ARGENTINIAN football legend Lionel Messi broke down in tears as he said goodbye to the club which has been his home for his entire career. He was speaking at a press conference to confirm his departure, and was reduced to tears when members of the press gave him a standing ovation. The 34-year-old has been […]
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ONE of Italy’s most wanted female fugitives was arrested attempting to leave Rome’s Ciampino airport on a flight to visit family in Spain. Maria Licciardi, 70, was detained as she checked in her bags early Saturday morning ahead of her flight to Malaga where her daughter lives. “She didn’t bat an eyelash when the officers
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TOURISTS picking up hire cars at Alicante-Elche airport were robbed by three men in a series of distraction thefts. The crooks travelled around Spain committing similar robberies. The Policia Nacional said that potential victims were chosen when they walked out of the terminal building. They were followed to car parks where their rental vehicles were
THE first major forest fire in the Valencia region this summer forced the evacuation of 160 residents in La Safor (Valencia Province) over the weekend. Aided by high temperatures and strong westerly winds, the flames devoured 180 hectares of forest land between the towns of Rafelguaraf and Barxeta on Saturday evening (August 7). Two urbanisations
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A BRITISH teenager is facing the amputation of at least two of his fingers from right hand after being bitten by a spider while on holiday in Ibiza. The unnamed 19-year-old has been told by doctors on his return home that they will likely have to remove two of his fingers as a result of
A noisy Torrevieja burglar woke up a woman in her bedroom and gave her a smile before running away. A 20-year-man has been arrested by the Guardia Civil over five overnight break-ins in the city since late July. The Ukrainian national committed similar robberies in Alicante and was jailed after his latest court appearance. His
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The British rapper Sneakbo was forced to flee to safety after being attacked by thugs on a night out in brash resort Puerto Banus on Spain’s Costa del Sol. The 29-year-old musician from south London, whose real name is Agassi Babatunde Odusina, shared the incident on social media claiming he was ‘laughing’ about it. But
The infamously eccentric Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage né Schreibvogel, better known as Joe Exotic, is currently in a prison cell, but continues to surprise people time and time again. Whether it is trying to get a pardon from the former President of The United States, Donald J. Trump, or breaking up with a lover, Joe never
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DAY trippers have added to the regular summer holiday traffic on the Costa del Sol this weekend—leading to tailbacks tallying some 21 kilometres with painfully slow-moving traffic on Sunday. The main congestion was on the toll-free motorway A-7, between 7:45pm and 8:15pm, which became completely saturated by a huge number of vehicles at three different
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FIGURES reveal that 101 municipalities in Andalucia have no new COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks—13 weeks after the end of the national state of alarm. According to data from the Andalucian Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA), the cumulative incidence rate for COVID-19 in Andalucia continues to climb with only 101 localities out
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