Jerez, Spain - Red Bull officially unveiled its car for the 2009 Formula One season Monday at the Spanish Jerez circuit.
The new RB5 car, which was presented by Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, is powered by a Renault engine designed by Adrian Newey and encompasses the far-reaching regulation changes that have been brought in to cut costs for the 2009 season.
"The team is well prepared to profit from the rule changes," said team principal Christian Horner, who is hoping Vettel can repeat his feat of last year at the Italian Grand Prix while still at Toro Rosso by securing Red Bull's maiden F1 win.
Madrid - Barcelona captain Carles Puyol will miss Wednesday's friendly between Spain and England after limping out of Barca's 3-1 home win against Sporting Gijon on Sunday, the Spanish football federation said Monday.
Puyol, 30, suffered a recurrence of the left thigh strain that he originally suffered in a cup match against Espanyol on January 29. He will be out of action for around one week.
Puyol only played against Gijon because both Gerard Pique and Rafa Marquez were suspended.
Madrid - Radical Basque separatists will not be able to field candidates in Basque regional elections for the first time, Spain's Supreme Court said in a ruling announced overnight.
The court barred the Askatasuna and D3M parties from of the March 1 poll on grounds of links with the militant Basque separatist group ETA, which has killed more than 800 people since 1968.
D3M and Askatasuna had emerged as successors to three other outlawed separatist parties.
Finally, LG confirmed the hearsays about its new high-end media phone media phone KM900 on the company's official UK blog.
The puzzle both confirms the device’s name through the file name, and that the touchscreen candybar phone use LG’s innovative and dynamic 3D User Interface.
LG also admitted that the phone (KM900) will have its formal debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that will take place this month.
With this, more info regarding the phone is coming out slowly for mobile buffs to feast on.
Madrid - Antonia Radas had always thought her mother abandoned her.
That was what she had been told by her adoptive family, one among the many Spanish families supportive of 1939-75 dictator Francisco Franco, which raised children taken away from the general's opponents.
Antonia only met her mother Carmen at age 54 thanks to a television programme helping people locate lost relatives.
"I recognized her immediately," the daily El Pais quoted Radas as saying. "She was like me, but 30 years older! I really liked my mother."