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A Billabong employee opens the company store in central Sydney (Reuters)

Billabong shares plunge video

Billabong shares have just about been wiped out – what's happened to this famous brand?

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Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes (Reuters)

Blood bags ordered to be destroyed video

A court has ordered evidence at the centre of an anti-doping case be destroyed, rather than reveal the names of the drug cheats.

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Cyber-attack suspect had bunker in Spain

A dutch man has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching the biggest cyber-attack in history.

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Spain's Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martinez (L) and Europol's director Rob Wainwright (R) announce the bust (AAP)

‘Ransomware’ gang busted

Spanish authorities have announced the breakup of a cybercrime gang that used a "ransomware" virus to lock computers and demanded payment to unlock them.

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One of the victim's bodies being taken from the couple's Mallorca home (AAP)

Couple commits suicide over eviction

The couple's deaths have stoked an outcry over Spain's tough eviction laws, just before Parliament unanimously voted in favour of debating changes.

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A rescue vessel (L) is seen next to the overturned lifeboat of the Thomson Majesty cruise ship (AAP)

5 crew killed in cruise ship drill

A lifeboat from a cruise ship fell upside down into the sea in Spain's Canary Islands during a safety drill, killing five crew and injuring three others.

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A sign reading "No crossing, P.G.J.E."(Attorney General of the State) hangs from a string to cordon off a crime scene at a beach hotel, where six female Spanish tourists were raped by armed men, in Acapulco (Reuters)

Six Spanish tourists raped in Mexico

Authorities have information they hope will lead them to the gang of armed, masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in Acapulco.

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Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes as he enters a courthouse on the first day of the doping trial in Madrid (Reuters)

Spanish doctor's trial over cycling doping video

The first day of Spain's long-awaited Operation Puerto trial ended without any new revelations about doping in cycling.

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A man reads a first edition copy of Spanish newspaper El Pais, with the fake photo of Hugo Chavez on the front page (Reuters)

Fake Chavez photo forces paper reprint

A leading Spanish newspaper discovered its front-page exclusive photograph supposedly showing ailing Hugo Chavez being treated in Cuba was a fake.

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Catalonia declares itself a sovereign entity

The parliament of Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia has approved a largely symbolic declaration.

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A crowd is seen gathering in this still taken from CCTV footage released by Spanish police

Woman rescued after fainting on train tracks video

CCTV footage shows the rescue of a woman who fell onto train tracks at a Madrid metro station.

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Convergencia i Unio (CIU) party candidate for Catalonia's regional government Artur Mas gestures during a news conference in Barcelona (Reuters/Albert Gea)

Catalonia punishes pro-referendum leader

An early election in Catalonia has reduced the majority of a pro-independence referendum leader.

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Catalonia's leader Artur Mas casts his vote in Barcelona (Reuters)

Catalan elections test Spain’s unity

The outcome of elections in the region of Catalonia could determine whether it holds a referendum asking Catalans if they want to remain part of Spain.

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Anti-government graffiti in Madrid, Spain (Reuters)

Eurozone falls back into recession video

The 17-country eurozone has fallen back into recession for the first time in three years with the fallout from felt from Amsterdam to Athens.

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Protesters in Pontevedra, Spain (Reuters)

Austerity protests stall European cities video

Hundreds of thousands of Europe's beleaguered citizens have gone on strike demanding that governments stop cutting benefits and jobs.

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A Halloween mask outside the Madrid Arena Stadium (Reuters)

3 dead in Halloween party stampede

A stampede in a Spanish arena where thousands of people were attending a Halloween dance party has killed three women, officials said.

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Three members of Basque separatist group ETA in October 2011 (Supplied)

Top ETA leader arrested in France

A member of the Basque separatist group ETA responsible for its arms and explosives caches has been arrested in eastern France, officials say.

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Hundreds of merino sheep are herded past Madrid's famous landmark Puerta de Alcala (Reuters)

Sheep take over Spanish streets

Spanish shepherds have led a flock of more than 2,000 sheep through central Madrid.

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Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajo (Reuters)

Crisis, separatism dominate Spanish elections

Voters in Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's northwestern home region of Galicia have given their support to his handling of the economy.

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A resident looks at a collapsed building in Lorca (Reuters)

Deep wells linked to deadly quake

Farmers drilling wells over decades to water their crops likely contributed to a deadly earthquake in southern Spain last year.

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