Madrid - Spanish former golfer Severiano Ballesteros will have fully recovered from recent health problems within six months, his brother Baldomero was quoted as saying in Spanish media reports from Monday.
Ballesteros, 51, has been fighting a brain tumour for four months and has already undergone several instances of surgery and chemotherapy in that effort. However, his condition has improved considerably.
Madrid - Spain is backtracking on plans to nationalize tens of thousands of seaside residences in an attempt to protect the coastline from pollution, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
The Environment Ministry had intended to step up the application of a 1988 law prohibiting the construction of housing near the water line.
The owners of such houses, many of whom are British and German nationals, would have been granted the right to use them for up to 60 years without being allowed to sell them.
Malaga, Spain - A storm with winds blowing at up to 180 kilometres an hour injured 25 people overnight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) said Monday.
The storm, which was accompanied by rain and which Aemet described as a tornado, uprooted trees, knocked over advertising billboards, tore off the roofs of a bus station and of a parking lot, and caused widespread damage to vehicles and urban property.
Madrid - The Spanish Cinema Academy was Monday seen as having made a bold choice in granting six Goya Awards to Javier Fesser's film Camino (The Road), which depicts the influential conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei in a critical light.
Spain's top movie awards, which were granted for the 23th time, were announced at a Madrid gala overnight.
Camino was "the riskiest and politically most uncomfortable" candidate, the daily El Mundo said, while El Pais described the movie as a "different" film on "spirituality, (and) on how Opus Dei manipulates the illness of a child."
Madrid - Malaga stay in seventh place in the Spanish Liga as a result of Saturday's pulsating late 3-2 defeat away to in-form Athletic Bilbao.
Victory in San Mames would have taken Malaga up to fourth and they were twice in the lead, only to collapse in the final minutes.
Bilbao were given a rowdy reception in San Mames because of Wednesday's cup win away to Sporting Gijon. They face Sevilla in the quarter-finals next week.
Madrid - Spanish former golfer Severiano Ballesteros will have fully recovered from recent health problems within six months, his brother Baldomero was quoted as saying in Spanish media reports from Monday.
Madrid - Spain is backtracking on plans to nationalize tens of thousands of seaside residences in an attempt to protect the coastline from pollution, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
Malaga, Spain - A storm with winds blowing at up to 180 kilometres an hour injured 25 people overnight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) said Monday.
Madrid - The Spanish Cinema Academy was Monday seen as having made a bold choice in granting six Goya Awards to Javier Fesser's film Camino (The Road), which depicts the influential conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei in a critical light.
Madrid - Spanish Liga club Betis announced late on Saturday night the signing of Ricardo Oliveira from second division Zaragoza.
Madrid - Malaga stay in seventh place in the Spanish Liga as a result of Saturday's pulsating late 3-2 defeat away to in-form Athletic Bilbao.
