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Three candidate songs to go with Pastora Soler to Eurovision

TVE shall elect with the votes of the public and a jury the song which Pastora Soler will defend in the Eurovision contest, in a special gala in which the Sevillian singer will interpret three themes and will be issued on 3 March.

Pastora Soler has already selected two songs from that list finalist, and the third will choose between two options that the website of the public broadcaster will be available to Internet users between 15 and 20 February, within which each user can vote once, explained this week TVE in a note.

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A signing of luxury for the third season of ‘Downton Abbey’

The actress Shirley MacLaine will appear in the third season of the hit British series Downton Abbey, which will portray Martha Levinson, the mother of Lady Cora Grantham, character played by Elizabeth McGovern.

MacLaine begins shooting this same February, and their participation is "a tribute to the success of the series one and another side of the Atlantic", told the BBC Laura Mackie, responsible for the ITV fiction and Spain issued by Antena 3.

"It is very exciting to have with us an actress such as Shirley MacLaine," he added.

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Rayo Vallecano back before a Zaragoza approaching the descent (1-2)

Rayo Vallecano found what I wanted in the Aragonese capital, a breath away from danger and step positions gave a blow (1-2) to a Real Zaragoza which continues off the few lights that lit his path and is inexorably destined to decline. Although still missing sixteen days to finish the competition, the Aragonese team poorly reinforced in the winter market, has very few resources to at least do hold some hope his followers to fight not to fall into the pit of the second division. The momentum of the need to win him lasted the Aragonese team...

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Valerian Allés Minorca and Nuchar Eurochamp Murillo, seeded of the Copa de la Reina

There were no surprises and both Valerian Allés Menorca volleyball as Nuchar Eurochamp Murillo secured their first two positions at the end of the first round of the women's League and got the pass to the semifinals of the Queen's Cup to be held in Salou next month of March.

The Balearic Islands, current champions ligueras, obtained the triumph in Tenerife, before the bottom slope stone Santa Cruz and maintain one day the lead. More troubles for achieving victory had Nuchar Eurochamp Murillo. The La Rioja controlled the pace of the...

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Young South Koreans have it increasingly clear: “Do not want to join the North”

The dream of reunification, common aspiration of the two Koreas since the cold war split them 60 years ago, now fades in Korea in the South, where new generations are increasingly reluctant to integrate with its Communist northern neighbours.

"It may sound selfish, but I don't want to see reunification, because it would cost a lot of money and reduce our economic status to balance with the of the North Koreans," says journalist Kwon Ji - a, 29-year-old.

The opinion of Kwon is increasingly common among young South Koreans, while...

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Valentine, the perfect hook for spam

New year was used en masse by the creators of spam as bait for their links to malicious software, according to the computer security company Symantec in its report of January, pointing to other dates such as Valentine's day or the Olympic Games as next pretexts of deception.

More than 10,000 domains which included references to the new year in its name but in fact sent to malicious sites, were recorded by Symantec, pointing to that cybercriminals used this ploy to encourage recipients of links to click on them thinking that they will...

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Atletico and Valencia tie everything in the Calderón (0-0)

Atlético de Madrid and Valencia tied scoreless in a match of maximum equality in the stadium Vicente Calderón, scene of a duel of high intensity and tension, which lacked football and times and gave a point to each of these aspiring Champions League places. That outcome interrupted comeback the whole rojiblanco towards the top four of the classification, although it remains unbeaten and no goals against with the Argentine Diego Simeone, and clinched the strength of the Valencia in third position, but added one game to its drought of WINS...

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The London theatres are lacking to tremble in 2012 despite beating fundraising records

The theatres of the West End, the circuit of large venues in the Centre of the British capital, is known as stirred in 2011 collection at the box office record for eighth year in a row, with 528,3 million pounds (631,4 million euros, or 833,9 million euros).

The data made public this week by the society of London Theatre (SOLT, its acronym in English) collected balance in 52 major theatres of London box office and show that in 2011 ticket sales rose 3.1% over 2010.

This organization attributed the growth in sales to the success...

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