MORTGAGE contracts signed for buying new residential property have risen by 41.2%, according to the most recent figures – the highest increase since December 2019, three months before the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe, according to the National Stat...

A YOUNG Afghan student who spent his 'sandwich' year in Spain has been safely evacuated to Madrid along with his family, thanks to a petition on Change.org.

IN WEATHER terms, summer is far from over in Spain just yet, but the holiday season is drawing to a close and, with it, major trunk roads are expected to be chock-full with cars between now and about the middle of next week.

A BUSINESSMAN from Catalunya left a tip of nearly €4,100 at Marbella's Playa Padre Restaurant as redress for criticism he had seen on social media.

HOLIDAYMAKERS on 'staycation' in Spain are now back to pre-pandemic levels – or even higher – in many regions, although foreign tourist numbers still have some catching up to do.

A VILLAGE in the province of Teruel is calling for a family with school-aged children to go and live there, offering guaranteed employment, three months' free rent and a heavily-discounted price thereafter.

ECONOMY minister Nadia Calviño has celebrated the 'huge' and 'positive' news that Spain has just received its first €9 billion from the European Union as part of the post-Covid recovery cash.

KING Mohammed VI of Morocco has contacted Spain's president Pedro Sánchez and expressed his wish to 'turn over the page' and 'start again' – an announcement Sánchez calls 'great news'.

OVER half of all secondary school-aged students have now had at least their first dose of the Covid vaccine, with two weeks to go before the new term starts.

A FEMALE soldier embracing an Afghan woman who had just arrived on an evacuee plane in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) has gone viral and shown the 'human' side of the Armed Forces.

ROAD traffic rules such as the meaning of signs and markings and use of lanes are similar in the majority of countries, but some minor elements differ as we cross borders and, in practice, a lot of native or resident drivers in a given country may no...

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.