Villarreal, Spain  - A handsome 3-0 defeat of Chile on Wednesday rounded off a wonderful 2008 for the Spanish national team.

Goals from David Villa, Fernando Torres and Santi Cazorla kept intact new manager Vicente del Bosque's 100 per cent record - and stretched Spain's unbeaten run to 28 games.

It is now exactly two years ago since "La Seleccion" suffered their last defeat, a run which lively but naive Chile never seemed capable of ending.

Dhabi, Nov. 19th, 2008 --UAE Foreign Trade Minister HE Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, met today with Spanish's Catalonia region Trade Minister Joseph Hogat, who is visiting the country accompanied by Spanish business persons, representing tourist, health, investment and financial sectors to explore cooperation between the UAE and Catalonia region.

Madrid - A Spanish discotheque Wednesday came under criticism for organizing a prize draw with a breast augmentation operation as the jackpot.

The draw was to be held between all the visitors who paid 20 euros (25 dollars) to enter the discotheque in the eastern city of Valencia.

Madrid - A plan to pay tribute to a Catholic saint in the Spanish parliament was cancelled Wednesday, while parliament president Jose Bono came under criticism for calling his Socialist party comrades "sons of a bitch" over the decision.

The parliamentary committee had earlier agreed to place a plaque in the parliament building in honour of Saint Maravillas de Jesus, a nun who was born in a building now belonging to the parliamentary complex in 1891.

Madrid - Controversy was raging in Spain on Wednesday over a prominent judge's decision to

Madrid- The global economic crisis could raise Spain's public sector deficit to about 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year, the governor of the Spanish central bank said Wednesday.

Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez called on the government to "maintain a margin of action" in case the economy suffered "situations of major deterioration."