10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Southern Spain [via the AP via NPR] Authorities in Spain are considering whether a 10-year-old in Spain should be permitted to keep her newborn baby. An official from Andalusia said the father is also a minor and that mother and baby are in good health. “Under Spanish law, having consensual sex [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
Morning Briefing: 3 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Cambridge University, Common Cold, Constitution, Linguistics, Medicine, Microbiology, Spain, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Morning Briefing: 26 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Britain, Deer, New Hampshire, Prostitution, Same-Sex Marriage, Spain, The Union Leader on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spanish prostitutes ordered to wear reflective vests for their own safety [via The Daily Telegraph] The town of Els Alamus in Catalonia has ordered prostitutes to wear yellow fluorescent safety vests or face a €40 fine in order to comply with traffic safety laws. A spokesman for the regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra said: [...]
Morning Briefing: 25 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Alcohol, Crocodiles, Democractic Republic of Congo, Hospitals, Siestas, Spain on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Unemployed security guard tapped as Spain’s top snoozer [via CNN] Unemployed Ecuadoran security guard Pedro Soria Lopez, 62, won the inaugural Spanish National Siesta Championship after napping “for 17 minutes and register a 70-decibel snore while sprawled out on a couch in the middle of a crowded shopping mall.” Lopez and hundreds of other contestants [...]
Morning Briefing: 5 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Donuts, Iraq, Spain on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Doughnuts: In Sour Times, a Sweet Success Story [via Time] The number of donuts served in America increased by 6 percent this spring to approximately 1.8 billion, according to a market research firm. Dunkin’ Donuts attributes its success to a 2009 marketing shift back to the basics. “The franchise had been so focused on its [...]
