The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was named after Russian scientist and activist, Andrei Sakharov, and was established by the European Parliament in 1988 to recognize individuals and groups whose lives have stood for free thought and the defense of human rights. This segment focuses on the 2011 awards, where five Arab activists were honored.

The European Parliament's decision not to extend the fishing agreement with Morocco comes as a hard blow to the Andalusian fishing industry, whose workers are left jobless for months and demand compensation from the European Union.

The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) is a regulation which aids Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to establish themselves more quickly, simply and with less capital than was previously possible.

As robberies increase in Spanish stores along with the worsening of the economic crisis, shopkeepers are forced to reconsider their security systems.

Seville's Nervión Plaza Shopping Center employs a total of seventy-two cameras recording twenty-four hours a day in order to, among other things, assist in theft prevention.

Video surveillance systems are becoming an increasingly common way to try to thwart and/or catch shoplifters.

Who steals from clothing stores and why? Find out who is responsible for most of the thefts and at what point shoplifting is considered more than just a minor offense.

Watch what happens when mall security catches a thief red-handed.

Twenty twenty-two has been a disastrous year for the environment of many countries including Spain due to a staggering number of fires caused by both natural and manmade causes.

Have you ever noticed the media's seemingly incessant focus on a particular topic, only to be promptly eclipsed by something entirely different? Let's hear Soledad's opinion about this constant bombardment of information and its capacity to affect us.

Take a virtual tour of several of Spain's most fascinating natural parks.

Welcome to this series about Spanish news vocabulary in which Carlos will teach us frequently-used words related to international relations and politics, finance, economics, the environment and more. The focus of this first episode will be international relations and politics.

In part two of this series, Carlos focuses on several terms related to international policy, more specifically conflicts and other problems in the international arena.

In the third part of this series, Carlos reviews many of the oft-heard news terms that we have learned thus far in the context of two texts similar to those we might hear on a news report.

Carlos introduces us to several business and finance-related terms. Let's learn their meanings as well as hearing them in plenty of example sentences that are similar to those we might hear or see in the written or spoken news.