This week’s movie releases
Angelina Jolie turns nasty in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ remake ‘Maleficent’ Tom Cruise keeps springing back from the dead in Doug Liman’s sci-fi actioner ‘Edge of Tomorrow’
A responsible politician
Socialist leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has acknowledged his party’s European defeat and is making way for leadership changes
Socialist leader throws in the towel after poor showing at European elections
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba calls extraordinary party meeting in July to choose new leadership
A blow to the two-party system
The results of Sunday’s polls open the door to a broader political spectrum that could define the next general elections in Spain
Guaranteeing the future
Prince Felipe is showing poise and balance ahead of his future role as head of state
This week’s movie releases
Nicole Kidman is a princess in critical peril in the panned 'Grace of Monaco' And Jude Law fattens up to play the lead role in ‘Dom Hemingway’
Coca-Cola pulls ad featuring Basque actor “with ETA sympathies”
Decision comes after complaint sent to drinks manufacturer by a terrorist victims’ association
Russian mafioso linked to 33 murders arrested at Spanish-French border
Described as “extremely dangerous,” Dmitry Zavyalov had been spotted vacationing on Costa Brava
The law is sufficient
Excesses committed on social networking sites in the wake of the murder of politician Isabel Carrasco can be pursued without toughening the penal code
Drug trafficker arrested over body found with incision in stomach
A young lawyer, thought to be a drug mule, turned up dead in Málaga in 2010 The suspect is alleged to have let the man die before cutting out cocaine bags from his intestines
This week’s movie releases
Bringing an indie flavor to the Hollywood blockbuster, Gareth Edwards’ ‘Godzilla’ stomps into town
No time for speculation
A flurry of theories over the motives for the killing of a Popular Party politician is out of place
Bank monitoring
The government’s plans to create a new database holding the financial details of all Spaniards have raised a number of legal issues
Atlético Madrid and Barcelona get ready for unique Liga ‘final’ at Camp Nou
Title race to go down to wire after both contenders slip up on Sunday Real Madrid waves farewell to hopes after Celta defeat
Government to create database for monitoring all Spanish bank accounts
Measure aimed at combating money laundering and terrorism funding But experts fear new system could be used as a political weapon
Eight years on, judge targets rail chiefs in Valencia subway crash probe
Tragic accident in 2006 left 43 people dead and 47 others injured Until now, only the driver – who was killed in the incident – had been held accountable
This week’s movie releases
Set on a train circling an icy future Earth, ‘Snowpiercer’ is a sci-fi thriller to get excited about
“We will report on news that’s in the interest of readers, not of an ideology”
Antonio Caño, the new editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS, answers the public’s questions
Young reformers
Spain’s youngsters are highly critical of the establishment, but they want to see its institutions improved, rather than abolished altogether
Atleti and Real wins set stage for all-Madrid final
May 24 showdown will mark first time two teams from same city contest a Champions League final
This week’s movie releases
Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet star in dystopian sci-fi adaptation 'Divergent' Woody Allen talks John Turturro into going on the game in 'Fading Gigolo'
Just another “isolated” racist incident?
The throwing of a banana at Barça’s Alves highlights the reluctance to tackle racial abuse in sport
Government promises to create 600,000 jobs in two years
But Rajoy administration admits employment levels it inherited in 2011 will not return until 2018
Consumer prices up 0.5% from March
Flash estimate is best figure in months, yet well below the acceptable rate of 1%
Spanish economy grew 0.4% in first quarter of 2014
Flash estimate from National Statistics Institute coincides with Bank of Spain figures Prime minister sounds note of confidence, saying that “things are going well and will go better”
Judge rules against ex-PM in EL PAÍS defamation case over illegal payments
Ruling states that PP, in breach of law, paid Aznar on at least three occasions while in office
Spanish labor market continued to shed jobs in first quarter of 2014
The jobless rate in March reached 25.93%, 0.2% higher than at the end of 2013 Households where all members are out of a job rose by 53,100 in the first three months of the year
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