Alonso started the race very well, ahead of Maldonado, who was on “pole position” after the disqualification of Lewis Hamilton.

When the Spanish crowd began to celebrate his victory, Alonso lost his lead to the Williams driver’s in the second round of pit stops.

This was the first victory in Formula 1 for Maldonado from Venezuela’s and 114 for the Williams team.

After the race in Barcelona, Alonso has moved to the second position in the overall classification after Sebastian Vettelem (Red Bull) and Lewis Hamilton (Williams) is on the third place.

Source: El Pais

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The key to success in Barcelona is a well-balanced car, which can cope with the various medium-speed corners. It is not a great place for overtaking and a good qualifying result has been considered essential to win the race. In the past, the driver on pole position has won this race for nine of the last ten seasons.

Michael Schumacher has been the most successful driver at Barcelona circuit wining this race six times. This year he is not confident that Mercedes will achieve the victory on Sunday, claiming that the characteristics of the Circuit de Catalunya did not appear to suit the MGP W03 in pre-season testing.

Kimi Raikkonen is the only other current driver to have won this event more than once, in 2005 for McLaren and in 2008 for Ferrari. He can do it again on Sunday, especially that he came close to taking victory at the last race in Bahrain.

Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button have all won the Spanish Grand Prix once. Certainly Vettel and Button could take the win unless Ferrari makes a surplice, although it looks that a wet race is necessary for Alonso to win in front of his Spanish fans. Alonso’s only victory in Barcelona came in 2006 for Renault.

Alonso expects the Catalan track will serve “to change this trend in 2012 … in terms of points we are pretty good, but in Barcelona we have to take a step forward and look forward to win” said Alonso was to the Spanish press

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Source: Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona

A rural folk band.of folk-singing grandmothers called ”Jarzebina” (Polish for rowanberry) won the race to represent the Polish football team at Euro 2012 with their tune “Koko Euro Spoko”, which translates loosely as Clucking Cool Euro.

Jarzebina, who are a collection of woman aged between 32 and 82 won in a competition during a public concert in Warsaw causing a lot of controversy. However the song is getting more popular every day in Poland and internationally “Not only poles congratulate us. We get SMS and phone calls from all over the world ” said the band.

“The Rocky Road To Poland” is the official Republic of Ireland song for Euro 2012, written by Ray D’Arcy and recorded in Windmill Lane Studios by super-group Damien Dempsey, Bressie, Danny O’Reilly (Coronas) and The Dubliners (John Sheehan, Barney McKenna, Eamonn Campbell, Patsy Watchorn).

The Irish Euro 2012 Squad and Ray D’Arcy Show listeners also feature on the track which was produced by legendary producer John Reynolds. Many people in Ireland anticipate that their song will be the best national anthem for Euro 2012.

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The video has been realized to conclude 2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards, which took place last week in Miami.

Shakira got six awards making her one of the highest female recipients in Billboard history with an incredible 29 Latin Billboard Awards. Awards received this year include:  Songs Artist of the Year, Female; Albums Artist of the Year, Female; Latin Pop Songs Artist of the Year, Solo; and Social Artist of the Year
 

Source: El Pais

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The Rolling Stones released a book to mark the milestone, which includes amazing photographs taken by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Gered Mankowitz, Jean-Marie Périer, Dezo Hoffmann, Michael Cooper, Terry O’Neill, Bent Rej, Philip Townsend and others.

Curated, introduced and narrated by the band themselves, ’The Rolling Stones 50′ includes unseen and rare material, it is packed with superb reportage photography, contact sheets, negative strips, outtakes and so much more, from every period in the band’s history.

“This is our story of 50 fantastic years,” the rock ’n’ rollers said.

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A tired looking Valencia had the first chance of the game. However Malaga’s first attack gave them a goal by Ignacio with his brilliant headed effort into the bottom left hand corner.

Malaga continued to dominate in the second half but failed to extend their lead, although it did not matter as they held on to win.

Malaga’s player Joaquín who moved to Andalusian team last year from Valencia said after the match: “These three points are crucial for us.  It was a really positive game and we maintained our concentration throughout.  We’re now focused on the match against Barcelona, we know they’re a tough team to beat.  We’ll also try and dominate the match against Atletico de Madrid, as we’re playing well in away games”.

The next match Malaga vs Barcelona will take place on 2nd May – watch the highlights on TVHiszpania.com

Source: Source: Publico GolTV
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The new film by Patricia Ferreira, director of “Para que no me olvides” and “El alquimista” among other productions, explore the problems of communication and a disintegration process of young people. The director who also wrote the screenplay, said “the film is about those kids screaming, rude and irresponsible that could be our own or perfect strangers, anyone children – wild children are everywhere.”

Alex, Gabi and Oky are three teenagers who live in a big city. They are strangers for their parents, their teachers and to themselves. What would happen if we could know what they are thinking and what they would like to do? Their emotional isolation will have unexpected consequences that will affect all the society.

In the official contest, the main prizes of Golden Biznaga were awarded in the following categories:

• Best Director: Imanol Uribe for the film Miel de naranjas
• Best actress: Carmina Barrios za film Carmina o revienta
• Best actor: Antonio Dechent za film A puerta fría
• Best script: Patricia Ferreira y Virginia Yagüe za film Els nens salvatges
• Best soundtrack: Aziza Brahim za film Wilaya
• Best cinematographer: Sergi Gallardo za film El sexo de los ángeles

The full list of awards of the Malaga Festiwal of Spanish Cinema is available on the web page: PALMARÉS OFICIAL DEL 15 FESTIVAL DE MÁLAGA. CINE ESPAÑOL

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Bahrain GP took place despite the clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and security forces. 
King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa said in a statement that he wanted “to make clear my personal commitment to reform and reconciliation in our great country”.
His statement came a day after an anti-government protester Salah Habib Abbas, 37, was killed by security forces.

Violent disturbances have been intensifying in recent days with around 50,000 protesters gathering around Manama and fighting pitched battles with security officials.
Petrol bombs have been hurled at security officials, tyres set ablaze and anti-grand prix graffiti daubed on walls – see above photo.

Source: El Pais

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The main star of Malaga film festival is Elena Anaya, who is going to receive the maun award for lifetime achievement. The other well know names visiting the Malga festival are María Valverde, Ángela Molina, Inma Cuesta, Elena Furiase and Nerea Camacho.


Gonzalo Suarez, president of the jury welcomed the guests: “I’ve never seen so much enthusiasm, but i suspect that all these young people out there do not go to movies” He was referring to the huge crowd of young people who decided to come to the gala rather than watching Ell Clasico match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, which was happening simultaneously and showing on TV in all bars around Teatro Cervantes.

Pedestrians on Calle Larios were astonished today when they were offered an armcher and special glase to watch 3D movies.

Festival De Malaga website
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Summary:

Before the game, both teams were equal in terms of historical clashes between them, with 86 victories each. Thus, Real Madrid has broken the balance. In the duel between coaches, Guardiola’s victory over Mourinho is still considerable. During 11 clashes between them, Guardiola has won five victories and four draws, with only two loss, today and last year at the final of Copa del Rey

Anual budgets:

In this section there is no equality between Barcelona and Real Madrid – 490 million for Real in this season and 461 million Euro for Catalans.

Wages:

The stars of Real Madrid have higher wages than their counterparts in Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo takes a salary of 13 million Euro a year comparing to Leo Messi’s salary of 10.5 million.
Although Messi has received more from advertising and image rights – around 21 million Euro, while Ronaldo stays at “only” 15.5 million Euro.
Messi dominates in the total annual revenue with 33 million Euro, ahead of veteran David Beckham 31.5 and Ronaldo 29.2 mln Euro on the third place. Sitting on the bench, Mourinho earns 14.8 million Euro a year, higher than Guardiola 9.5.

Debts:

Dream machines in the field, the two best teams in the Spanish league are a disaster in the finances.
The total debt amount of Real Madrid is 590 million Euro, more than Barcelona 578. In the last season Real declared an annual income of 479 million Euro and Catalans 451.

TV ratings:

The final viewing numbers are not known jet but El Classico on Saturday had smaller audience than the record registered last season on May 3 in the semi final of the Champions League between Barcelona and Real Madrid, which brought together more than 14 million viewers.
To achieve this, about 300 professionals and 34 television cameras were used to make sure that all small details of the match and all movements of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the pitch are recorded.

Media Coverage

Mediapro, the company which holds the broadcasting rights for the Spanish league expected an audience of over 400 million viewers.
FC Barcelona press office announced that the number of media professionals accredited for the game this Saturday reached 780 people, representing 133 media organizations from 31 different countries..
The match was covered live by 74 press journalists, 16 news agencies, 4 radio stations and 39 television companies, including almost all European countries and some more distant such as United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, China and Qatar.

Sorce: FC Barcelona  /  Real Madrid  /  Publico Gol TV

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The study confirms that, the purchase habits have not been effected by the crisis. Most of the Spaniards are choosing a supermarket for the products and brands they like, the second principle is proximity of the shop and the low price is only the third choice.

Buying the good quality and recognised products is very important or important for more than 90% of Spaniards, 78% are annoyed if they cannot find the favourite product and 30% of consumers are ready to look for them in other shops.

Over the past four years, the economic crisis particularly affected Spain. To understand the overall level of the cost of living in Spain, we have listed the prices of daily use in 2009 and currently in 2012. The prices could of course be varied depending on the place of their acquisition and the region. Most expensive prices appear in Madrid and Barcelona. The bellow prices have been collected in Málaga, Costa Del Sol, which roughly represents the national average prices. They are as follow:

The prices confirm the real estate crash as the value of properties decreased to 50% and strength of the tourism trade with the steady prices of hotels. The domestic expenses of fuel, electricity, gas, public transport have risen from 10 to 20%. The food expenses increased relatively little, according to the inflation rate. From 2002 to 2010, the average inflation rate was 2.78%, reaching the highest level of 5.00% in July 2008 and the lowest level of 1.40% in July 2009. The latest data from March 2012 is 1.9%.

Minimum wages in Spain have been frozen at the level of 641.40 Euro per month for full time jobs, despite the promise of the former leader, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to increase it to 800 Euro in 2012the.

The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced during the last visit to Poland that Spain did not need any help and was on the track to tackle the crisis.

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