Madrid enforces skinny models ban
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Spain's top fashion show kicked off on   Monday after causing a storm with its ban on skinny models and   one well-known designer said he had to replace all the girls in   his catwalk line-up.
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The Madrid council has condemned the  racist behavior of fans that marred Wednesday's friendly  between Spain and England and said that the events should not  be allowed to harm the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
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The man who cleans backstage at New York's fashion week says there is a problem with the claims of stick-thin models that they are naturally skinny.
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ZURICH: The Spanish Football Federation was fined 100,000 Swiss francs ($NZ123,000) on Tuesday for the racist chanting of its fans at the friendly match against England in Madrid in November.
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Copies seized, website closed A Spanish judge last Friday ordered the confiscation of all copies of satirical magazine El Jueves whose front cover carried a cartoon of Crown Prince Felipe administering his wife Princess Letizia a right royal rogering while saying: "Do you realise that if you get pregnant . . . It will be the closest thing to work Iâve done in my life?ââ¦
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Spain allows transsexuals who have not had a sex change to alter their gender on their official documents.
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The Spanish Parliament bans smoking in its corridors ahead of government plans for a smoking ban in all working places.
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Some women's advocacy groups are complaining about a magazine spread in which eight female ministers in the Spanish government -- which has vowed to fight sexual discrimination -- pose like fashion models in ...
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy   over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,   fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less   than two weeks away.
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Five models were declared too thin for the catwalk at this week's international designer show in Madrid, a doctor in charge of vetting them said on Sunday.
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While everyone worries about thin female models, designers embrace the skinny man.
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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell calls for underweight models to be banned from catwalks at London fashion week.
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Fearing that young models strutting down the runways in New York City are too skinny, a state lawmaker proposes that weight standards be established for the fashion and entertainment industries.
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy  over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,  fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less  than two weeks away.
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MADRID, Nov 10 (IPS) - Activists, teachers and politicians with the ruling   socialist party in Spain are worried about a decision by  authorities in  schools in the provinces of Madrid and Valencia,  which are governed by the  centre-right Popular Party, to bar  undocumented immigrants who have  completed the 10 years of  compulsory schooling from continuing their  education.
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Valencia&#39;s Ruben Baraja can play against Real Madrid on Saturday after the Spanish Sports Disciplinary Committee (CEDD) overturned a one match ban.
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VALENCIA midfielder Miguel Angel Angulo has been banned for seven matches by UEFA following incidents in their Champions&#39; League match with Werder Bremen last week.