CAPTAINS of Afghanistan's national wheelchair basketball women's and men's teams have landed at the military airport of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid region) to start a new life.

FOR the second time in less than four years, Spain is home to the world's oldest man – Saturnino, who is 112-and-a-half, now holds the title after Emilio Flores from Puerto Rico passed away just over a week ago.

TOP Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has announced he will be taking the rest of 2021 off in order to recover fully from an injury that has been 'playing up' for more than a year.

IT IS not easy to stay anonymous when your car is clamped in a city-centre street and it just so happens to be a £150,000 (€172,500) Aston Martin Vantage – as Manchester United's David de Gea has just found out. 

FORMER Spain football team captain and World Cup goalkeeper Iker Casillas is helping tackle a giant forest fire in Castilla y León and rake up withered scrubland to prevent flare-ups where it has not yet reached.

A TISSUE used by Leo Messi to dry his tears and blow his nose during his emotional departure from FC Barcelona has been put up for auction for US$1 million.

A FRENCH astronaut who orbits Earth 16 times a day takes a photo of his favourite city from space every 24 hours and greets its residents on Twitter.

PRETTY Woman star Richard Gere has been seen on holiday in the Galicia coastal town of Oleiros (A Coruña province), where his wife Alejandra Silva was born and grew up.

CUSTOMS duties levied on Spain's olive oil exporters by former US president Donald Trump have been lifted by new leader Joe Biden – and business between the two countries has soared.

CELEBRITY chef José Andrés landed in Port-au-Prince about 20 hours ago with a full set of kitchen equipment to feed survivors of the devastating earthquake which has left 1,419 dead.

A WEEKEND heatwave that coloured most of the map of Spain deep burgundy on the weather channels brought a new record temperature high – the top figure ever registered since records began over 101 years ago.

TRYING to cram in all of Spain's top monuments in one lifetime means being constantly on the go, even if you start your road-trips in playschool and live to be over 100. Perhaps what we really need is the equivalent of Las Vegas, where you can tour e...

SIX million doses of Covid vaccines will be donated this summer to various Caribbean and Latin American countries by Spain's government, the health ministry has announced.

THIS year's bank holiday over the 'Feast of the Assumption' on August 15 is one of several that have been 'lost' due to falling on a weekend, but some regions will be moving it to the following Monday – and traffic jams will be the inevitable resul...

A FIRST phase of clinical trials for a Covid vaccine created entirely in Spain has been authorised, and if all goes according to plan, the formula could be in use by between January and March next year.