Spain's centre-right government will announce billions of euros in savings measures on Friday, using its first decrees since sweeping to power at November elections to give the nation a foretaste of tougher austerity to come. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has pledged to turn Spain's battered economy around by meeting tough budget deficit reduction targets while reforming a broken labour market and pulling the country out of a prolonged slump.

Barcelona (Spain), Aug 22 : Spain's Banco Sabadell acquired nearly all of the assets and certain liabilities of Florida-based Lydian Private Bank under the terms of an agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

The FDIC closed down Palm Beach-based Lydian Private Bank Friday and reached a loss-share agreement with Banco Sabadell under which the Spanish bank's Sabadell United Bank unit will take over the failed institution.

AISoy 1, world's first robot designed with its own conscience and life which is capable of teaching and entertaining people who buy it, has been designed by a Spanish company

AlSoy Robotics, the first of its kind, it has been made with the objective of giving life to it along with all other emotions and also decision making capacity. This 25 cm high and 1.5 kg heavy robot will perform all the activities just as any other living being requiring nourishment, love, acknowledgment, independence and cooperation.

It has been reported that several people were injured Friday morning in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain, after one bull charged runners several times.

The Daily Telegraph has reported that the run was the third in this year's festival, which lasts for nine days. Rain had slicked Pamplona's streets, making running awkward.

Officials said on Thursday that the second day the bulls ran in Pamplona, Spain, saw seven people injured, including two who were gored.

The Irish Times has reported that one man was gored in the thorax and listed in serious condition while the other man was gored in the left leg, an injury health officials said wasn't life-threatening.

Bollywood doll Katrina Kaif was supposed to fly down to Mumbai for a day to become a part of the "Raajneeti" success party Wednesday from Spain, where she is shooting for Zoya Akhtar's upcoming venture "Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara".

However, Katz had to drop her plans due to the stormy weather in Spain.

The "Raajneeti" group has a lot to rejoice about, but the film's director Prakash Jha wanted no celebration until his lucky charm Katrina was available.

According to the reports, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn Friday endorsed Spain's efforts to right its financial difficulties.

The New York Times quoted Strauss-Kahn as saying in Madrid, "The potential for growth in Spain is huge, as has been shown in the past few years. Now you have problems, everyone has problems."

Strauss-Kahn met with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to review Spain's budget crisis.

Drinking alcohol at times keeps illness at bay, especially in case of women and non-smokers, says a recent study.

The above study involved a thorough analysis of personal data and health backgrounds of people affected with Alzheimer's disease in comparison with healthier ones of the same age and gender.

It has been reported that researchers in Spain found the number of teenagers in Europe with excessively low weight was higher than expected.

The rate of teenagers with excessively low weight was 3.9 percent among boys and 4.8 percent among girls, found University of Granada researchers, led by Enrique Garcia Artero. In fact, the percentage among girls was higher than the 3.0 percent found for obesity.

The finding is important because it is easier to make lifestyle changes in teens than in adults, Enrique Garcia Artero said.

It is well known that alcohol is harmful to human body. But every thing in this world comes with a mixed blessing. According to a study, it has been found that occasionally drinking may reduce the probability of developing Alzheimer's disease, particularly for female and non-smokers.

Bollywood filmmaker Farhan Akhtar said that his sister Zoya will shot her next directorial venture "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" in Spain.

On his Twitter page, Farhan, who is producing the flick, posted that the shooting will be started soon.

"Countdown to Zoya's shoot has begun. Very exciting...2&1/2 months in Spain with family, friends and football fever," Farhan also wrote.

"If you liked 'Dil Chahta Hai' and 'Rock On!!', you're going to love this," he added.

According to scientists from Spain, who claim that they have developed a clone of fighting bull that is fierce and shall possess the killer abilities of its parent.

The cloned version of the animal has been named as 'Got' which means "a glass" in Valencian, was born Tuesday, as the news channel BBC reports.

It is a 53-pound calf which will remain as fierce as his father and shall indicate a strict business machine. To achieve this feat the tem of scientist took a span of three years as stated by the project leader, Vicente Torrent.

Researchers in Spain have said that top-down management, an autocratic boss who does not listen to employees -- increases healthcare costs.

How a person's work is organized can hurt health from heart disease to mental health, lead author Clara Llorens Serrano of the Trade Union Institute of Labor, Environment and Health in Madrid said.

The survey involved 7,612 employees in Spain from October 2004 to July 2005.

A span of five minutes with any gorgeous lady can accelerate the level of cortisol hormone to increase up to a higher level. This is the hormone that creates stress. This has been found out in the recent study done by University of Valencia. This effect even more dangerous in case of the person who says women are out of league discussion as per the study.

The hormone Cortisol is produced when body undergoes physical or psychological stress and it can cause heart disease. The research team has taken 84 males for a test. They had been tested by sitting in a room and two more female strangers are allowed to go in front of them.

Researchers in Spain have said that not only does smoking not make people thinner but it is linked to weight gain.

Nicotine poisoning was linked to weight gain, lead author Francisco Javier Basterra-Gortari of the University of Navarra, said.

Published in Revista Espanola de Cardiologia, the study further found that after tracking smokers, non-smokers and those who quit, those who had never smoked put on the least amount of weight over a 4-year period.

Havana, April 19:  Alejandro Robaina, Cuba's best known tobacco farmer, has died at age 91, state media reported Sunday.

He was part of a family that has been growing tobacco for four generations in San Luis near Pinar del Rio in western Cuba.

Robaina is widely credited with maintaining the quality standards of Cuba's legendary cigar tobacco even after the communist revolution 50 years ago. Havana cigars have remained the world's most highly sought and expensive.

It has been reported that a social networking website where anyone can express a dream and the members commit themselves to fulfilling it is drawing thousands of people in Spain.

The website -- www. lapapaya. org -- started by Colombian architect Felipe Velazquez seeks to make the highest number of wishes come true for "everyone who is ready to dream."

According to the reports, the members known as "papayos" commit themselves to making the dreams come true, but on the condition that the person asking for a favour offers his time and effort to make wishes of three other people come true.

Researchers in Spain have said that about 8 percent of employees devote more than 12 hours per day to their employer to escape from personal problems.

Spending more than 50 hours per week working could indicate work addiction, says lead author Mario Del Libano of the Jaume I University in Castellon de la Plana in Spain.

Del Libano and colleagues confirmed the usefulness of Dutch Work Addiction Scale, a new scale for measuring addiction to work.

Already on a roll, the Spanish team has settled its old score with England as the Spanish beat England by 2-0 in an interesting encounter. Although, the British have already secured a place for themselves in the Semi-final but the fact that the England team was beaten 4-2 in January by Spain and they haven't been able to file a victory against them in the past 35 years remains intact.

Pau Quemada converted a penalty corner into a goal in the first half for Spain while Eduard Tubau added on to the leading the second half for Olympics silver medallist Spain's third victory in the tournament.

According to data released by the Spanish Land and Mercantile Registrars Association, Spanish home sales dropped 24.6 percent during the lat year.

The data unveiled on Thursday indicated that 423,114 home sales were recorded in 2009 in the country, with used-home sales dropping 27.8% and new-home sales falling 21.8%.

The collapse of the realty business is one of the key aspects exacerbating Spain's financial disaster, since construction had largely powered the Spanish monetary boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.