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Because then you’ll also remember that the competition question was ‘How badly do you want to go to the Canary Islands?’ We were inundated with entries – some funny, some heartbreaking, some that bizarrely started with ‘I have never read your website…’...
Tags: Canary Islands, Los Angeles, Human Interest
There are more than 260 species of sea slugs in the Canaries and researchers believe that two of the recently discovered species are "very peculiar", according to Leopoldo Moro of the Canary Islands government's Biodiversity Service. One of them is a...
Tags: sea slugs, Cuba Santa Cruz, Spain, Leopoldo Moro, emits light, Cuba, Havana, Canary Islands, Elysia, Lanzarote, Silbo Gomero language, La Gomera, Placobranchidae, Akera, Akeridae, Environment
The Canaries President has promised 8,500 Euro for every home affected Paulino Rivero, President of the Canary Islands, was in the Valle de La Orotava on Wednesday, the area on the north of Tenerife which was hit by severe flooding earlier this week.
Tags: La Opinión de Tenerife, Spain, Los Realejos, La Orotava, Valle de la Orotava, Orotava Valley, Taoro, Tenerife, Tourism in Spain, Canary Islands, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment
Surely the big attractions of the Canary Islands are the man-made resorts?...Man might have had a hand in harnessing the natural assets of these sunny islands but it’s Mother Nature who is responsible for the Canaries’ true wonders, shaping and shading...
Tags: Canary Islands, Cuba, La Palma, Hospitality Recreation, Lanzarote, Tourism in Spain, Maspalomas, Teide, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Fissure vents
In that moment of impeded vision when the bow dipped into the Atlantic swell, spraying our boat with tepid seawater, I fleetingly wondered what it must have felt like for Christopher Columbus. Leaving behind the last sanctuary of dry land, his voyage...
Tags: Canary Islands, The Canaries
Spaniards honored 154 people who died a year ago Thursday in the crash of a Spanair jetliner in Madrid, praying for them at Mass and laying flowers at a plaque bearing a pledge they will never be forgotten. The private service was held in a white tent...
Tags: Canary Islands, Madrid Barajas, Spain, Spanair Boeing
A forest fire is still raging out of control on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The blaze has meant up to 4,000 people, including tourists, have had to be evacuated, with some residents saved just minutes before the fire reached...
Tags: Island of La Palma, forest fire, Canary Islands, Spanish, Spain
The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles off the coast of north west Africa near the Canary Islands on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration...
Tags: Atlantis, north west Africa, Google Ocean, Google Earth, lost city, Canary Islands, Daily Telegraph
One more of the would-be illegal immigrants from north Africa was still missing following the accident late on Sunday off Arrecife, the main city on the tourist island of Lanzarote, a spokeswoman for the local Salvamento Maritimo rescue service said.
Six people have been arrested in Barcelona on suspicion of tax fraud and are to be investigated for financing 'terrorist' activities, Spanish police have said. The men, all of Pakistani origin, were said to have been arrested on the orders of Baltazar...
Tags: Barcelona, Spain, Baltazar Garzon, terrorist judge, tax fraud, Madrid, Canary Islands