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Artur Mas must unify Catalans even as they argue about their role as Spaniards.

Catalan president Mas’s electoral win stalls statehood

Catalonia’s latest election brings increased social polarity that could spread beyond politics, writes Giles Tremlett.

Desperate Spanish unable to cope

Age-old tensions have resurfaces as the country buckles under harsh austerity measures.

Increased unemployment benefit payments are already putting pressure on Spain’s Rajoy’s budget.

More pain in Spain as jobless increase

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.

The pain of reining in Spain

Despite the bank bailout, investors believe that the country itself might still have to go begging, writes Giles Tremlett.

With no big policy meetings and few major data releases scheduled this week

Bankia executives jump ship with millions in payouts

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.

So how long will you live?

So how long will you live?

Far from presenting you with a fait accompli, the telomere test’s value may lie in extending your life.

How wartime romance gave birth to the world’s best restaurant

How wartime romance gave birth to the world’s best restaurant

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.

From El Bulli to eBulli

From El Bulli to eBulli

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

Case gives ‘childbirth’ new meaning

Case gives ‘childbirth’ new meaning

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?

Spanish media group struggles to survive

For 34 years the giant media group has reaped the benefits of Spain’s transition to democracy. But now it faces a radical overhaul.

Chinese ‘forgery’ goes to the heart of Dali

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.

Thatcher escapes prosecution for failed Equatorial Guinea coup

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.

Digging up a fascist past

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…

New juice for Spanish cars

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…

Spanish crime video backfires

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…

Nobel cheat

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…

A new route to asylum

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…

The Spanish connection

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…