Blood–sucking insect is used in Spain to prepare crimson color from the acid that the insect produced in order to protect themselves from killers.

Spain’s Canary Islands is popular for conserving the insect to produce the color. The cochineal is mainly used by the industries that manufacture food products and cosmetics, reveals Juan Cazorla. Juan Cazorla is a biologists working on triggering the cultivation of the insect in the island of Lanzarote.

Authorities are expected to make an announcement about the badger culling in England, with in next few days. It is anticipated that the awaited verdict will be to sanction a licensed cull and will be organised and paid for group of farmers in TB areas.

Farming Minister, Jim Paice, has addressed the issue wisely and assured that the decision would be a collective cabinet decision.

According to recent reports coming out of Poplar, in East London, the Nigerian mother who cost the National Health Service £200,000 by giving birth to her quintuplets in the United Kingdom last April is now working illegally as an Avon sales representative.

Bimbo Ayelabola, also widely known as the "health tourist mum", managed to get a visitor's visa for the United Kingdom a few days after she discovered that she was pregnant while at home in Nigeria.

Spain's Criteria Caixacorp declared that it has decided to launch a bond issue of 1 billion euros ($1.49 billion).

However, the group failed to offer further details.

Criteria is the investment division of Spain's biggest savings bank La Caixa.

In a declaration to Spain's stock market regulator, Criteria stated that its top management would decide the conditions of the issue and that it was booking the right to not carry through with the deal if market conditions were not favourable.

Spain has recorded a sudden rise in the number of A/H1N1 flue cases in the week between October 25 and October 31.

As per the facts issued by the Spanish Health Ministry, around 126,999 new cases of A/H1N1 flu have been recorded during the last week as compared with 80,981 new flu cases in a week earlier.

The ratio of newly affected H1N1 cases last week stood at 292.45 in every 100,000 inhabitants, whereas it was just 182.45 during the last week.