Shrugging aside his disappointment, Contador showed his class by winning both the Tour of Spain and Giro d'Italia, joining a select band of riders to win all three major stage races.

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Russia finished second behind Spain on six points in Group D, three ahead of Sweden.

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As Mobile World Congress -- the planet's largest mobile-tech show -- prepares to kick off in Barcelona, Spain, we thought we'd offer this gallery to remind us all how far we have come.

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He'd like to leave Spain.

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Arriving in Spain from Brooklyn in March 1937, he'd served first as a medic, then as a machine-gunner in the Washington Battalion.

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"We are using SmartyPig to save up for a trip to Spain for my husband's 30th birthday, " Angela D'Arcy said.

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Although researchers could find no link between the crash in cave bear populations and other factors, the event did "coincide with the start of human expansion, " commented co-author Dr Aurora Grandal-D'Anglade of the University of Coruna, Spain.

BBC: Early human 'squatters' drove cave bears to extinction

It was Farrar's fourth stage win in one of the three major Tours, after two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia this year and one in the Tour of Spain in 2009.

BBC: Mark Cavendish beaten again in Tour of Spain

Not when Mickey D successfully sells its Big Spicy Paneer Wrap in India nor its Gazpacho soup in Spain in the summertime.

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