“I repeat that the terrorist group Eta’s only fate is to give up its arms and disband.”Yesterday’s attack follows a bomb blast at the home of a local businessman in the Basque coastal town of Zarautz on Sunday Another device was deactivated. It is undoubtedly too early to tell whether Peter Maltz’s student interpretation of Rubens’ masterpieceThe Massacre of the Innocents will ever make £49.5m as the old master did at auction two years ago.
But it was clearly grabbing the spotlight yesterday as Maltz and 18 fellow sculpture students at the Royal College of Art, London, put the finishing touches to their final year show. It is further proof that the organisation, though weakened by hundreds of detentions and demoralisation in the ranks, remains operative even outside the Basque territory.The explosive-packed rucksack was left in a Renault stolen the night before. A week earlier, four bombs went off across the Basque country’s Guipuzcoa region, apparently directed against Basque businessmen who failed to pay Eta’s extortion money, or “revolutionary tax”.The Madrid attack was Eta’s first in the capital since February, when a car bomb wrecked the headquarters of a French computer company, hours before King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia inaugurated an art show near by. It was the latest in a string of blasts that have greeted controversial proposals by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist government to open contacts with the separatists if Eta renounces violence.Parliament in Madrid approved the Prime Minister’s high-risk initiative last week, in the teeth of fierce opposition from the conservative Popular Party (PP) whose spokesman, Angel Acebes, reiterated yesterday its desire to see Eta crushed.A caller telephoned the radical Basque newspaper Gara to warn that a bomb would explode in the area in 45 minutes. A rucksack packed with explosives blew up in a van in an industrial zone of north-east Madrid, 45 minutes after a Basque newspaper received a warning in the name of Eta separatists.
The powerful bomb yesterday morning damaged buildings and vehicles, and slightly injured 52 people. If a vote is called, Mr Barroso is certain to win.Meanwhile, Mr P?ring reacted furiously to claims by Mr Helmer that MEPs were threatened in an effort to force them to withdraw backing for the motion.

However, the cruise was also before Mr Barroso took up his post and the state aid decision was taken by the previous European Commission.”As to the Commission’s decision to authorise state aid in Greece, it was taken by the previous Commission at a time when I had no responsibility,” Mr Barroso said.All the parliament’s big groups rallied round the Commission president, partly because the motion was seen as an attempt by British Eurosceptics to embarrass Mr Barroso on the eve of the French referendum. There was no link between the cruise and my work.”He went on the cruise shortly before a Latsis company received European Commission approval for state aid worth €10m (£6.8m). He added: “We never dealt with any commercial subjects at all. Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has survived an embarrassing no-confidence motion in the European Parliament as a row over his free holiday with a Greek shipping tycoon provoked deep ructions among Conservatives MEPs. The 400-year-old work will be a highlight of the National Gallery’s show on Rubens this autumn.. The rebirth of the Dome as a vast entertainment venue got under way yesterday as plans were announced to give Britain’s most unloved tent an ice rink, restaurants and a new name.

The £500m redevelopment of the structure, owned by the American magnate Philip Anschutz and his conglomerate, Anschutz Entertainment Group, will see a series of self-contained facilities built inside the dome, including a 23,000-seat performance area that will host up to 150 music, entertainment and sports events a year.By the expected opening in April 2007 the building will also feature 10 restaurants, eight bars, a museum of British music, a street of jazz and blues venues and a 10-screen cinema.. His piece is entitled Lying in the bath thinking of the massacre of the innocents and will be open for public view from today. Anyone wishing to compare Maltz with Rubens should simply cross the capital to the National Gallery where it is currently on display.David Thomson, billionaire chairman of the Thomson newspaper empire, was the purchaser in 2002 and has loaned it to the British gallery for three years before it goes to be housed at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada. The original is the world’s most expensive painting.

The new version is made from 300 white tiles, 200 bars of soap, 80kg (175lb) of grout, 15 bath towels and two large mirrors. The sculptures in the show, which is the first of its kind at Kew, were designed to blend in with the flowerbeds, listed architecture and Georgian perspectives of the park’s 300-acre site. This could give online music stores and record companies access to consumers without using costly mobile networks at all.Record labels £1.29The record labels may have been slow to embrace digital music, but now they’re here to stay. Although their overall income from ringtones is small, realtones are by far their most profitable channel – a 15-second ringtone clip can cost up to £4.50, while a CD-quality download of the track from a music store such as iTunes costs just 79p Source: Generator Solutions Ltd. Whether a realtone is recorded by a sound-alike band as a cover version or snipped from the genuine chart-topping single, they’ll always receive their share. The only problem they have is trusting content aggregators and mobile operators to report accurately how many virtual ringtones have been sold.Content aggregators and distributors 64pThe past five years have been heaven for these hi-tech entrepreneurs. Spotting the opportunity presented by hi-tech mobile phones, they’ve driven ringtone sales by targeting the younger, mobile generation.