Madrid - The tulip entered Europe through Moorish Spain five centuries earlier than previously thought, according to a Spanish study made public on Thursday.
The study by the University of Cordoba and the School of Arab Studies contradicts the generally accepted version that the flower, which is now a symbol of the Netherlands, arrived there from the Ottoman Empire, passing through Central Europe.
Madrid - Spain's attorney-general said Thursday he would oppose a request by judge Baltasar Garzon to investigate six US officials over torture claims at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba.
Garzon made international headlines in 1998 for issuing an international arrest warrant against General Augusto Pinochet over the deaths of Spanish citizens in Chile.
He has now asked prosecutors to advise whether he should investigate a complaint lodged by an association defending prisoners rights in March.
Madrid - The presidential election at Real Madrid has been set for June 14, the Spanish football giants announced on Wednesday.
The decision was reached during a board meeting on the day by interim president Vicente Boluda.
Boluda took over the presidency on a temporary basis in January from Ramon Calderon, who resigned in disgrace after media revelations that he had sneaked false delegates into the club's annual general assembly in January.
Madrid - Villarreal midfield anchorman Marcos Senna will be out of action for around three weeks with a thigh injury, the Spanish football club announced on Wednesday.
Senna, 32, tore a muscle in his left thigh in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at home to Malaga, a result which pulled Villarreal down to fifth in La Liga.
Senna will miss the next league matches as well as a Champions League quarter-final return leg at England's Arsenal which was scheduled for later Wednesday.
Madrid - Constant intermarriage between relatives was the main cause of the extinction of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, which it ruled from 1516 to 1700, press reports Wednesday quoted a new study as saying.
Described as the first to apply genetics to a Spanish royal dynasty, the study confirms earlier hypotheses by many historians.
Spain's last Habsburg king, Chlares II, was unable to have children.
Madrid - The tulip entered Europe through Moorish Spain five centuries earlier than previously thought, according to a Spanish study made public on Thursday.
Madrid - Spain's attorney-general said Thursday he would oppose a request by judge Baltasar Garzon to investigate six US officials over torture claims at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba.
Madrid - The presidential election at Real Madrid has been set for June 14, the Spanish football giants announced on Wednesday.
Madrid - Villarreal midfield anchorman Marcos Senna will be out of action for around three weeks with a thigh injury, the Spanish football club announced on Wednesday.
Madrid - Constant intermarriage between relatives was the main cause of the extinction of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, which it ruled from 1516 to 1700, press reports Wednesday quoted a new study as saying.
