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Spain
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Look At This Yank Get Drilled By A Bull In Spain
16 Feb 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Spain loves its bull festivals. This one, the Carnaval del Toro, got super exciting for one bull, but not so much for one American chap.
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They Reckon This 12-Year-Old Is The Next Lionel Messi [Video]
07 Jan 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It must be nice to be 12 years old and be compared to one of the greatest footballers on earth. Then again, when you got skills like this ‘laaitjie’, they might be on to something.
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The World’s Most Eccentric Aristocrat Has Died – Rest In Peace, María del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James-Stuart y de Silva
21 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This duck practically wrote the book How to Live Life to the Fullest. She did write her memoirs, so if you want to learn how to spend your millions properly, maybe try giving it a read.
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This Craft Beer Is Made With Seawater
16 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love salted caramel candy. It makes me happy inside. This is like the male equivalent: Salted beer. YUM!
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Woman Forced To Admit Hen Night Mistake, As Baby Is Born With Dwarfism
13 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Oops. This is one mistake that will really and truly change your life, because there is absolutely no way to white-lie yourself out of it…
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Radical Footage Shows Matadors Gored By Bulls As Spanish Festival Is Suspended [Video]
22 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
See what happens when a bull becomes so agitated – nay – so totally pissed off, that 3 Tereros feel the full brunt of this beast’s anger.
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They Reckon They’ve Found The Holy Grail
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Two historians claim they have found the Holy Grail, not sitting in a long forgotten tomb or cave filled with snakes, but in a museum. But maybe it’s too much bling for a carpenter to afford.
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Friday Morning Spice
26 Jul 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
North Korea shows off captured US ship. Train Driver in custody. Facebook nears milestone. Malema says Africa doesn’t need borders. China orders production cuts. SA woman (119) might be world’s oldest. SABC are fooling themselves (again).
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Radical CCTV Footage Shows Spain Train Crash As It Happened [Video]
25 Jul 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Incredible CCTV footage has surfaced showing the train crash in the northern Spanish region of Galicia as it happened.
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77 Dead And 131 Injured So Far In Spain’s Worst Train Disaster In 40 Years [VIDEO]
25 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The death toll is rising from a train crash in the northern Spanish region of Galicia. The crash occurred on Wednesday evening when the train jumped the tracks, derailing at least six carriages.
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Not An Ideal Weekend: Woman Gored In Thorax, 22 Others Injured In Bull Run Pile Up [GALLERY + VIDEO]
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In Pamplona Spain the final day of the San Fermin festival was a blood bath, with 23 people being injured on Saturday. Bull runners ran to the entrance to escape the bulls but instead blocked the path for the bulls leaving them with nowhere to go.
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It’s That Time Of Year Again: A Complete Gallery Of The Spanish Running Of The Bulls [GALLERY]
09 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Every year in Spain thousands of participants are chased down the streets by bulls. This is part of the annual Running of the Bulls festival. This is what has been happening at this year’s festival.
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The World’s Biggest Food Fight: Tomatina Fest 2012 [GALLERY]
30 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This year Spain is celebrating its 64th Tomatina Fest. The event brings together over 40 000 tomato enthusiasts – armed with 100 tons of the red fruit – for an epic battle taking place in the small village of Buñol.
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NBC Olympic Livestream Catches Nip-Slip In Women’s Waterpolo, Twitter Erupts [VIDEO]
03 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
US broadcast network NBC has received a lot of criticism for its broadcast of the Olympics so far. This has included its choice of camera work and editing, as well as delaying the coverage of events and only broadcasting them during primetime. Coverage of the women’s waterpolo between Spain and USA, which was streamed live on NBC’s website, provides a good argument for a delayed broadcast.
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Bull Gores Runners During 2012 Pamplona Festival [GALLERY]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A bull has gored two Britons and an American during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona over the weekend. The three were among several people caught and attacked by the animal after he had had broken free from the pack.
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Spanish Activists Looking To Sue Former Bank Manager For Financial Crisis
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Spanish activists are raising a large private fund to pay for a civil action suit against Rodrigo Rato – the former chairman of Bankia, one of the banks central to the Spanish financial crisis. The fundraiser is following the usual decentralized online-activist structure, with members organizing themselves under the #QuerellaPaRato (“Lawsuit for Rato”) hashtag.
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Spain’s King Juan Carlos Apologises For African Hunting Trip
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.
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Spanish Royal Shoots Himself
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Felipe Juan Froilan, the 13-year-old grandson of the king of Spain, has learnt at a young age what it feels like to shoot yourself in the foot. (A learning which, considering he’s fifth in line to the Spanish throne, may serve him well later in his life as a state figurehead.)
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Smurf Town In Spain Votes To Stay Blue
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A small city in southern Spain, Juzcar, was used as the film location for the The Smurfs film, and painted blue to fit the theme. Once shooting had wrapped up, Sony Pictures offered to repaint the place – except residents voted yesterday to keep the place Smurf-coloured.
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Spain’s New Presidency Poses Threat To Gay Marriage
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The landslide victory of the opposition conservative Popular Party in Spain is widely viewed as a threat to same-sex marriage in that country. But the gays won’t go down without a fight. Or without a make-out session, for that matter. Watch as a live Al Jazeera news report on the election gets photobombed by two guys furiously sucking face.
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Duchess Of Alba Topless Ibiza Beach Photo Surfaces On Eve Of Wedding
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may recall a previous article on the three-times widowed, fantastically wealthy Duchess of Alba’s proposed remarriage to Alfonso Diez, a man 24 years her junior. I’m pretty sure the last thing anyone (especially her) wanted popping up was a topless photo of that 85-year-old struck match, on the cover of a magazine. Lawsuit, here we come. [No pics. Naughty.]
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Catalonia’s Last Bullfight [PICS]
26 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Sunday, 20 000 bullfighting fans packed Barcelona’s La Monumental bullring to watch the last corrida that Catalonia will hold; the event was headlined by Spain’s premier matador, José Tomás. The regional ban on bullfighting, which was approved at the end of last year, goes into effect in January.
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About Those Guys Who Think They Found Atlantis
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of researchers led by professor Richard Freund of the University of Hartford claim to have found Atlantis in Doñana, north of Cadiz, Spain. What makes this hack discovery different is the multi-ringed layout of the site, which fits the account offered by Plato, apparently.
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Death By GPS
06 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Technology has claimed its second victim in as many weeks. Not long after the Segway Company owner plummeted to his not-so poetic death (he was attached to a Segway at the time), a Spanish man has perished after plunging his Peugeot into a reservoir, at the instruction of his GPS. Maybe he had the Yoda voice activated?
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