The world’s greatest chef is closing the Spanish restaurant that was his life’s work in order to take what he has learned online
A 10-year-old mother has provoked outrage in Spain, but if she and her family appear happy, why should the rest of us worry?
For 34 years the giant media group has reaped the benefits of Spain’s transition to democracy. But now it faces a radical overhaul.
A Chinese developer has decided to build a replica of the town half-way across the globe in Xiamen Bay, where mainland China looks out towards Taiwan.
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/ 13 November 2009
Mark Thatcher may never be prosecuted in the UK for his role in the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, say senior British law enforcement sources.
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/ 28 October 2008
As cities mushroom at an alarming rate municipal water systems struggle to keep up. Thembelihle Tshabalala investigates.
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/ 12 November 2007
They dug up yet another mass grave in Spain recently, this time near the village of Arandiga, 45 miles from Zaragoza. The bones of eight men, all trade unionists, lay where they had been hurriedly buried more than 70 years ago in the early days of the civil war. They had been shot at the same spot by supporters of General Francisco Franco.
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/ 11 October 2005
It was a scoop of truly global proportions. Just a few weeks after al-Qaeda redefined the world news agenda for a generation of journalists by attacking New York and Washington on September 11 2001, television reporter Taysir Alouni interviewed the planet’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
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/ 19 November 2004
”Sex is the consolation that you are left with when you do not attain love.” And old man finds that his memories are melancholy and the future has become full of terrible excitement, and realises that it is love, not old age, that will kill him. Giles Tremlett looks at Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez’s new novel.
Armed police began patrolling Madrid’s underground rail and bus networks last week as the hunt continued for six members of the radical Islamist group behind the previous Saturday’s joint suicide bombing and the train bombings that killed 190 people last month. Police were on high alert as Islamists threatened an ”inferno” and ”rivers of blood”.