Catalonia’s latest election brings increased social polarity that could spread beyond politics, writes Giles Tremlett.
Age-old tensions have resurfaces as the country buckles under harsh austerity measures.
A rise in Spanish unemployment has added to the woes of PM Mariano Rajoy as he tried to fight off a bailout of the eurozone’s fourth largest economy.
Despite the bank bailout, investors believe that the country itself might still have to go begging, writes Giles Tremlett.
A former senior executive at Bankia is to receive a 14-million payoff in a move that will cause controversy beyond the country’s borders.
Far from presenting you with a fait accompli, the telomere test’s value may lie in extending your life.
As chef Ferran Adrià closes the doors of Spain’s feted El Bulli for the last time, Giles Tremlett in Roses, Catalonia, traces its intriguing history.
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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/ 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.
The orange groves of Valencia could soon be powering Spanish cars as a new technology is developed to turn the fruit’s thick, shiny peel into biofuel. In a region with 190 000ha covered with oranges and lemons, citric-powered cars could reduce pollution while using a readily available source of energy, according to local officials.
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/ 27 November 2006
A video designed to highlight rising crime under Spain’s Socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has backfired on the opposition People’s Party after television news pictures used in it turned out to have been filmed abroad or before Zapatero came to power.
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/ 18 October 2002
A literary storm has broken in Spain, where Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been accused of regularly using ghostwriters for most of his career, writes Giles Tremlett.
The last time Mercy Stewin saw her native Africa she was standing knee-deep in water, keeping herself steady against the waves as they rolled up the beach, where the Sahara desert meets the ocean. Nineteen other people from all over Africa were packed into the boat.
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/ 13 December 2001
In 1940 two suspected FBI agents turned up in southern Spain looking for a birth certificate. Could this document have held a secret Walt Disney was desperate to hide? As the Disney corporation celebrates its founder’s centenary, Giles Tremlett visits the town that believes Uncle Walt is one of the family.