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‘Stop the madness’: Outrage in Spain after La Liga agrees to play league match in US

‘Stop the madness’: Outrage in Spain after La Liga agrees to play league match in US

The Royal Spanish Football Federation has approved plans to hold a La Liga match in the United States. This is causing anger among football fans in Spain. Villarreal vs Barcelona – due to be played at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica on 21 December – could become the first European league fixture to be played abroad if Spanish football chiefs …

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Chikungunya: Is a pandemic coming?

Chikungunya outbreak: A pandemic on the way?

Chikungunya is breaking out in China. Photo Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Unsplash) The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an urgent alert last month against the latest outbreak of mosquito-borne Chikungunya. Authorities in China are now scrambling in order to contain the spread of the disease after nearly 8,000 new cases have appeared in less than one …

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Former top anti-drug police officer from Mallorca arrested in money laundering investigation linked to Ibiza Cocaine pipeline

Mallorca’s former top anti-drug cop arrested in money laundering probe linked to Ibiza cocaine pipeline

A FORMER head of the Policia Nacional’s narcotics unit in Mallorca has been arrested as part of a probe into money laundering of drug trafficking cash earned via the so-called Ibiza-Valencia cocaine ‘pipeline’. Inspector Faustino Ngales has been arrested by Guardia Civil in Palma, as part of an operation conducted jointly by the Guardia Civil & Policia Nacional. Nogales shifted …

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