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Laporta claims Cesc wants back to Barca

Barcelona president Joan Laporta claims Cesc Fabregas wants to re-join his former club from Arsenal and has described the midfielder as his top target. The European champions have held a long-standing interest in the 22-year-old Spain international, who left Camp Nou for London six years ago.

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U2 world tour opener gets mixed reviews in Spain

Barcelona - Irish supergroup U2 kicked off their world tour in Barcelona with a huge stage show that won gasps of admiration from fans but failed to win over critics, Spanish newspapers reported Wednesday. 90,000 people flocked to Barcelona's Camp No...

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Working Session on Open Social Learning (III). Dolors Reig: Open Social Learning in Spain. Clarifying Concepts

Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning in Spain. Clarifying ConceptsDolors Reig Dolors Reig. Photo by Carlos Albaladejo Traditional e-Learning: everything preset, all paths settled. The evolution has then been, [...]

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Working Session on Open Social Learning (II): Rubén Díaz

Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning en España: diagnóstico y perspectivaRubén Díaz Rubén Díaz. Photo by Carlos Albaladejo Expanded education: Search for new ways of education that...

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Working Session on Open Social Learning (I). Marc Alier: Open Social Learning?

Notes from the the Working Session on Open Social Learning, organized by UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning and held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 30th, 2009. More notes on this event: uocunescoosl. Open Social Learning?Marc Alier Open Learning: We use to define problems so that some structured learning outcomes happen, but problems do not usually have unique [...]

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UNESCO World Heritage Committee says Sagrada Familia not "in danger"

The 33rd meeting of the World Heritage Committee, which is currently meeting in Seville, Spain, decided not to place the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona on its Endangered list. There had been speculation that the building, which was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi in the 19th century, was in danger of suffering damage as a result of the building of tunnels for the high-speed rail link between...

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Back from Barcelona: New Library Titles from Supreme Court of Canada Library

Mr. and Mrs. Library Boy got back yesterday from our 3 week vacation to Catalonia in Northeastern Spain (with a side trip to the neighbouring province of Aragon for hikes in the Monte Perdido region of the Pyrénées and a visit to the Somontano wine producing area, which also hosts caves with fascinating paleolithic and neolithic paintings). It all felt oddly familiar: Catalonia, within...

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A Three Hour Tour (Part 1)

Warning: The following post is full of pictures and has nothing to do with St. Maarten. We were supposed to be in Barcelona, Spain, but instead we had been bumped from our flight and had spent the night in New York. Jamaica, New York, to be precise. Our flight the next day to Barcelona was at 6:45PM. We were not sure what to do before the flight, since getting into the city in the short time we had...

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Spain mourns Vicente Ferrer, who helped millions of poor in India

Barcelona - Spanish politicians and other personalities on Friday paid tribute to Vicente Ferrer, a former Jesuit who died in India after dedicating his life to helping more than 2 million poor people there. Ferrer passed away Friday at age 89 in Ana...

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Gabon: Bongo - End of a Sit-Tight Leader

Omar Bongo Ondimba, former President of Gabon who died in Barcelona, Spain last week, is a metaphor for the African condition. After ruling one of the continent's most endowed nations for over four decades, the erstwhile "Big Man" died in a foreign land in search of solution to even his own medical problem.

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Architect of 'Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias' will design USF Polytechnic Building

Architect Santiago Calatrava displays his current model for a transportation hub at ground zero in downtown Manhattan in New York in May. Photo: OZIER MUHAMMAD | THE NEW YORK TIMES Santiago Calatrava , the world renowned Valencia architect who designed the extraordinarily beautiful Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias , will design the first building of the University of South Florida Polytechnic at...

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Banking Problems In Southern Europe Send The Whole World Running For Cover

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Well that so called investor "risk appetite" took a surprise hit yesterday (and from an unexpected quarter). It wasn't the worries about US fiscal deficits that caused the panic, but problems in the European banking system. Gwen Robinson reports : Risk appetite suffered a sharp deterioration on Monday as fresh uncertainty about the global economy prompted investors...

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The Last Tribute

The death of veteran Gabonese leader, Omar Bongo Ondimba aged 73, in a private clinic in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday June 8 sent shock waves not only through the Central African sub region but throughout the continent.

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Safelayer Invited by Spain to Participate on The European Commission’s Technical Committee for Standardizing the Electronic Passport

Gadgets, Site Feeds, aving.netJune 13th, 2009 BARCELONA, June 12 /PRNewswire/ — Safelayer Secure Communications S.A., the market leader in security and trust for information and communication technologies, is taking part with the Spanish National Police in the BIG (Brussels Interoperability Group) technical committee being attended by EU Member States. The company is the leader in the development...

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Lorenzo claims pole in Spain

YAMAHA rider Jorge Lorenzo will start the Catalunya MotoGP race at Montmelo, near Barcelona, from pole position.

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Seat Leon Twin Drive Ecomotive Concept revealed

Seat Leon Twin Drive Ecomotive Concept revealed - trymi

The Leon Twin Drive Ecomotive hybrid concept by Seat was revealed at the firm’s Martorell Research and Development facility near Barcelona, Spain. This hybrid concept will be the foundation of a production vehicle that might see the light of day in 2014.

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Espanyol vs Barcelona Live Online

Watch free Espanyol vs Barcelona live online match highlights. SPAIN: Copa del Rey soccer match between Espanyol vs Barcelona at the Montjuic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain , January 21, 2009.

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Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid Live

Watch free Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid live match highlights. Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match between Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, January 14, 2009. Live streams will be updated before the kick-off.