Transportation minister Freddy Numberi and Maritime Affairs and Fisheries minister Fadel Muhammad will receive fishing training ship "Medidihang-03" from Spain`s Asturias Gondan Shipyard in the coming days.

According to sources, both the ministers will receive the ship when they will start their Spain tour starting from February 21-23.

While talking to reporters, the Minister of Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez announced that the government would not lift the tobacco ban in the country as some leader of the Popular Party proposed.

Moreover, the minister told media that his department is working to study the consequences of using tobacco, resulting around 55,000 deaths every year and between 1,500 and 3,000 indirectly and to secure the health of others, with a smoke-free environment.

According to the recent news by Spanish national radio, the country is sending 40 disaster relief experts to Haiti to find out the thousands missing in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in the huge earthquake.

Moreover, it said that the plane will leave overnight from military base outside Madrid for Port-au-Prince carrying 40 police, firefighters as well as members of the emergency services along with trained dogs.

They all will be followed by Secretary of State for Latin America Juan Pablo de Laiglesia and foreign ministry officials.

According to the reports, Clara Sanchez has bagged the oldest prize for literature in Spain.

Moreover, the Nadal prize was first awarded back in 1944 by the Destino publishing house situated in Barcelona, and the tradition has continued till date. Sanchez has been granted 18000 euro as the reward.

The 54-year-old Sanchez is a famous editorialist and novelist and has acquired the prize for her well-known novel “Lo que esconde tu nombre” which means “What your name hides”.

The Foreign Ministers of Spain, France, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan assembled to try and get the bogged-down Mediterranean Union back on the right track.

The main motive of the conference and of the dinner afterwards was to look for a consensus on the election of a secretary general with a vision to hold the union’s second summit, planned for June 7 in Barcelona, said an official close to the Spanish department.

According to the recent reports, the network has smuggled around 20 kilos of the drug into Spain every month.

The Civil Guard exposed an international drugs network that used couriers to smuggle regular deliveries into the country via Madrid’s Barajas Airport on flights from the Dominican Republic.

While talking to reporters, the civil guard said that huge number of airport workers are amongst to involve with the suspects who have been taken into police remand.

A huge protest took place at Madrid’s Barajas airport between Air Comet passengers who remain stranded in the terminal because of the airline’s suddenly going out of business.

Passengers from Argentina and Colombia, who were due to fly home for Christmas few days ago, have been told that they may be able to leave the country on the eve of New Year.

But if they aren’t ready to wait till the time announced by the authorities, they have to purchase new air tickets.

Spain, France and the United Kingdom are at the risk of losing their credit rating because of their skyrocketing public debt.

According to the Fitch rating agency, the three nations have to take more secure measures to minimize their public debt otherwise it will reduce their sovereign ratings from AAA, the highest rating available.

Moreover, the agency has predicted that if the three nations public debt keeps increasing at the same speed, it will amount to more than 90% of their GDP by 2011. By contrast, Korea’s public debt stands at 35% of GDP.

United Kingdom architect teamed up with Spanish practice to design Campus Palmas Atlas Business Park, which is mainly adapted for extreme summer conditions.

Richard Rogers has introduced its business park for the Abengoa Group in Seville.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners joined hands with Spanish practice Vidal y Asociados arquitectos to establish a business park especially suited to the summer time conditions in the south of the country.

Thousands of the Spanish citizens have taken to the lanes of Madrid to protest against the unemployment in the country.

The rally was organized by Spain’s largest workers unions in order to oppose to the nation’s record-high jobless figure. The protestors were demanding job security as well as hike in wages.

The recent global economic recession period has affected the Spanish market badly, especially its industrial and constructional sector.