FOREIGN residents in Spain increased by 2% - a six-figure sum – last year, despite the pandemic and Brexit, and broke the 5.8-million barrier for the first time ever.

SPAIN'S government has outlined where it is considering spending European Union funds to help the economy recover, and which it believes will create up to 800,000 jobs.

LATE deputy president of Spain Alfredo Pérez-Rubalcaba has been awarded the highest distinctions within the National Police and Guardia Civil – two forces he was leader of for five years.

A MEDICAL research foundation based in Galicia has set itself the ambitious goal of creating a cure for Parkinson's Disease at 10% of the cost of similar therapies under development in the USA and about a third of the sum involved in another in the U...

WHERE exactly in Spain you live makes a bigger difference to the weather than you might have thought if you come from a northern European country with a more consistent climate. 

FOR the first time in history, Spain is about to bring a Climate Change Law into effect in a real and determined attempt to halt rising global temperatures, harmful emissions and the death of the world's oceans, among other crucial planetary emergenc...

VARIOUS restrictions in several regions in Spain will be lifted or eased from tomorrow (Saturday) where contagion has slowed down and in light of increased optimism over the vaccine roll-out being accelerated.

TELEVISION presenter Belén Esteban has turned out to be an unexpected admirer of the British Royal family, and says 'if it were not for the pandemic', she would be heading to London to join the crowds bidding farewell to Prince Philip at his funeral...

ONE of Spain's top female tennis players is back in practice barely three months after finishing gruelling cancer treatment and already looking to be at Wimbledon this year.

A LAW dating back 22 years requiring owners of certain dog breeds to register them with the council, pay a tax and keep them muzzled and on a lead could be about to change now that Spain's government is considering a review of the 'dangerous' label.

CANTABRIA-BORN high-jumper Ruth Beitia has been awarded the bronze medal from the London 2012 Olympics nine years after winning it.

ALL OVER the world – at least, on both sides of the Atlantic – monoliths almost identical to those left by aliens invading earth in the cult Stanley Kubrick film 2001: Space Odyssey have been appearing, and disappearing just as fast.

PRESIDENT Pedro Sánchez has announced plans to end the 'State of Alarm' on May 9 this year and has given a deadline of the end of August for 70% of Spain's population to be vaccinated with both doses of the anti-Covid immunisation.

'WINDSWEPT' might be a way of describing one of Spain's oddest-looking beaches, or perhaps 'ploughed' – but the Sakoneta, as well as a photographer's and social media-user's dream, is also a geologist's paradise and a window on the world aeons befo...

THOSE of you who already speak Spanish know this, but those of you who are still learning may not have realised the language has no words of its own beginning with a 'K' or a 'W'.