memes mocking Messi's red suit fail
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15 January
- Spain's 'Prince Charming' could revive monarchy
- Atlético see off Valencia to reach cup quarters
- City mayor halts street revamp plans after riots
- 'Spain must step up war on corruption': EU
- Spain-UK gas ferry marks 'new era of green travel'
- 'Mango's new plus-sized clothes are too small'
- Spain's low inflation fuels eurozone deflation fears
- Spain's first prostitute union formed in Ibiza
- Fake imam arrested on drugs charges
- Holiday rentals in Spain: what expats should know
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16 January
- Language lovers amazed by interactive map
- Spaniards march against 'wasteful' street revamp
- North Korea steps up Spanish presence
- Ronaldo's Real cruise into Cup quarters
- Spain smashes tourism records in bumper 2013
- 'US mum to blame for death of baby at airport'
- Catalonia seeks right to vote on independence
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17 January
- Horses leap bonfires in controversial festival
- Judge frees fireman arrested in Madrid riot
- Messi stars as Barça cruise into Cup quarters
- Spanish short clinches Oscar nomination
- VIDEO: UK drug baron arrested in Spain
- Bad bank loans hit record high in Spain
- Spain's expat exodus continues
- 'Spain's new abortion law should be scrapped'
- Grateful Ronaldo to buy Real physios new cars
- Israel slams Spain for 'pro-Palestine bias'
- 18 January
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20 January
- Deadline looms in Panama project spat
- Atlético fail to cash in on Barça slip-up
- 'UK benefit cheat must sell Spanish home'
- 'Gays can be cured': Pope's new cardinal
- Hard times? Spain's elite richer than ever
- 'Twenty reasons to go to Spain' goes viral
- Spain's hunters 'torture' unwanted greyhounds
- Here's how Americans can teach in Spain
- 'Give us Spain's abortion law': French pro-lifers
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21 January
- Spanish mag publishes topless Julie Gayet pics
- Barça bosses want new stadium at Camp Nou
- 'Princess Cristina is innocent': Spanish PM
- Public Wi-Fi network blocks gay sites
- Brokeback Mountain opera premieres in Spain
- Homeless man shoots himself in testicles
- Scientists unlock mystery of foaming beer
- Spain overtakes China in world tourism race
- VIDEO: Dancing woman swept away by wave
- 'Human rights key to EU–Cuba relations': Spain
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22 January
- Police arrest hitman who dismembered victims
- Benzema edges Real towards Cup semis
- Spain's abortion law from 'Stone Age': French MP
- IMF revises up Spain's 2014 growth forecast
- Nadal fights off Dimitrov to reach semis
- Six Pakistini police killed escorting Spanish tourist
- Spanish police tweet drug smuggling tips
- Chinaleaks: Beijing blocks Spanish news site
- 'Spaniards are taking our jobs': French builders
- Finding a job won't stop you being poor: EU
- Spain laughs at Madrid mayor's blank CV
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23 January
- Found: lost play by Spanish Shakespeare
- Coca-Cola set to axe 750 jobs in Spain
- Spain's jobless rate back up to 26 percent
- Tello's hat-trick brings Barça close to Cup semis
- Spain to free Madrid bombings middleman
- Struggling Spain enters 'fragile' growth phase
- 'Richer women enjoy better sex': study
- VIDEO: Luxury ski resort burns to the ground
- Fugitive Swiss woman kills sick baby
- Barça boss to quit over fraud claims: Reports
- 'Paedophile-catching burglar' turns himself in
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24 January
- Defiant Barça boss quits over fraud claims
- Own goal: Barça boss falls on his sword
- Cardinal faces court over claim gays can be cured
- Spain's 'anorexic' doll causes outrage in UK
- 'Teen anti-abortion film contest is shameful'
- Spain's unemployment: Seven shocking facts
- Nadal knocks out Federer in Melbourne semi
- 25 January
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27 January
- Spanish-led 'terror cell' uncovered in Morocco
- Spain's faulty 'Air Force One' fails prince again
- Spain may close files on Guantanamo torture
- Blue-eyed caveman from Spain rewrites prehistory
- Spain rakes in record tourism earnings in 2013
- Barça get over boss blues with Malaga win
- 'Spain's abortion law will boost economy'
- 'Argentina turmoil won't affect Spain's recovery'
- 'The crisis is forcing people to be creative'
- Putin slams Spain's human rights record
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28 January
- Top US money launderer fights extradition
- Madrid backtracks on private hospital plans
- Spain to grow 'nearly one percent' in 2014: minister
- 'Cocaine smuggler used her private parts': police
- Ex-UK rugby star gets 17 years for Spain murder
- Top Ten: Spain's best Valentine's Day getaways
- Belly fat putting Spanish children at risk
- Vettel still shocked by Schumacher accident
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29 January
- Jesé strike sends Real Madrid into Cup semis
- Spanish pilot blamed for deadly Cork crash
- Spain's super-architect slips up again
- 'Saint Teresa is helping Spain in crisis': Minister
- Ten things Google wants to tell you about Spain
- One third of Spanish kids at risk of poverty
- European strike to hit Spanish air travel
- Spain's 'black' economy worth 25 percent of GDP
- EU acts to defend voting rights of expats in Spain
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30 January
- Barça and Atlético reign in Cup quarters
- Banking titan Santander reports 2013 profit leap
- Bill-posting pensioner slapped with €155K fine
- Spain 'positive' over 2013's faster recovery
- 'Spain's record wage cuts not enough': IMF
- Spanish 'Banksy' exposes CCTV hysteria
- Barça fans to design Real Madrid's new stadium
- 'Improve your English or forget Erasmus grant'
- Is this the world's hottest gynaecologist?
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31 January
- Corruption-probing newspaper chief sacked
- Unpaid underdogs forego chance of cup glory
- Madrid's €550m 'road to ruin' tops fiasco list
- Doctor fined €210K over illegal AIDS tests
- Spain's suicide rate highest in eight years
- Judge spares Spain's Princess 'walk of shame'
- Spain not merry about European Beer Index
- Spain's top banks enjoy 2013 profit surge