Spain women’s football team gets first female coach after World Cup kissing fuss
MADRID: The Spanish football federation (RFEF) on Tuesday said it has dismissed the coach of its national women’s team, Jorge Vilda, just weeks after the team won its first World Cup, reported German news agency (dpa). The RFEF did not specify why the contract, which would have seen Vilda leading the national team until August […]
Spain’s Carmona learns of father’s death after scoring World Cup-winning goal
LONDON: The father of Spain’s World Cup final match-winner Olga Carmona has died, the defender’s club Real Madrid have announced. The news comes just hours after Carmona scored the only goal of Sunday’s showpiece match against England in Sydney. Carmona, who was captain for the tournament, struck in the 29th minute as Spain beat the […]
Spain storm to historic women’s World Cup win
SYDNEY: A new name has been etched onto the FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy as Spain became the fifth team to win the title after beating England 1-0 here on Sunday, reported Xinhua. Olga Carmona took centre stage as her 29th-minute strike ensured that Spain become the second country after Germany to have won both […]
Spain deploys drones to protect beaches from climate change
BARCELONA (Spain): Drones are being deployed in parts of Spain to protect the country’s beaches from the impact of climate change. As a major global tourist destination, Spain’s beaches represent some of its most important assets. To help preserve them, drones equipped with high-resolution cameras and multispectral sensors are now being used to monitor sand […]
Wildfire in Spain’s La Palma Island forces thousands of people to evacuate
MADRID: A wildfire on the Spanish island of La Palma has blazed around 4,500 hectares of land, causing thousands of people to evacuate, local emergency services said on Saturday. The fire, which broke out early morning on Saturday, has burnt the area close to the municipality of Puntagorda on the north-west region of the Canary […]
S’wak delegates visit international tourism agency in Spain
KUCHING: Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah recently led 15 delegates to the United Nations of World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) headquarters in Madrid, Spain to expand Sarawak’s tourism nature. The Minister of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts said the purpose of the visit was to explore opportunities to collaborate with UNWTO ,mainly on responsible […]
Spain grapples with water shortages as heat, drought continue
MADRID: One of the hottest summers on record in Spain, coupled with the lowest rainfall since records began, has left the country facing a water supply crisis. The data published on Wednesday by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge show that the average water level in nationwide reservoirs has fallen to just 37.9 […]
Wildfires stretching across Spain as heatwave continues
MADRID: Wildfires have so far burnt more than 22,000 hectares of woodland and scrub in Spain since the start of the heatwave over a week ago, emergency services calculated. Temperatures above 44°C in southern and southwestern Spain and around 40°C for the rest of the country, coming on the back of exceptionally hot and dry […]
Benfica announce agreement to transfer Nunez to Liverpool
LONDON: Portuguese club Benfica have issued a statement confirming they have reached agreement with Liverpool for the transfer of forward Darwin Nunez in a deal that could be worth up to €100 million. Benfica issued a statement in the early hours of Monday morning, explaining that Liverpool will pay an initial €75 million, with possible […]
Spain to send ‘military hardware’ to Ukraine
MADRID: Spain will supply weapons directly to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday, two days after declaring Madrid would only contribute via an EU funding mechanism. The move came after pressure on Sanchez’s left-wing coalition government to take a more proactive approach to the war raging on Europe’s eastern flank. “Spain […]
