washingtonpost.com - Metro:
A 71-year old Spanish teacher in the Alexandria city schools was killed by her car Friday as she was apparently leaving for work, authorities said.
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thinkSPAIN - The leading English Spanish newspaper and website:
BRITISH ambassador in Spain Giles Paxman has been called upon to give explanations after Guardia Civil officers caught a UK naval patrol boat's crew using the Spanish flag as target practice off the coast of Gibraltar. (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Think a paradise break in the Indian Ocean will cost a small fortune? Not on Zanzibar where a clutch of new boutique hotels offers cool style and seriously good valueFragile thing holiday serenity. Zanzibar has the full deck (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This fast-paced thriller has a compassionate heart, says Josh LaceyThere is an obvious pun in the title of Daniel Finn's new novel. (He has written other books as Will Gatti, but this is his first to be published under this n (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – n (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Ian Sansom reads between the lines of three collections of correspondencePity poor Gordon Brown and his letter of condolence. Because what can one possibly say? And how can one say it? It's not as easy as it looks. Take Georg (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investors in Thomas Cook and Tui Travel must wish they could get away from it all. The two travel companies were the biggest fallers in the leading index following downgrades on both companies from Morgan Stanley. In particul (Read More)
The Guardian:
Shares in National Express have accelerated by nearly 5% on news that the Cosmen family has increased its stake in the bus and rail operator.According to an official statement Jorge Cosmen has bought another 501,823 shares at (Read More)
FT.com - Energy Utilities Mining:
Carlyle has teamed up with Spain's Magnum Capital, and is likely to bid through its joint venture with Riverstone Holdings, for assets put up for sale by the Spanish gas company. (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Henry 'not proud' of Ireland handball incident• Barça coach would support use of video analysis in gamesThierry Henry was confronted by a giant, eight-foot poster of himself emblazoned with the words "I'm sorry" when he dep (Read More)
SF Gate:
Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery Ashton is Europe's first foreign policy chief, the international representative of half a billion people, with a 7 billion euro ($10.5 billion) budget and a salary of more than (Read More)
Reuters Video: Top News:
Nov 20 - The hijacked Spanish trawler "Alakrana" arrives in the Seychelles after the boat and crew were released. The crew were held hostage by Somali pirates for 48 days.
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The Guardian:
From the 2005 Champions League final to a Prenton Park classic, here are half a dozen of the best games of the noughties1) Milan 3-3 Liverpool, 2005 Champions League finalIn 2001 a prankster named Karl Power crept into the Ma (Read More)
thinkSPAIN - The leading English Spanish newspaper and website:
Two Spanish tourists are still missing in the Red Sea after their dive boat sank off Egypt's Sinai coast, a popular beach holiday and diving destination.The married couple, Israel Pérez and Maria Lourdes González, both 33, wh (Read More)
Huffington Post:
I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teachers insisted that I take Spanish because it was "the language of the future. (Read More)