'Why do Spaniards do their 'business' in the sea?' and 10 more news stories published in the El País English edition this year

Why do Spaniards 'shit' in the sea and can you sleep in the Spanish heat? Top 10 Spain news stories read by English-speakers this year

Spain's most popular newspaper, El País, publishes a small English-language edition. Here are the top ten stories of the English edition in 2015.

Not one of the top ten, but one of the final articles to appear in El País English edition in 2015 is: Spain's 1st Black Member of Parliament, Rita Bosaho: 'Achieving equality should be a question of state.'

As the first black person to be elected to Spain's Congress, Rita Bosaho says she is "overcome" by the media attention she has received over the last week. Born with Spanish nationality in Spain's former African colony of Equatorial Guinea, she came to Spain at the age of four, …

No Communion, No Money, No Catholic; Innit in Spanish; Anti-Drunk-Walking

My latest Spain related things on Newsvine:

I'm simply Christian now: Divorced Catholic leaves Church after being refused communion, but asked for money

Last Sunday was an important day for Angela Conesa: her son had his First Communion. However, Angela was not able to take communion herself that day. Why? Because, as local Church officials reminded her in a letter a few days before the event, divorced Catholics who remarry civi …

Handy Spanish phrases for British tourists (Video)

To help prepare British holidaymakers travelling to Spain this summer, former professional soccer player and now Hollywood actor, Vinnie Jones, delivers a performance like never before as he launches his own Spanish lessons. Check it out for all those essential Spanish phrases li …

Spain wants to ban drunk walking and set speed-limit for joggers

Graves, Breast Implants, Sex, Tattoos and Juana la Loca

My Newsvine Articles and Posts with Spain related content, June-September 2014

First mass grave of 14th-century plague victims found in Spain

Photo: An overview of the pit excavated in the Basilica of Sant Just i Pastor. / Irene Gibrat

The Basilica of Sant Just i Pastor, in the heart of Barcelona’s historic Gothic Quarter, has been a place of Christian worship since the fourth century. In recent years it has provided archeologists with rich bounty:

Woman carrying 1.7 kilos of cocaine in breast implants arrested at Madrid airport

Spanish police have arrested a woman with 1.7 kilos of cocaine concealed inside her breast implants. The Venezuelan citizen was taken to a hospital immediately, due to the health risks associated with the toxicity of the drugs. The 43 year-old had come to Madrid on a flight …

Spanish police ticket 3 couples having sex in van – for not wearing seat belts

The sex ended up costing them 100 euros a person which, believe it or not, was actually a bargain. Police on the Spanish island of Ibiza who stopped a van last week during a routine DUI checkpoint were surprised to discover, while talking to the driver, that there were three cou …

Juana La Loca Syndrome in Venezuela

Juana La Loca Syndrome: that's how one Venezuelan writer describes the rush of his fellow citizens to get tattooed with images of and tributes to Hugo Chavez. Writing in Spain's Estrella Digital, former Radio Caracas Television Internacional reporter Noe Pernia compares the …

Recent Newsvine articles on Spain

Here are links to some recent articles I've posted on Newsvine:

Man flabbergasted to be fired for flatulence — and belching — and nail clipping

ER has to call in firefighters with buzz-saws to rescue man's member from steel sex toy

  

Police raid Barcelona gay bars during Gay Pride celebrations

Meet a 76-year-old 'skateboarding grandpa' Video

Strip Shopping: clothing chain gives free outfits to customers who show-up only in underwear; one store tops all with nude event (Video)

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Various Spain related articles (and one 'seed')

Here are links to the two Spain related articles I've written for Newsvine so far this month:

ER patient found with jewelry in vagina is suspected of theft

Town sends dog poop back to pet owners through special 'lost and found' program (Video)

And here is a 'seed' I planted on 30 May: 

North America braces for strong hurricane season, while Europe faces coldest summer in 200 years

For a complete list of my Spain related articles and seeds on Newsvine, go to:

carloz.newsvine.com/spain.

Miscellaneous Spain stories

Here are links to a few Spain related articles I've written recently for Newsvine:

Unemployed journalism grad sings resumé on YouTube, lands TV job

Controversy in Barcelona over Columbus statute wearing Barca jersey

Man arrested for breaking, entering and attempted theft of $215,000 he'd paid to psychic for faulty love potion

Spain deports Moroccan as 'threat to national security,' in case touching on independence for Catalonia and Western Sahara

Spain's conservative party leader calls eviction protests 'pure Nazism'

Queen Isabella of Spain set to conquer Europe and America

Grand Hotel, Spain's Downton Abbey, to be shown in the USA, with English subtitles (Video Clip)

For a complete list of my Spain related articles and seeds on Newsvine, go to:  

carloz.newsvine.com/spain.

Spain Crowns King of Wreckless Driving: 23-year-old with more than 150 arrests doesn't even have a licence

Japito, as Benjamín López Rojo is known in his native town of Carballo, got behind the wheel at a very young age. He soon became one of the most reliable getaway drivers for Galicia’s burglars and bank robbers, local daily La Voz de Galicia reported on Friday.

And yet until only last August, Japito had managed to escape jail time by hiding away in O Sisto, a neighbourhood of Carballo where even the Guardia Civil didn't dare enter. But Japito grew tired of living his life on the run and in August of last year he took his lawyer to the local police station and handed himself in.

For now, Spain’s most reckless driver has been sentenced to 26 years at Teixeiro penitentiary (Galicia).

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