After spending his first night in a tent in central Madrid, David Muller-Plantenberg said he would remain there as long as needed to press the government to tackle Spain’s housing crisis.
British budget airline EasyJet will operate six new routes between Spain and the UK from 2027, including establishing a new base at Girona airport in the north-east of the country.
In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of raspberries and smells of rum. The line came from the Guardian, which built it from a press release by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. The release was much […]
A growing protest camp in the heart of Madrid over unaffordable housing pushed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Sunday to pledge swift government action.
For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central Mexico from roughly the first to the sixth century AD, with a population that may have reached 125,000 — actually have a writing system, or were its symbols just decorative emblems? The stakes of that question […]
Durante décadas, los expertos discutieron si Teotihuacan —la ciudad que dominó el centro de México entre los siglos I y VI d. C., con una población que pudo alcanzar los 125.000 habitantes— poseía un sistema de escritura verdadero o si, por el contrario, sus signos eran simples emblemas decorativos. La pregunta no era menor: los […]
India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely states, which supplied their own troops to the British war effort. Grouped into the 15th Cavalry Brigade and led into the final charge […]
Cada 23 de septiembre se celebra en Nueva Delhi y Jaipur un curioso evento histórico-militar: el Día de Haifa, en el que el ejército indio conmemora su protagonismo en la batalla homónima de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando los regimientos de lanceros de Jodhpur, Hyderabad y Mysore, integrados en la 15ª Brigada de Caballería y […]
Spanish public railway company Renfe on Friday said it had suffered a cyberattack that compromised some user data, with media reporting that criminals used AI in a first for Spain.
After recent regional election breakthroughs by the Alternative for Germany (AfD), here is an overview of radical, nationalist and far- and hard-right parties' positions across Europe in recent years.
Thousands of people rallied in Madrid on Saturday to protest the Spanish government's handling of a recent migrant influx into Ceuta, accusing it of failing to protect the country's borders and calling for an early general election.
A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath sometime after an invasion in the 260s CE and was never used for bathing again. Centuries later, someone gutted much of its […]
Un equipo de investigadores ha publicado el hallazgo de una instalación de procesamiento agrícola construida dentro del llamado Baño Pequeño de Antioquía del Crago (Antioquia ad Cragum), en la región histórica de Cilicia Áspera, en la actual Turquía. El estudio, firmado por Emlyn Dodd (Universidad de Adelaida), Leticia R. Rodriguez (Universidad de Houston) y otros […]
In this week's Inside Spain, we look at how 87-year-old Maricarmen's eviction is just one of many abuses being carried out against renters in Spain, and how Spanish politicians are failing millions of people with limp law-making.
Spain's main tenants' unions on Friday urged the government to pass a new law to tackle the country's housing crisis after an 87-year-old was evicted from her Madrid home, sparking nationwide protests.
The Spanish city of Lleida on Friday approved a ban on full-face coverings in most public spaces in a rare step targeting the Muslim burqa and niqab in the country.
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El Ministerio de Turismo y Antigüedades egipcio ha anunciado el hallazgo de una tumba de época romana con una arquitectura que, según el propio Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades, no tiene paralelo exacto en el resto de la necrópolis donde apareció. Se encuentra en Bir El-Shaghala, un yacimiento del oasis de Dajla, a unos 750 kilómetros […]
En los años setenta, el pequeño núcleo de Stein, en la Baja Austria, estuvo a punto de convertirse en el emplazamiento de la segunda central nuclear del país. El proyecto se abandonó y el lugar quedó como una franja más de tierra de labor junto al Danubio. Medio siglo después, esos mismos campos han revelado […]
Hace unos 315.000 años un grupo de humanos primitivos vivía en lo que hoy es Marruecos. Sus restos, descubiertos en el yacimiento de Jebel Irhoud, son los fósiles más antiguos jamás atribuidos a nuestra especie, el Homo sapiens. Ahora, un equipo internacional de investigadores ha reconstruido su rostro a partir de un cráneo compuesto digitalmente, […]
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