THIS YEAR'S Travellers' Choice Awards for TripAdvisor's top 25 beaches worldwide have just been revealed – and, unsurprisingly, Spain is in it.

BARCELONA football club has just signed one of the biggest and most lucrative sponsorship deals in the history of the sport – and which will involve renaming its home stadium.

LEGENDARY rockers who have been rolling since before most of the working aged population was even born are still at it – and they'll be live in Spain for one night only this spring.

YOU CAN stop worrying about a sunflower-oil shortage and the knock-on effect of biscuits, cakes and the like disappearing from the shelves – national supermarket chain Mercadona's founder and CEO Juan Roig has assured there are 'no supply problems'...

A JEWELLER has revealed how the rock-sized emeralds General Franco gave his granddaughter for her wedding were 'just painted glass stuck together with egg-white'.

AN INTERNATIONAL school set to open this coming autumn term in Estepona will be the first centre on the Costa del Sol that offers the US curriculum, according to local education authorities.

A BRAND-NEW health centre should be open in Marbella by next spring, giving the Costa del Sol town 'an indispensable facility' to help cater for its growing population and ever-increasing tourist numbers.

A DOCUMENTARY series on TV starring Spanish president Pedro Sánchez and showing the 'human side of the Moncloa Palace' is currently being filmed by a Goya-winning director.

THREE years after it was last celebrated, the Comunidad Valenciana's giant March Fallas festival is back on, with massive, colourful papier-mâché monuments in every neighbourhood of almost every town within the province of Valencia.

A STUDENT in Valencia has invented a T-shirt which detects heart attacks, arrhythmias and other cardio problems and sends a message to the wearer's computer or mobile phone.

AROUND 30 children with cancer were due to arrive today (Friday) in Spain along with their families on a flight charted from Ukraine, Spanish president Pedro Sánchez announced.

TWO years on from the Covid-19 pandemic entering Spain and with its first peacetime lockdown in centuries on the horizon, survival rate among those who catch the virus is now 'above 90%', according to medics.

UKRAINIANS without valid residence permits living in Spain will automatically be given leave to remain in the country, even if they arrived before the war broke out, the national government has confirmed.

MICROWAVES: Where would we be without them? Take away our hob, our oven, if you will, but don't touch this little cube-shaped object on the worktop that probably cost between €50 and €100 and without which we probably couldn't eat, except cold st...

EVEN though everyone who uses a car in Spain knows – or should know – what the legal drink-driving limit is, most motorists are unclear as to how much alcohol this translates to in terms of liquid volume, so the Guardia Civil has released a guide...