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July 26th, 2010
A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras today for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor. Identified only as Oscar, the 31-year-old spoke with considerable difficulty at a news conference at
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July 6th, 2010
According to the Bank of Spain, the total amount of money loaned through mortgages as of May amounted to 680,690 million euros, representing an annual increase of 0.9% over the same month in 2009, the highest growth in nearly a year. Although mortgage debt
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June 22nd, 2010
According to data from a Natural Population Movement survey, released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the number of births in Spain fell by five percent in 2009, the first decline in 10 years, after a decade of steady increases in the Spanish birth rate. This decrease is believed to ...
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May 11th, 2010
According to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT), active broadband connections in March exceeded the threshold of 10 million in Spain for the first time ever, representing a ratio of 21.5 lines per 100 inhabitants. With the addition of nearly 90,000 new subscribers in the month of March,
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May 10th, 2010
37,561 homes were sold during March 2010, representing an increase of 9% over the same month in 2009 and consolidating the rebound experienced since the beginning of the year. However, the March increase was more moderate than in February, when sales rose by 18.7%, the biggest gain in the last ...
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May 7th, 2010
According to estimates by the Bank of Spain, in its economic bulletin published today, the Spanish economy has technically come out of recession in the first quarter of 2010, after growing by 0.1% over the previous quarter, although GDP continues to fall on-year by 1.3%. With this slight growth, the Spanish ...
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May 5th, 2010
The permanent President of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, said today that the economic situation in Spain is "objectively nothing to do" with that of Greece. In an appearance in Brussels, Van Rompuy said he wanted to curb the "totally irrational movements" of European financial markets and made special reference ...
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April 30th, 2010
According to the latest municipal census, released today by the Spanish Institute of Statistics (INE), the total population registered in Spain, as of January 1st 2010, increased 0.4 percent over 2009 to reach more than 46.9 million people, of which 5.7 million are of foreign origin. The exact total resident population ...
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April 19th, 2010
According to new data published in a European study, nearly half of all people in Spain (47%) have said that they cannot live without the Internet any more, a percentage that has increased by 13% compared to 2008 data. The report, prepared by the European Interactive Advertising Association (IALS), previously ...
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April 15th, 2010
The president of the Association of Spanish Promoters and Constructors (APCE), José Manuel Galindo, said today that the property sector is beginning to "see the light at the end of the tunnel", now that the recovery of new home sales seems to be consolidating. Galindo, who was
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