The photo had stayed on El Pais's website for around half an hour, it said.
Mariano Rajoy's name is written a number of times in the documents published by El Pais.
The stereotype of the mad scientist is never entirely absent from Mr Pais's portraits.
The Venezuelan government called the photo "grotesque", and said it would take legal action against El Pais.
In September, voters then chose assembly members, giving 80 of the 130 seats to his Alianza Pais party.
"It's very painful for me, but there was no other way out, " she told the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
In a recent interview with Spain's El Pais newspaper, the author discussed his plans to write a new book.
The cable, published by Spanish newspaper El Pais, said Correa was aware of corruption by the police high command.
The daily El Pais published photos said to be of suspect party ledgers.
He completely rejected a report in Sunday's El Pais newspaper claiming he is lobbying for votes for Mr. Zelaya's return.
He is due to be questioned by investigating judge Pablo Ruz about the Gurtel case on 25 February, El Pais reports.
"I think we are all to blame, also the media, " said Cayetano Ros, who covered the Giner attack for El Pais newspaper.
Amo mi Patria y si hay elementos de corrupcion en Mexico....pero tambien mejoran con cada nueva generacion... como cualquier otro pais latinoamericano.
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The central claim is that documents published by El Pais are a list of undeclared cash "donations" linked to senior PP members.
Spain's El Pais newspaper reports the figure could be closer to 400, 000.
The prelate said that although there were indications that the FARC was behind the killings, "we are not certain of that, " El Pais said.
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Spain's El Pais newspaper has apologised after publishing a photo of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez which it said has turned out to be a fake.
Will the revelations drive enough readers to the New York Times, El Pais, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and The Guardian to justify the expense?
Their friends in the press, especially in the Prisa group which owns, among other organs, Spain's best-selling newspaper, El Pais, are in full investigative cry.
In 1918, Sidonio Pais, the President of Portugal, was fatally wounded as he entered Rossio station in Lisbon only weeks after a previous unsuccessful assassination attempt.
An opinion poll released by El Pais showed support for the Popular Party dropped about 6 percentage points to 24% since the Barcenas notebooks were released.
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That profile would certainly square with a report in Honduras' El Pais newsapaper on Sunday that Shannon is now lobbying legislators there to allow Zelaya's restoration.
If Mr Carromero is found guilty, the Spanish government is hoping that he will be allowed to serve out his sentence in Spain, El Pais newspaper reported.
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Likewise, a member of Correa's party, Alianza Pais, is quoted as saying that lawyers from the executive branch would assist the judge in writing the final verdict.
El Pais has withdrawn the photo from its website and collected copies of the first edition of Thursday's paper from newsstands, the BBC's Tom Burridge reports from Madrid.
"Even though the animals were on different continents, with the resulting noisy transmission and signal delays, they could still communicate, " said Miguel Pais-Vieira, another member of the team.
The scandal, uncovered by Spanish daily El Pais over the past few days, bulldozed market confidence in Madrid, sending the stock market down nearly 4% on Monday.
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El Pais, Spain's most widely circulated newspaper, cited unnamed anti-terror sources Wednesday as saying they believe there is a chance -- albeit small -- that Islamic terrorists would strike in Spain.
He pointed to a Wednesday article in El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, that quoted a Chinese Embassy spokesman in Spain as saying "we don't interpret this gesture as offensive" or racist.
He also said he had befriended the two Chechen suspects in Turkey and that they had come to Spain for the purpose of seeking asylum, the Spanish El Pais newspaper reports.
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