Coach Orenga content with Spain's basketball World Cup performance
Madrid: Spanish basketball coach Juan Antonio Orenga said he was happy with his team's performance in the FIBA World Cup till date and was all praise for veteran Pau Gasol, who has been a star for the team so far. The former L.A. Lakers star, who is now ...
Parents of ill British boy held in Spain
LONDON — The parents of a child suffering from a severe brain tumor signaled yesterday that they would defy efforts to force them to return to Britain, days after their family fled to seek a novel radiation treatment for the 5-year-old boy. A Spanish ...
Spain jobless rate creeps back after summer boost
Madrid (AFP) - Spain's jobless queue lengthened slightly in August as the summer hiring boom tailed off but the indicator was stronger than a year ago, government figures showed Tuesday. The number of people in Spain registered as unemployed crept up by ...
Pau Gasol looks like old self, as Spain whips Brazil
Pau Gasol caused the Brazil’s interior defense also sorts of trouble and it proved costly for the South Americans who conceded an 82-63 defeat to Spain on Sept. 1. In his most impressive game of the tournament, Gasol had 26 points, 9 rebounds and three ...
Spain, Greece advance as Senegal stun Croatia
(Reuters) - Hosts Spain passed their first real test at the basketball World Cup with flying colours yesterday when they beat Brazil 82-63 to book a last 16 berth alongside a Greek team who brushed aside Puerto Rico 90-79. Both teams improved their records ...
Spain orders detention for parents of boy with brain tumor, Report
The parents of a British boy taken out of hospital in Britain without medical consent appeared before a Spanish judge on Monday for an extradition hearing. Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international manhunt after removing five-year-old Ashya, who has ...
Spain's Santander to issue up to 2.5 bln eur in "CoCo" bonds
MADRID, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Spain's biggest bank Santander said on Tuesday it would issue up to 2.5 billion euros (3.28 billion US dollar) in contingent convertible "CoCo" bonds, which can be converted into the bank's shares and are used to reinforce ...
