Messi urges Barça to halt Atletico title party

Four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has urged his Barcelona teammates not to miss out on the second chance they have been gifted to retain their La Liga title.

Barca seemed all but out of the title race after conceding a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 at home to relegation-threatened Getafe last weekend.

However, leaders Atletico Madrid subsequently lost 2-0 away at Levante, whilst Real Madrid have drawn twice against Valencia and Valladolid in the past week to leave them in third place, four points adrift of Atletico with just two games to play.

Barcelona remain three points adrift of Diego Simeone's men themselves, but will win the league if they win their two remaining games away to Elche on Sunday and then when Atletico visit the Camp Nou on the final weekend of the season.

"We are in a better position today than we were a few weeks ago," said Messi.

Comment:

This year La Liga is really interesting because there are just two matches left and three teams can still win it. It has incredible merit what Atletico de Madrid is doing because they have less money than Madrid and Barcelona but they are leading La Liga.

The team that I want that wins is Barcelona but the one that deserves it most is Atletico. So just wait and see what happens

Five teens killed in tragic minibus crash

Five teenagers from a youth football team were killed when their minibus crashed into a mechanical digger on a country road in southern Spain on Thursday night, officials said.

Spanish newspapers later reported it was in fact five minors who had died in the crash.

Extremadura emergency services said on Twitter that overall 13 people were injured of which 11 were taken to hospital. The Civil Guard source said that at least six of those were "seriously" hurt.

Various Spanish media reports put the ages of the minors killed at between 12 and 15 years.

Comment:

It's sad to see that young people dies in an accident of this type. It's difficuld to understand how can happen a accident of to vehicles of so a big size. I hope that the people that were injured and is in the hospital improves their health and gets back home as early as possible.

I wish much support to the families of the dead boys.

Here you have got a video of the accident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdMJBoyMBg#t=29

Smog-hit Madrid to wage war on cars

"Madrid is for people, not for vehicles," says the document, in which "positive discrimination" schemes to favour pedestrians, plus the use of bicycles and public transport are detailed.

Across the whole of the Spanish capital, the plan is to reduce traffic by eight percent by 2020, halve the numbers killed in traffic (32 last year) and help the city to comply with European pollution limits, standards which it is currently failing to meet.

The dark pall of smog hanging over Madrid is so familiar to locals that it is known as the city's "beret".

Comment:

The smog in the big cities is a problem. It is not good for the health of the persons of the city and it don't gives a good image to other counties.

I think that it is a good idea to try to reduce the numbers of vehicles in Madrid. It would be easier if people uses more public transports, so they don't must take their car. The problem of the electric vehicles is that the aren't so clean like they want us to make believe. How is the electricy of this cars made? There is the fist problem because most of elecricity is also created creating contamination, so we have got a big problem.

Give banana-thrower his job back: Barça star

Barcelona's Brazilian defender Dani Alves has called for the banana-thrower who sparked a global anti-racist uproar to be given his job back after he reportedly lost it due to the incident.

Alves won praise after he took a bite from the banana and got on with the game, drawing worldwide attention to racist incidents in Spanish football.

“It is not something that has just happened now. I don't want to generalise, to say Spain is racist. I am saying there is racism in Spain. I have been here 11 years and in those 11 years it's been the same, people call me a monkey,” he said.

Comment: 

It  is bad to see that there is so much racism in Spain. It's important that people react againt it because if not it will keep exsisting. I hope that it change some it gives a bad image of Spain to the world. The people that I know is not rasist so I can't say that here they are racists.

Ukraine rebels hold referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27360146

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's two eastern regions are holding "self-rule" referendums - a move condemned by Ukraine's government and the West.

Self-proclaimed leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to postpone it.

Ukraine condemned the vote as a "criminal farce" organised by Russia.

An official in Kiev, national security chief Andriy Parubiy, said: "We do not consider there to have been a referendum."

Comment:

In my opinion, they might let the civilians express their thought. I think this is a violation of the human right that is about the freedom of speech. In the current time shouldn't be situations like this one in Ukraine. Normal modern goverments let their civilization express their opinio and decide what they want to do.

In conclusion, both countries, Russia and Ukraine, should speak to each other to fins a peaceful solution.

Apple 'in talks' to buy Beats for $3.2bn

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27336863

Technology giant Apple is in talks to buy headphone maker and music-streaming service provider Beats Electronics, according to various media reports.

This would cost 3.2bn Dollars. If they finally buy it will be the biggest acquisition ever of Apple.

Comment: it would be a really big enrichment for this company. They after might have more benefits than now. It looks like that in the future there will be just one company because the big companies just buy the smaller ones. With this actions the companies that buy the other ones have more capacity to offer new products.

Federer Wins 6th Dubai Championships Title

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Roger Federer won a record sixth Dubai Championships — and 78th career title — by beating Tomas Berdych 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final on Saturday.

Federer, who maintains a home in Dubai, delighted a packed stadium of fans who seemed biased for the Swiss in back-to-back wins over Novak Djokovic in the semifinals and Berdych.

In the first set, the fourth-seeded Federer's forehand looked shaky and he appeared a step slow.

In the second set, there was another early exchange of breaks. From 4-4, Federer won the final eight points of the set to even the set score.

Finally, Berdych was able to save two Federer match points on his own serve in the eighth game. But the Czech couldn't stop Federer from serving out. On Federer's third match point at 40-15 in the ninth game, Berdych netted a backhand return.

Comment; It's incredible!! Federer is 33 years old and still on the top of his fisical form. In this tournament he won against Djokovic a player that is at the 2nd place of the world ranking. I admire Federer for what he is doing and winning. 

He is a great person and also a great player, both things together makes him so much tournaments.

Fast broadband now considered vital by increasing numbers of homebuyers

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/02/fast-broadband-vital-to-homebuyers

Houses without broadband could be worth as much as 20% less than comparable properties with a good connection, according to experts who say superfast speeds are increasingly important to prospective homebuyers.

That is caused because much people works from home amd need really fast communication.

Comment: Well, that reflects how internet and other connections are affecting not only on our lives also on the value of a house. This is happening because much people work very much from home and so they need fast connection. In my opinion, it is the normal way that all is going with the increasing tecnologies and connections.

Knife attack at train station leaves dozens dead in south-west China

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/01/knife-attack-kunming-train-station-yunnan-province-china

A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in south-western China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 people dead and another 109 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.

Comment; In my vision it's not normal that people in our society is prepaared to do thinks like this one in China. I'ts frightening to know that people with so big psicologic problems are on the streets and you could knew one like you partner at the work. In conclusion on this action I will be more cautios with wich type of persons I have relations.

Comment is free Most Russians believe the Crimea is theirs – Putin has acted on his belief

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/01/russia-invasion-ukraine-crimea

The news talks about the revolution of Ukraine in the last view month and how Russia with Putin react on this actions. Putin want to have the control about the region of Crimea because Russia have a really important military base.

Comment; I am really afraid of what can happen there because Europa wan t to get into the trouble. I hpe it will have a easy solution withous weapons and any death people. Europe, in my vision, don't need to get into this problem because it doesn't affects them at all.