Bunol: This Spanish town launched its internationally famous tomato food fight, the "Tomatina", with the participation of about 45,000 young people from all over the world who faced off against everyone else in the narrow streets with 120 tonnes of the ripe red vegetables for ammunition. The run-up to the peaceful battle, held each year since 1945 on the last Wednesday of August, began on Tuesday afternoon with a continuous...
09:55 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama called up leaders of Spain and Italy over the euro zone debt crisis and the situation in Syria, the White House stated. In his separate phone calls to Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Obama talked about the latest developments in the euro zone crisis, Xinhua reported on Tuesday. "The president welcomed the measures pursued by Spain and Italy...
08:18 AM, Aug 09, 2011
After the popular song from bollywood flick 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara', the la tomatina festival is happening in the capital on Saturday. ...
07:58 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Madrid: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced an early general election in November, four months earlier than scheduled, looking to capitalise on a slight upturn in opinion poll ratings. "I believe the moment has arrived to announce a general election ... which will be held on November 20," Zapatero told a news conference on Friday. Political commentators had widely speculated that the Socialists could take advantage of improved...
05:58 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Mumbai: Spain's Tomatina festival has been re-created on celluloid for the Bollywood film 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara', with filmmakers importing several tonnes of tomatoes to shoot a five-day song sequence. The annual Tomatina festival is held in Bunol on the last Wednesday in August, and involves the town's population pelting ripe tomatoes at each other. Re-creating the scenes was no easy task for the crew of the Bollywood film. "We...
10:55 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Madrid: Tiny Spanish firm 24symbols has launched a digital book reading and sharing site modelled on European digital music service Spotify, aiming to generate income from publicity and subscriptions. Users can read books for free if they accept viewing display ads in the margins, or pay a monthly fee to read without commercial publicity. The service was launched on Thursday and is currently available on computers and telephones. "The advantage...
07:44 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Madrid: Access to the website of Spain's national police force was blocked for over an hour late on Saturday in a reprisal attack by the hackers' group Anonymous, the newspaper El Mundo said on its website Sunday. El Mundo said the group had warned police in a statement that it planned to disable the website at some time Saturday. The website was down for at least an hour from 2130...
07:47 AM, Jun 13, 2011
Oslo: Norway will scale down its fighter jet contribution in Libya from six to four planes and withdraw completely from the NATO-led operation by August 1, the government said on Friday. Defence Minister Grete Faremo said she expects understanding from NATO allies because Norway has a small air force and cannot "maintain a large fighter jet contribution during a long time." The announcement comes as the Obama administration puts pressure...
09:22 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with renewed shelling of the western city of Misrata on Wednesday, killing 10 rebel fighters. The international alliance said it remained determined to keep pounding Gadhafi forces from the air, but would play no military role in the transition to democratic rule in oil-rich North African country once the erratic leader's 42-year rule...
03:38 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Berlin: Germany on Wednesday said the deadly E coli outbreak appeared to be waning as the government convened an emergency meeting of federal and state health ministers for the first time since the outbreak of the deadly infection over a month ago. Germany's new health minister Daniel Bahr admitted failures by the authorities and said there have been "too many speculations" which caused confusion among the public. The government has...
02:18 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Brussels: US officials say Defence Secretary Robert Gates pointedly prodded five allied nations on Wednesday to share more of the burden of the NATO-led air campaign against Libya. They say none committed to do more. Officials say Gates used his final NATO meeting before retirement to press Germany and Poland to join the military intervention, and Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands to contribute to strike missions against ground targets. The...
01:15 AM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhannot and VK Verma, all accused of pushing for a private firm Swiss Timing for supplying Timing Scoring and Results system for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), are now behind the bars. They stand accused ignoring the bid claims of this contract to MSL SPAIN, a Spanish firm, at much lower prices. But now, CNN-IBN has accessed a confidential email, written by Chairman of Technical Committee,...
09:42 PM, May 19, 2011
Madrid: Two earthquakes struck southeast Spain in quick succession on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and causing major damage to buildings, officials said. It was the highest quake-related death toll in Spain in more than 50 years. The epicenter of the quakes - with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 - was close to the town of Lorca, and the second came about two hours after the first,...
07:29 AM, May 12, 2011
Danish restaurant Noma in Copenhagen was crowned the world's best restaurant for the second year in a row in an annual list, beating out top eateries in Spain, Italy, Britain, the United States and elsewhere. Following is a full list of the top 50, as chosen at the S Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants awards, produced by Britain's Restaurant Magazine. 1. Noma, Denmark (www.noma.dk) 2. El Celler de Can Roca,...
01:04 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Zindagi Na Milege Dobara starring Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Katrina Kaif will the theatres on June 24. It is a film about three friends taking off on a fun filled road trip. The movie has an elaborate scene with the four stars, Hrithik, Katrina, Farhan and Abhay taking part in the Tomatina festival of Spain where people throw tomatoes at each other. The Tomatina that takes place...
01:40 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Paris/London: The leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Spain and Italy on Thursday jointly expressed their "utmost concern" at the worsening situation in Egypt and demanded the process of transition from the rule of President Hosni Mubarak "start now." German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a joint statement: "We are...
04:12 PM, Feb 03, 2011
