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Since 2010, more than 10,000 Toyota Corolla cars have been stolen in the U.S. This car tops the list of the 25 most stolen cars in the U.S., together with the Nissan Altima and the Toyota Camry.

 

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That technology can reach almost anywhere is a half-truth. A festival where people dress in white, wearing red bandanas tied around their necks, holding rolled-up newspapers in their hands, doesn’t sound quite like the ideal breeding ground for technology innovation. But, however, technology has made its way deep into the heart of celebration, far deeper than what one could guess at first glance. Now that the txupinazo, the inaugural rocket launch, is just a few hours away, maybe it is the right time to take a look at the techies side of Pamplona and the Sanfermines, the running of the bulls.

After the Senate’s passage of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), Puerto Rico’s debt saga will enter a new chapter: closure. The bill will be signed by President Obama after receiving bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. Collective action from House leaders Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi and the White House at the outset has allowed for a timely and smooth passage, avoiding complications from missed payments due on July 1.

In Spain, the number of registered unemployed people declined by 124,349 in June. The total number of unemployed was 3,767,054, the lowest point since September 2009.

According to the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, this is the second biggest decline in June in history, surpassed only by June 2013, when unemployment fell by 127,248 people.

Spain is the country with the greatest density of bars in the world. There are more than 260,000 in the country – one for every 175 people according to the Nielsen consulting firm. They predict the number of new bars to increase by 1.5% in 2016 after growing 3.6% in 2015.

In the U.K., all-mobile bank startups, requiring only a smartphone or a tablet to access all the features, are the talk of financial services.  Mondo raised £1 million in 96 seconds on Crowdcube in March and Tandem got a U.K. banking licence at the end of 2015.   While it’s still early days for the concept, the quality of the people behind them, the strong funding and the innovative product suggest they’re going to become a permanent feature in Britain’s banking landscape.