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Now, application to measure visual intelligence of Facebook users
Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a web application to test the visual intelligence of Internet users through Facebook.

The new platform will enable...


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Barca beat Valencia to enter Copa del Rey final
FC Barcelona booked their third Copa del Rey football final appearance in four years with a 2-0 win at home to Valencia Wednesday night.

The win gives Barca a 3-1 aggregate win and they will face...
Barcelona not looking to sign Persie for now
Spanish giants Barcelona has ruled out a move for the in-form Arsenal captain Robin Van Persie, but has refused to rule out a move for him at a later date.

Barcelona chief Josep Maria Bartomeu said...
Real Madrid tops football rich list for seventh straight year
Real Madrid and Barcelona are football's biggest moneymakers for the third straight year and look set to top their rivals for the foreseeable future.

Real Madrid's revenues of 480 million euros...
Argentine oil firm made $3 bn investments in 2011
Argentine oil company YPF, a unit of Spain's Repsol-YPF, announced Wednesday that its investments in the South American country rose last year by 50 percent to a record 13.3 billion pesos ($3.06...
Barca through to Copa del Rey final
Barcelona sealed their passage through to the final of the Copa del Rey this evening with a 2-0 victory over Valencia at Camp Nou. Goals from Cesc...
127 more Iberia flights to be cancelled
Iberia will be cancelling 127 flights between February 12th and 14th to coincide with the strike planned by pilots, cabin crew and ground staff for Monday 13th in protest over the creation of the new...
Barcelona and Juventus seal cup final spots
FC Barcelona will play Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey final after squeezing past Valencia CF while Juventus overcame AC Milan at San Siro to seal their place in the Coppa Italia...
Spanish to sue French TV over Nadal skit
Another 6000 people in northern NSW are expected to become isolated over the next few days as floodwaters continue to flow downstream, with farmers facing losses of at least $750million as a result...
Spain defended after Contador cycling ban
The head of Spain's Olympic committee stepped up to defend Spanish sport on Wednesday in the wake of two-time Tour de France champion cyclist Alberto Contador's two-year ban for...
Gescrap Bizkaia 93-69 Real Madrid
Gescrap Bizkaia had to win tonight to stay alive in the Euroleague and snatched a victory from Real Madrid in Bilbao, forcing them to stake their pass to the quarterfinals in the two remaining games...
Real Madrid generates more revenue than any other club in the world
Deloitte's financial report for the 2010/11 season places Real Madrid as the sports entity that generates the largest revenue in the world a seventh year running with 479.5 million euros, close...
UK court orders extradition of ETA suspect to Spain
A British judge on Monday approved the extradition of an alleged member of Basque separatist group ETA to Spain where he is wanted over a string of terrorist...
Barcelona beats Valencia to advance to Copa final
BARCELONA, Spain - Cesc Fabregas scored one goal and set up another as Barcelona beat Valencia 2-0 on Wednesday night to win on 3-1 aggregate and advance to the Copa del Rey final against Athletic...
Top three banks in Spain pool 6.1 billion euros to cover bad loans
MADRID -- Spain's top three banks announced Tuesday they are putting aside 6.1 billion euros (US$8 billion) to cover for doubtful property loans in 2012 as part of a banking sector...
Spanish judge's trial over wartime probe ends
The Spanish judge famous for pursuing human rights crimes across borders said his conscience is clear as his trial for probing right-wing atrocities during his own country's civil war came to a...
Spain pain: ‘Iran oil embargo to backfire on Madrid’
Any economic losses from the EU's oil embargo on Iran are outweighed by the benefits of the new sense of European unity ushered in by the sanctions. That's the view of MEP Martin Callanan...
Smugglers Prosper in Spain’s ‘Perfect Storm’
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish smokers, squeezed by higher taxes and a deepening recession, are increasingly relying on smugglers to feed their...
Olympic official defends Spain after Contador ban
Spain 's sporting heros in a sketch about doping. "The successes of Spanish sport are solely due to hard work, dedication and planning," Blanco told a news conference. "We are...
Spanish princess 'worried' about duke's corruption hearing
Enlarge Photo Princess Cristina of Spain and Inaki Urdangarin (L) attend an event at in Washington DC in 2010. Cristina is worried about her husband the Duke of Palma's upcoming corruption...
Spain raises 4bn euros in surprise bond sale
bonds on Wednesday, more than the two to three billion it had originally intended, the treasury said. The syndicated bond issue received strong demand of more than 7.8 billion euros with the bonds...
Spanish bond yields rise as bunds decline
Spanish bonds fell, pushing the five- year note yield up the most in almost five weeks, as the country was said to hire banks for a debt sale taking place today. German bond yields touched a...
Judge agrees not to videotape the Duke of Palma in court
It has been decided by the judge hearing the Palma Arena case that the Duke of Palma, Iaki Urdangarn, will not have appearance in Palma Instruction Court Three on February 25...
13 called to the National Court following alleged irregularities in the Pope's visit to Valencia in 2006
Thirteen people have been indicted by the National Court Judge, Pablo Ruz, for their alleged links in the Grtel corruption, regarding the visit of the Pope to Valencia and in the contracts issued by...
Justice Minister says he cannot withdraw gay marriage appeal from the Constitutional Court
The debate on the future of the Gay Marriage legislation in Spain continues to make the news, following the comments from the Minister for Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardn, that he did not consider the...
New Spanish justice minister sees no constitutional case against same-sex marriage
Spain's justice minister has said that he sees no constitutional problem with the 2005 law that allowed same-sex marriage, but emphasized that the government will accept the ruling of the...
Herrera declares Madrid wish
Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera said he wants the Copa del Rey final to be held in Madrid. Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera said he wants the Copa del Rey final to be held in...
Ryanair boss needs police escort after clashing with Spanair workers
Spanair workers at Loiu airport in Bilbao, who have been staging a lock-in for the past nine days as a protest over the closure of the airline, disrupted Michael O'Leary's presentation of...
Calpe Legionnaires' deaths could have been avoided
The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that killed three British pensioners at a hotel in Calpe last week was actually detected a full month before the local health authorities took any action,...
Spain's Torras takes Golden Boot lead
Torras is the five-goal leader of the race for the adidas Golden Boot after his hat-trick in Spain's 8-3 quarter-final defeat of Romania, overtaking Vidan Bojovic of eliminated...
Spain issues surprise 10-year bond
The Spanish treasury launched a surprise issue of 10-year bonds today, a banking source said, with the government reportedly hoping to raise between €2 and €3 billion. The syndicated bond...
Real Madrid players receive Sanitas cards
Sanitas CEO Iñaki Ereño presented Real Madrid players with their new health cards at Valdebebas. Thanks to the partnership with the health insurance company, the Sanitas-Real Madrid...
Labor Law Change May Offer Relief For Spain's Youth
Spaniards march through the streets of Madrid, Nov. 27, 2011, to protest spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption. The government is proposing an overhaul of the country's...
Spain to revamp labour laws
Spain's government will unveil reforms to rigid labour laws on Friday that it hopes will be radical enough to get to grips with sky-high unemployment while not severing links altogether with...
Spanish writedown costs Scandinavia's SAS dear
The Scandinavian airline group SAS recorded a loss of 1.7 billion kronor ($250 million) in 2011 after taking a big writedown following the bankruptcy of Spanish budget carrier...
Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies dead at 88
Antoni Tapies' works were sprawling, abstract oeuvres that sometimes featured discarded everyday materials and graffiti-like scrawls. He liked the letter X to be in them, and the number 4, for...
Pontiflex Announces Spanish Language Capabilities for Mobile Signup Ads
Spanish language signup ads on iPhone, iPad and Android devices to connect with Hispanics in the US and around the world. With today's announcement, advertisers will be able to create ads in...
Spanish tennis federation to sue French TV for using logo in Nadal doping skit
MADRID - The Spanish tennis federation says it plans to sue Canal Plus France for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal and other Spaniards' alleged ties to doping.In the...
Labor Law Changes May Offer Relief For Spain's Youth
Spaniards march through the streets of Madrid, Nov. 27, 2011, to protest spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption. The government is proposing an overhaul of the country's...
Four deaths in four days in Marbella and Estepona
Four bodies have been found in Marbella and Estepona. Police are investigating the deaths of a youth, a man who had been burned, a third found in an abandoned building, and a fourth who died from a...
Mariano Rajoy warns Congress that unemployment is to get worse
Speaking in the control session in parliament on Wednesday, the Spanish equivalent of Prime Minister's Questions, Mariano Rajoy warned that unemployment is set to get worse in 2012. He confirmed...