Here are FOUR historical byways which make the first week of December significant Hernán Cortés Though his achievements ...

Some of the most infamous scams in history have been Ponzi schemes, but before Bernie Madoff (or Bitcoin), there was Charles Ponzi himself. The con he built was so successful that his last name became ...

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A lottery winner who bagged a whopping 6.5 million Euro (around £5.4m) lottery jackpot claims he didn't receive a single penny of his windfall due to poor advice from a bank official. Francisco ...

In a flash, Vírgula bolts from a box and bounds down the hill to freedom. With her distinctive pointy ears and dotted brown coat, the Iberian lynx cuts a dashing sight. The one-year-old female was ...

Just after the University of Barcelona closed for the Easter vacation last week, rioting students broke into the rector’s office, began to pummel the beadle. “Gentlemen, Caballeros!” cried the rector.

ESP was the ISO 4217 currency code for the Spanish Peseta. The Spanish Peseta was the official currency of Spain until 2002. The transition to the Euro marked the end of the Peseta as legal tender.

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Anabel Segura was just 22 when she was kidnapped by Emilio Muñoz Guadix and Candido Ortiz Añón in 1993. For nearly three years, an entire country was kept in suspense as police searched for the ...