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...Civilisations as early as the Phoenicians and the Romans left an imprint on the Spanish diet. When Madrid was named capital by King Felipe II in the 16th century, it became a melting pot of cultures....
...Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellanby Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Bloomsbury £25/University of California Press $29.95 Felipe Fernández-Armesto is not just a pioneering scholar of the Spanish empire and...
...County Museum of Art (LACMA) to undertake a conservation of “Pietà” by the Bolivian artist Melchor Pérez Holguín, which included repair of minor paint losses and cleaning....
...This sweeping work by Stollberg-Rilinger, an expert on the Holy Roman Empire, will stand as the definitive study for many years to come....
...A human rights organisation pointed out that the ex-presidents were more likely to receive the justice of a Roman circus than the due process of a modern G20 nation....
...Additional reporting by Felipe Salvosa in Manila...
...The Roman government uncovered 574 city-owned flats that were being rented for below market rates – and some at ridiculously low rents. One near the Vatican was going for €10.29 per month....
...Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has been elected leader of Spain’s opposition Socialist party after threatening to reverse privileges granted to the Roman Catholic church....
...“Well, it is based on the Roman defensive formation.”...
...The loss is 59 per cent higher than the previous season, when it paid £12.6m compensation to former manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and his coaching staff....
...In spite of a very professional and effective campaign for the presidency, with the help of the same consulting firm that ran the campaigns of US senator John McCain and Mexican president Felipe Calderón...
...Seville – which has risen and fallen during its Roman, Muslim and Spanish Christian eras – has a big advantage in its struggle to rise again today: a cultural and commercial history that is rich in every...
...Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire, has wiped out £340m of debt of Chelsea Football Club, leaving the current English Premiership leaders largely debt-free....
...Mr Kenyon, who held the same post at Manchester United before being recruited by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, said that he would ponder his next move, adding “I am certain I have at least one major challenge...
...Mr Zapatero insists he is up to the task, and rejects the suggestion that he will be the leader who allows Spain to be relegated from the “premier league” of nations that it entered under Felipe González...
...The costs involved in dismissing Luiz Felipe Scolari will mean those targets will be missed, said Mr Kenyon. Yet there was some degree of comfort for Mr Ancelotti....
...The club, which sacked Luis Felipe Scolari as manager this week, said loans from its sole shareholder have now been reduced to £339.8m ($490m), and his equity has risen to £369.9m....
...Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, again showed his impatience with the shortcomings of his team by sacking coach Luis Felipe Scolari on Monday only seven months after the Brazilian had been...
...The Roman Catholic Church attacked him, promoting a boycott of Mr Polanco’s school textbooks on the grounds that the publishing group was subsidising an anti-clerical newspaper....
...Tuesday’s vote, which Roman Catholic conservatives fear could set a marker for the rest of Mexico and indeed Latin America, sparked rival protests as feelings ran high....
...Some 2,000 Roman Catholic faithful, many of them in holy orders, marched through central Mexico City at the weekend on a “Pilgrimage for Life”....
...Even the Roman Catholic Church, which has repented for its silence during the Jewish Holocaust, has never apologised for blessing Franco’s uprising as a “crusade’’ against communism....
...And if ever a landscape corresponded to that description, it is surely Chukotka, the Siberian province where local magnate Roman Abramovich made his fortune in oil....
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