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Brazilian playmaker Kaka was officially presented as a Real Madrid player, after being handed the number eight jersey in front of thousands of supporters and a huge media contingent at the club's Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday evening.
MADRID (AP) -- Real Madrid has completed the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United.
Andy Murray's title defence at the Madrid Open came to an end late on Friday as he lost his quarterfinal match to Juan Martin Del Potro in straight sets.
A Spanish court convicted four men Tuesday but acquitted 10 others of charges that they helped four suspects from the Madrid train bombings to flee.
A Spanish pathologist who specialized in a human strain of mad cow disease died Saturday, and officials suspect the disease played a role in his death, officials said.
If a week is a long time in politics, it can be forever in soccer. Seven days was all it took to completely change attitudes on both sides of Spain's great divide and reopen a title race that appeared all over.
Real Madrid bounced back from their Champions League humiliation by Liverpool to beat 10-man Athletic Bilbao 5-2 in a thrilling and fiery encounter at San Mames.
For five years, the horrible memory has lingered in the minds of Madrid's commuters, quietly riding their trains into the heart of the city. The pain is easing, but it's a nagging ache just the same.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was set to address an international meeting on combating hunger in Madrid on Tuesday, the first such event since the global financial crisis hit hard.
Thousands of demonstrators in Madrid Sunday called for a halt to Israel's attacks on Gaza, in a protest whose sponsors included Spain's ruling Socialist Party.
Brazilian playmaker Kaka was officially presented as a Real Madrid player, after being handed the number eight jersey in front of thousands of supporters and a huge media contingent at the club's Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday evening.
MADRID (AP) -- Real Madrid has completed the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United.
Andy Murray's title defence at the Madrid Open came to an end late on Friday as he lost his quarterfinal match to Juan Martin Del Potro in straight sets.
A Spanish court convicted four men Tuesday but acquitted 10 others of charges that they helped four suspects from the Madrid train bombings to flee.
A Spanish pathologist who specialized in a human strain of mad cow disease died Saturday, and officials suspect the disease played a role in his death, officials said.
If a week is a long time in politics, it can be forever in soccer. Seven days was all it took to completely change attitudes on both sides of Spain's great divide and reopen a title race that appeared all over.
Real Madrid bounced back from their Champions League humiliation by Liverpool to beat 10-man Athletic Bilbao 5-2 in a thrilling and fiery encounter at San Mames.
For five years, the horrible memory has lingered in the minds of Madrid's commuters, quietly riding their trains into the heart of the city. The pain is easing, but it's a nagging ache just the same.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was set to address an international meeting on combating hunger in Madrid on Tuesday, the first such event since the global financial crisis hit hard.
Thousands of demonstrators in Madrid Sunday called for a halt to Israel's attacks on Gaza, in a protest whose sponsors included Spain's ruling Socialist Party.
A heavy snowstorm caused chaos Friday at Madrid's Barajas Airport, where flights were suspended for hours before Europe's fourth-busiest airport reopened in the late afternoon.
A suspected Colombian drug boss was shot dead Thursday in a hospital in Madrid, CNN sister station CNN+ reported, citing police sources.
A Moroccan court sentenced a Moroccan man to 20 years in prison for his role in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, in a case built on evidence from Spanish police, a Spanish court spokeswoman said Friday.
These are difficult days for the Calderóns -- Ramón, the Real Madrid president, and Vicente, the Atlético Madrid stadium -- as both are forced to defend their honor in the face of what they deem to be "conspiracies" against them.
Real Madrid have agreed to sign Netherlands striker Klaus-Jan Huntelaar from Ajax for an initial euro20 million ($25.4 million).
Raul Gonzalez scored an early goal to help Real Madrid beat BATE Borisov 1-0 in Group H to earn a spot in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Third-division Real Union upset Real Madrid 3-2 in the Copa del Rey on Thursday, continuing the Spanish champions' poor record in the competition they have not won since 1993.
Alessandro Del Piero and Amauri scored early in each half as Serie A hopes Juventus grabbed the lead in their Champions League group with a vital 2-1 home win against Real Madrid.
A judge in Spain has freed most of 12 suspected Islamic terrorists he ordered to be arrested a week earlier, saying there was not enough evidence to hold them, an official said Tuesday.
The Spanish judge investigating an August plane crash that killed 154 people in Madrid will question three mechanics on suspicion of manslaughter, a Madrid Superior Court spokesman said Thursday.
A Madrid court says the judge probing the Spanair plane crash that killed 154 people in August has called in three mechanics for questioning on suspicion of manslaughter
A Spanish court on Tuesday agreed to temporarily extradite a man convicted in the 2004 Madrid train bombings to Morocco, where he faces charges in connection with the Casablanca bombings in 2003, a court spokeswoman told CNN.
Jose Maria "Guti" Gutierrez scored the 5,000th Spanish league goal in Real Madrid's history to help the defending champions beat newly-promoted Numancia 4-3 on Sunday for their first win of the season.
Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner network CNN+ reported Thursday.
A woman who survived last week's Spanair airline crash in Madrid left the hospital Tuesday, saying she was "born again" by the disaster.
A woman who survived this week's devastating plane crash in Madrid said Saturday the aircraft struggled to gain altitude
A Spanair MD-82 airliner was not on fire as it took off from Madrid's airport but lifted off slightly into the air, fell back to the ground and caught fire only after skidding off the side of the runway, a source familiar said Friday.
DNA tests will be needed to identify many of the 153 people killed in a Spanish plane crash, officials said Thursday.
A gauge indicating that overheated air was entering a Spanair jetliner forced pilots to abandon a takeoff about an hour before the plane crashed in flames, but airline officials refused to speculate on the cause of the accident that killed 153 people
An investigation is underway into what caused the plane to crash upon takeoff
The MD-82 model plane which crashed in Madrid Wednesday killing 'most' of the 172 people onboard has been the workhorse of many U.S. carriers for years, CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest says.
Spain expelled a Syrian Tuesday who was convicted last year but later acquitted on appeal of a role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokeswoman said.
Joyous Spanish fans partied hard into the early hours Monday morning after their side defeated Germany 1-0 to claim their first major football title in 44 years.
Gas stations in Madrid and the northeastern Catalonia region began running out of fuel Monday as an indefinite strike by truckers began to bite
The Spanish tennis federation has ignored the wishes of its players and named Madrid as the venue for the Davis Cup semifinal against the United States in September.
Spanish tennis players have rebelled against their federation over its likely choice of Madrid as the site of the Davis Cup semifinal against the United States between September 19-21.
Marc Michel, director of digital marketing firm Greater Than One, based in New York, needed a local office to run European ad campaigns for U.S. medical firms. So he spent July 2007 scouting London, Hamburg, Zurich, and other cities. But Michel, 33, soon settled on Madrid.
Real Madrid's antiquated private jet, La Saeta, will remain grounded at Barajas airport. Not, as the Catalan media gleefully pointed out, because it breaks noise pollution laws and is prohibited from flying over Germany to get to Moscow, but because Real Madrid won't be traveling to the Russian capital at all.
Mad cow disease has killed two people since December in the Castilla Leon region north of Madrid, a regional health authority spokeswoman told CNN Monday.
It's a rematch in Spain in Sunday's elections, as the Socialist prime minister, who won an upset victory four years ago in the wake of the Madrid train bombings, faces the conservative challenger.
A Spanish court Wednesday convicted 20 men, mainly Algerians and Moroccans, of Islamic terrorist activity, but none was found guilty of the more serious charge of an alleged plot to destroy Madrid's anti-terrorism courthouse with a truck bomb, according to a copy of the sentence viewed by CNN.
Moroccan police have arrested a prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings of 2004 but he is unlikely to be extradited to Spain, a Spanish judicial source told CNN Monday.
What is "Super CDW" -- and why is it on Rick Murai's credit card bill after he rents a car from Alamo in Madrid? The car rental company's Web site is less than clear about the fee, and Murai's credit card company refuses to get involved. Is he stuck with the bill?
Werder Bremen breathed fresh life into their Champions League bid with a 3-2 victory over Group C leaders Real Madrid, a result that denied Real the point they needed to seal qualification.
Let me pack you along for a day on the road to help demystify what goes into the making of a guidebook.
Olympiakos denied Real Madrid the chance to qualify for the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League with two games to spare after holding the Spanish side to a 0-0 draw in Athens on Tuesday night.
The culmination of the 2007 season begins on Tuesday, when the top eight singles players and top four doubles teams in the world compete for the WTA Championships in Madrid. All year, players have battled for enough quality points to earn a place among the elite in the year's final event.
A Spanish court Wednesday delivered an unexpectedly mixed verdict in the trial of 28 defendants charged in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, convicting three of mass murder but delivering lesser convictions against the others.
Spain's National Court convicted most of the 28 suspects from the 2004 bombings, while others went unpunished
A Spanish court on Wednesday delivered a mixed verdict in the trial of 28 defendants charged in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, convicting three of mass murder but delivering lesser convictions against the others.
An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court
The accused in the Madrid train bombing are scheduled to hear the verdicts and sentencing on Wednesday morning. All of the 28 defendants are men except for one Spanish woman. All the defendants have pleaded not guilty during the trial.
Six suspected Islamic militants were Wednesday arrested in northern Spain on suspicion of using the Internet to recruit for and plot a 'world jihad,' a Ministry of Interior statement said.
Rafael Nadal returned to action for the first time in more than six weeks on Wednesday and did not disappointment his fans with a 6-4 6-4 win over Marcos Baghdatis at the Madrid Masters.
Thirty suspected Islamic terrorists went on trial Monday in a courthouse they are charged with plotting to destroy with a truck bomb.
Of all Real Madrid's 30 Spanish titles, the one they clinched last weekend was perhaps the most hard-fought and the most savored.
Jose Antonio Reyes came on as a 66th minute substitute for injured David Beckham and scored twice as Real Madrid beat Real Mallorca 3-1 to lift their 30th Primera Liga title.
Two men who had been relatively minor defendants have been upgraded to prime suspects in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people and wounded 1,800 others in 2004.
At least four key defendants in the Madrid train bombings trial are on a hunger strike it emerged Wednesday as the judge sent one for medical treatment after he lay down in the courtroom.
Spanish football fans dismayed by their country's failure to produce a single Champions League semifinalist for the second time in three years do at least have the distraction of an enthralling battle for the Liga title to look forward to.
A Spanish judge has charged a Moroccan man as an additional prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings, and ordered that he be brought to Spain from Morocco, where he is currently in jail on other charges.
An accused mastermind of the Madrid train bombings took the stand again Monday and strengthened his denial of any involvement in the attacks in March 2004 that killed 191 people, at one point seeming to compare himself with Pope Benedict XVI.
The Madrid train bombings trial entered its second day Friday with three more defendants denying involvement in the 2004 attacks that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.
The Madrid train bombings trial is under way, nearly three years after terrorists killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 on morning rush-hour commuter trains in the Spanish capital.
The trial in the Madrid train bombing is under way, nearly three years after terrorists killed 191 people and wounded 1,800 on morning rush-hour commuter trains in the Spanish capital.
The trial of suspects in the Madrid train bombing case will start February 15, the National Court said Tuesday, nearly three years after terrorists killed 191 people and wounded 1,800 others in coordinated bombings of morning rush-hour commuter trains in the Spanish capital.
Spanish police arrested five alleged Islamic radicals for their suspected roles in helping two Madrid train bombing fugitives to flee after the 2004 attacks, an Interior Ministry statement said Wednesday.
Midfielder Fernando Gago's transfer from Boca Juniors to Real Madrid is on hold because talks are deadlocked over the fee.
Juan Miguel Villar Mir, who finished third in Real Madrid's presidential election, still expects to be declared the winner.
Prosecutors in the Madrid train bombing case will seek prison terms of about 38,000 years for each of the seven prime defendants in the trial due to start next February, according to a prosecution order released Monday and viewed by CNN.
World number three Justine Henin-Hardenne will compete in next week's end-of-season WTA Championships in Madrid after a seven-week layoff with a knee injury.
A Spanish court has ruled the investigative phase of the Madrid train bombings of 2004 has concluded, and the case is ready for trial against 29 defendants, although the court did not immediately set a trial date.
Manuel "Nolito" Agudo scored an 81st-minute equalizer to earn third-division Ecija a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday.
Madrid is the ultimate makeover city -- a once-grand imperial capital that has thrown off its conservative instincts and reinvented itself as a laidback party town. If Madrid was once widely perceived as a stuffy ornamental backwater compared with Spain's vibrant regional capitals, it's no longer the case. Communities from North Africa, Latin America and Asia have added cosmopolitan flavor to the city's Castilian heritage. Globally recognized for its nightlife, Madrid exists on a time zone all of its own: dinner at 10, a bar at midnight, clubbing at two and a hangover-busting breakfast of churros con chocolate as the sun comes up. Madrid reputedly has more bars per square kilometer than any other city in Europe -- which means you're spoilt for choice any day of the week, any hour of the day. Not that you necessarily need to stay out until 4 am to enjoy yourself. Spend a sunny afternoon people-watching from one of Madrid's pavement cafés with a carafe of vino tinto and a few raciones and you'll soon find y
Traveling the world between catwalk shows, photo shoots and parties and appearing on the covers of glossy magazines, models are used to living in the spotlight.
The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
Madrid, which failed in its quest to host the 2012 Olympics last year, will present a fresh bid for the 2016 summer Games.
A Moroccan man under indictment in the Madrid train bombing case has been released from prison because of an error in legal proceedings, a court official has told CNN.
A Spanish judge has indicted 29 people in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, including five who are charged directly with the deaths of the 191 victims.
A Spanish judge has indicted 33 suspected Islamic extremists in a failed plot to attack the National Court in Madrid, which tries terrorism cases, with a truck bomb, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.
Two schoolchildren laid a wreath Saturday in a Madrid park while victims of the Madrid train bombings looked on in a silent ceremony as the nation marked the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 191 people and wounded 1,741 others.
Nine suspects in the Madrid train bombing case will remain in custody beyond the nearly two years they have already served in pre-trial prison, the judge in charge of the investigation has ruled.
With the second anniversary of the deadly Madrid train bombings nearing, the judge investigating the case is close to issuing indictments against possibly as many as 40 suspects, court sources and several lawyers told CNN.
The Scene spent the day in Madrid with flamenco superstar Joaquin Cortes. Do you have a favorite hangout in the Spanish capital? What's so special about Madrid's nightlife? Send us your suggestions and ideas and read your comments below.
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The Scene talks to flamenco superstar Joaquin Cortes about Madrid's cultural resurgence.
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Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Spanish capital and send us your ideas and suggestions below.
Good food is not something generally associated with the beautiful game, but if gastronomy and football are two of your passions, and you are looking for the pinnacle of each, then few cities fare better than the Spanish capital, Madrid.
Five small bombs have exploded near Madrid, causing little damage and no casualties, after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, an interior ministry spokesman told CNN.
Physical exercise could help keep the brain alert and fully functioning as the body ages, new research has suggested, while a newly developed training program has shown regular mental exertion is just as important.
Serbia on Sunday extradited to Spain a Moroccan man who is prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings last year that killed 191 people, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Real Madrid completed a miserable week when they slipped to a third defeat in a row after losing 1-0 at Espanyol in the Primera Liga.
The Spanish government has agreed to seek the extradition from Serbia of a Moroccan man wanted as a prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.
A Madrid train bombing suspect wanted on an international warrant since last year has been arrested in Serbia where he was carrying forged Iraqi documents, Spain's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Two small bombs exploded on major Spanish highways west and south of Madrid Friday afternoon after a warning call was made in the name of the Basque separatist group ETA.
Spanish officials have downplayed British press reports that a Syrian-born Spaniard -- Mustafa Setmarian Nasar -- who is linked to al Qaeda activities and the Madrid train bombings, was also behind the London bombings last week.
A Spanish judge has charged five more suspects in the Madrid train bombings case and ordered them to remain in jail following their arrest last week, according to court documents seen by CNN.
A key suspect in the Madrid train bombings has appeared as a witness at the trial of 24 al Qaeda suspects in Madrid, as authorities seek to clarify how well he knew several of the suspects -- including the alleged ringleader.
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