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Google has started to take 360 degree photos of the city of Málaga as part of the internet portal’s Street View program.A car covered in cameras has been seen taking the photos which will shortly appear on the internet.Street View was named as the most innovative product of 2007 by Time magazine, and reports are that Google are currently also filming in seven other Spanish cities, Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Galicia, Salamanca and Bilbao.Some...
horrified residents on the Ana Maria 2 urbanisation in Calypso awoke to find a dead body hanging from a tree only a few metres from their front doors. The man, in his 30s, appears to have committed suicide, by hanging himself by the neck from a lower branch. One local resident said: “At 8.30, my wife walked with me to the front gate when I was leaving for work. “We noticed that the Guardia Civil had blocked off the road a little further up the hill....
