Being young, motivated, and well-educated no longer means being on the path for financial independence today. Especially not in Spain, where many ambitious graduates are refused employment on the grounds of being overqualified. The lucky ones might find an unpaid internship or an underpaid, temporary job that scarcely matches their qualifications.

Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007 and people from those two countries can already work without permits, and in any sector, in 17 EU countries. The majority of people who chose to leave Bulgaria and Romania to settle elsewhere in the EU have gone to Spain and Italy where they mainly work in construction, agriculture and jobs that involve caring for the elderly and people with disabilities.

A surreal collision of crime, comedy and horror...'Witching and Bitching' stars...Spanish actors Hugo Silva and Mario Casas as...thieves who run afoul of a group of seriously pissed-off witches after stealing a cache of cursed gold rings.

People are not only made up of what they are, but also of what they are not, what they lack, what they might have been, wished they had been, are uncomfortable with having been...

We forget...that until comparatively recently the world was replete with empires...and the Africa of...the early 1950s...was divided among several empires: British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese...Henning Mankell’s...“A Treacherous Paradise,” is largely set in Mozambique during the early years of the 20th century. But the story starts in Sweden.

The pallbearers are in the job precisely because of the color of their skin, a phenomenon unique to this South American capital [Lima, Peru] that was the regional seat of Spain's colonial empire for more than three centuries...Blacks routinely bear the caskets of ex-presidents, mining magnates and bankers to their tombs in Lima. The...tradition exists neither in provincial Peruvian cities nor in other Latin American countries with significant black populations such as Brazil, Panama and Colombia. It is not a profession chosen by Lima's blacks but is rather thrust upon them by a lack of opportunity...racism remains so deeply ingrained in Peru that many don't consider the practice discriminatory.

the International Olympic Committee will elect the [2020] host city on September 7 2013...a look at the logos of each of the hopefuls...