Spain's economic growth accelerates

Spain's economic growth accelerated in the first quarter, provisional official data showed Thursday, delivering a possible boost to the government in an election year even though unemployment remains high. It was the seventh consecutive quarter of economic growth and the biggest expansion since the fourth quarter of 2007, before Spain's slump into recession began. Spain expanded by 1.4 percent in 2014 -- its first full-year of growth since a property bubble burst in 2008, throwing mill