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The spat between Tottenham and Real Madrid over Gareth Bale’s transfer to the Bernabeu continued on Thursday after the Spanish club’s vice-president accused Daniel Levy of holding up the deal.

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Chelsea today announced that Eddie Newton had been appointed to caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo’s backroom staff until the end of the season.

Chelsea were today branded a “serious embarrassment” and managing them described as “hell” as the fallout from Andre Villas-Boas’ sacking continued.

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David De Gea has denied reports he has agreed to join Manchester United and insists he will not consider his future until after this summer’s European Under-21 Championships.

A DOCTOR who certified dead a Mexican baby which later revived in its coffin has been charged with homicide.

Seve Ballesteros is reported to be in a stable condition in a Madrid hospital after fainting.

Spanish police have passed on to Interpol a photograph of a girl taken by two Spanish tourists recently in Morocco which the couple suspect could be of missing British girl Madeline McCann.

The Spanish prime minister is making an emergency visit to the Canary Islands today to assess raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of 14,000 people.

MORE than 11,000 people were forced to evacuate in the Canary Islands yesterday as firefighters struggled to extinguish fires on two of the archipelago’s popular tourist islands.

More than 11,000 people have been evacuated from homes and holiday resorts in the Canary Islands today.

A raging forest fire that has burnt thousands of acres of woodland on Spain’s Gran Canaria island forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 people today, including several dozen tourists, authorities said.

An Associated Press photographer was released late tonight after a harrowing day in the hands of Palestinian gunmen who abducted him at gunpoint in Gaza - the latest in a string of kidnappings of foreigners in the chaotic area.

Palestinian gunmen kidnapped an Associated Press photographer in the Gaza Strip today, grabbing him as he walked out of his apartment and whisking him away in their vehicle, a witness said.

An explosion in a building in Barcelona injured several people today, Spanish news reports said.

At least 30 people were reported to have been killed today when a subway train derailed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia.

Spanish rescue services today found the bodies of two of the four crew members of a French-flagged catamaran that sank overnight off Spain’s Costa Brava due to heavy winds.

A backpack bomb exploded today outside a factory in the Basque city of Bilbao after a warning call from the separatist group Eta, causing serious damage but no injuries, Spanish police said.

Spanish police today arrested at least seven people suspected of recruiting fighters for the Iraqi insurgency, Spanish news reports said.

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED residents of a small Catalan town won €300,000 each yesterday in a €515 million Christmas lottery bonanza for the local community.

Spanish police have arrested at least seven people suspected of financing Islamic terrorism, news reports said today.

Croatia’s top war crimes fugitive has been jailed in Madrid following his capture at a luxury resort on the Canary Islands after four years on the run, officials said.

A HIGH court judge ruled yesterday that Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina should be handed to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Spanish opposition leader Mariano Rajoy and other politicians today survived a helicopter crash outside Madrid.

A section of a highway bridge under construction in southern Spain collapsed on workers today, killing at least five, officials said.

A bus veered off a highway in the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife today and smashed into a petrol station.

A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest order for three US soldiers whose tank fired at a Baghdad hotel during the war in Iraq, killing a Spanish journalist, a court official said today.

A three-storey building collapsed in north-eastern Spain today, leaving four dead and four injured, news reports said.

Spanish sea rescue units today resumed the search for 14 immigrants missing and feared drowned after their boat sank three days ago.

A Belgrade judge has ordered a key suspect in the Madrid bombings to be detained pending his possible extradition to Spain.

A salmonella outbreak that has left nearly 600 people ill across Spain and killed one man is expected to recede after a batch of contaminated chicken was withdrawn from sale, the head of the country’s food safety agency said today.

Four bombs exploded today near a power plant in the Basque region after a warning call from the separatist group Eta.

Manuel Fraga, the last political survivor of General Francisco Franco’s regime, has lost power in Spain’s Galicia region after an election decided by overseas voters.

Two grenades exploded close to an airport in north-eastern Spain today following a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA.

Politicians investigating the Madrid train bombings were to meet today to discuss a final report on Spain’s worst terrorist attack.

A small bomb exploded early today in the town of Zarauz on Spain’s north-east coast, damaging a wall, but a second device was safely deactivated, police said. No one was injured.

Four small bombs exploded today at industrial sites in the Basque region, officials said. A news report said the separatist group ETA may have been behind the attacks.

A truck carrying steel girders ran over police manning a checkpoint outside Madrid today, killing five people and injuring two others, officials said.

A bomb exploded at a resort hotel in south-eastern Spain today, reports said. The building had been evacuated and no one was injured.

A cruise ship with 732 people on board sent out a distress signal today after its engines died during a storm in the Mediterranean.

Spanish police probing the armed Basque separatist group Eta arrested a 75-year-old Benedictine monk today.

Seventeen youths were found dead at a hostel in eastern Spain today, apparently from gas fumes while celebrating a birthday party, reports said.

A bomb exploded today in a hotel in the town of Denia in south-east Spain, news reports said.