Caminito del Rey, Spain: the world’s scariest hike to reopen
The Caminito del Rey, one of the world scariest hikes, is reopening to the public early next year. It is currently illegal to walk along the dangerously dilapidated path, which skirts the Guadalhorce river gorge near El Chorro in southern Spain ...
Orange strikes €3.4 billion deal to buy Spain’s Jazztel
France’s Orange has reached a deal to buy Spanish fixed line telecoms operator Jazztel in an effort to bolster its mobile operation in the country and better compete with rivals Telefonica and Vodafone. The French group made an offer for 100 per cent of ...
Orange strikes 3.4 billion euros deal to buy Spain's Jazztel
PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) - France's Orange has reached a deal to buy Spanish fixed line telecoms operator Jazztel in an effort to bolster its mobile operation in the country and better compete with rivals Telefonica and Vodafone. The French group made an ...
Alex Salmond's EU Plan For Independent Scotland Decisively Undermined By Spain
Alex Salmond's vision for Scotland to rejoin the European Union within two years of gaining independence while keeping the pound has been awkwardly undermined by Spain. Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Spain's Europe minister, said that the Scottish first minister ...
Spain sells 5bn euros of short-term debt, yields rise
MADRID: Spain sold 5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) of short term debt on Tuesday at higher yields than a month ago, days ahead of a vote on Scottish independence that has unsettled some buyers of debt from countries with separatist movements. Spain's ...
US basketball reigns in Spain and awaits Rio Olympics
MADRID — It feels like so long ago, though it’s been only a decade. The U.S. was the three-time defending Olympic champion, but had become a mess of a basketball program. The Americans had embarrassed themselves at home in the 2002 world championship ...
Devising and Physical Theatre
Episode 110: Devising and Physical Theatre Pilar Orti talks about how you can devise (create theatre from an idea) using physical theatre. How do you find stimulus for a piece, explore that stimulus physically, and (most importantly) how to fail when you create. “If you don’t fail you don’t discover ...
Vintage Fashion Photography by Paolo Roversi
Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black ...
Viewing Picks for September 16, 2014
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football 2014 Australian Rules Football League All Australian Awards — Fox Soccer Plus, 6:30 a.m. College Football BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon CFB Daily: The Experts — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. College Football Fea ...
Europe’s Deadly Borders: An Inside Look at EU’s Shameful Immigration Policy
Originally posted on New Scholars Network: Der Spiegel Along the frontiers between Spain and Morocco, Greece and Turkey and Hungary and Serbia, the EU is deploying brutal methods to keep out undesired refugees. Many risk everything for a future in Europe and their odysseys too often end in death. ht ...
"The European School-to-work Transition And The Crisis" by Luca Giuliani and Francesco Pastore
Luca Giuliani The school-to-work transition is a long, dark tunnel for many young people around the world. However, the problem is not the same everywhere; in Germany, for example, young people have almost the same probability of working as adults, while in the Eastern and Mediterranean EU countries ...
