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  • Appointment of members of the Spanish Council of Science Policy, Technology and Innovation

    The Spanish Council of Ministers approved today an agreement to designate the Members of the Council for Science Policy, Technology and Innovation that represent the Central Government.
    This Council is composed of the heads of the ministerial departments designated by the Government and of the representatives of the Autonomous Communities to be elected by the relevant bodies in each community.

  • Box office records for El Alma de la Roja, a documentary about the Spanish National Football Team

    The documentary about the Spanish National Football Team El Alma de la Roja by Santiago Zannou achieved a great success of public attendance when screened as part of the documentary film festival Ready Steady Doc, in London last February 17th.
    The event was an exceptional occasion to see a very special guest, the coach to the World-Cup winning Spanish National Football Team, Vicente del Bosque.

  • Spanish Scientists discover world's deepest land animals

    In the dark abyss of the world's deepest known cave lurks a newfound species of primitive eyeless insect, one that researchers are calling the deepest land animal ever found. The insects were collected during the Ibero-Russian CaveX team expedition to the world's deepest known cave.

  • Two languages and a global destiny

    The British Council and the Instituto Cervantes united to battle common challenges with a book and plans for cooperation.

  • Blecua, the new Director of the Royal Spanish Academy: America is the future of the Spanish language

    The philologist José Manuel Blecua, elected today as the director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) with a majority vote, has faith in sharing his new responsibility with the American Academies of the Spanish Language, to strengthen unity and develop all ongoing projects.

    "America is the future of the Spanish language, the present and the past", Blecua told the media, minutes after having been elected as successor to Víctor García de la Concha, who will officially leave his role as the director of the RAE on 13th January 2011.

  • Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Britain pays belated homage to Spanish genius

    For generations of British artists and art lovers, Pablo Picasso has been the single most important artistic influence, but there has never been a major exhibition examining that influence.

    Tate Britain said on Thursday it would fill the gap, announcing a show next spring which will explore in detail how Picasso helped to shape the artists that followed.

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