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Spain's King Felipe will meet Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, on Wednesday in Brussels. Photos: AFP

Pablo Iglesias to face awkward meet with King

The leader of radical left-wing party Podemos, will meet Spain's King in Brussels on Wednesday, in what could be an awkward encounter after his party's comments on abolishing the monarchy. READ

Final interview

Nobel prize-winning author, Gunter Grass, who died on Monday. Photo: Fabien Bimmer/AFP.

Günter Grass: world is 'sleepwalking' into war

Germany's Nobel-winning author Günter Grass said he feared humanity was "sleepwalking" into a world war in the last interview he gave, to a Spanish newspaper, before his death on Monday. READ

Lucio Morrone was arrested in Benalmadena Photo: Guardia Civil

Mafia boss arrested in Costa del Sol post office

Police have arrested one of Italy's most wanted mafia crime bosses as he went to collect a money transfer on the Costa del Sol. READ

Saharawi people protest in Madrid, November 2014. Photo: Javier Soriano / AFP

Rabat 'conscience clear' on Western Sahara

Morocco's foreign minister said on Monday said his country was not troubled by a Spanish court's genocide charges against 11 former officials accused of killing and torture in Western Sahara. READ

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo in Moscow, March 10. Photo: Yuri Kadobnov / AFP

Spain to propose that UN set up terrorism court

Spain's foreign minister announced that Spain will propose that the United Nations create an international court specialised in terrorism crimes. READ

Photo of La Venus beach in Marbella: Shutterstock

Tragedy in Marbella: Three tourists drown

A teacher and two teenagers, part of a group of deaf students on a trip to Marbella from Turkey, have drowned while swimming on the Costa del Sol. READ

Easter in Spain. Photo: AFP

One in five Spaniards are 'convinced atheists'

More than half of Spaniards admit that they are either "not religious" or are "convinced atheists", according to a new global study that shows the dramatic loss of faith in the traditionally Roman Catholic nation.READ

Photo of someone voting: Shutterstock

Last ditch plea for UK expats to register to vote

With the UK general election looming, expats are being reminded to register to vote before next week's deadline. READ

Head of the Catalan regional government Artur Mas greeting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP

Rajoy: 'Islamic world is also a victim of terrorism'

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy opened a Euro-Mediterranean meeting on terror in Barcelona on Monday, making veiled references to the issue of Catalan independence in his opening remarks and warning that jihadism should not be confused with Islam. READ 4 comments

Alps plane crash

The foreign ministers of Spain, France and Germany attend a memorial to the victims of Germanwings flight 4U9525. Photo: Quique Garcia/AFP

Germanwings memorial held in Barcelona

Spain's foreign minister was joined by his French and German counterparts on Monday for a memorial to the victims of Germanwings flight 4U9525. READ

Features

Gallery: Almodóvar's most iconic leading ladies

Pedro Almodóvar at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP

Almodóvar unveils cast for latest film 'Silencio'

Celebrated Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has unveiled the cast for his next film, Silencio, including his two new "chicas Almodóvar". READ

In pics

Tonymadrid Photography and Bryan Ledgard

Battle of the cities: Madrid vs Manchester

In a vicious war of words, "ugly" Manchester has been pitted against "miserable" Madrid. Who will be victorious in the battle of the cities? The Local finds out... READ

Anna Allen appearing on Spanish programme, Pasapalabra. Screen grab: YouTube/bogo xoer.

Exposed: actress who faked Oscar glory

The invented life of a Spanish actress has been revealed after Spanish media discovered she had not actually attended the Oscars, but used Photoshop to place herself on the red carpet. READ 3 comments

Madrid Podemos rally

Photo: Pedro Armestre/AFP

Young and old, rich and poor join left-wing march

Not just young radicals: Spaniards of all ages and backgrounds came out in their thousands to support a left-wing political party currently making waves in Spain. The Local caught up with some of them to find out why they are such big fans of Podemos. READ

Opinion

The five strangest things about Spaniards

After two years at the helm of The Local Spain, George Mills is moving on. Here he reflects on some of the most puzzling aspects of life in a country he believes is one of the greatest places to live in the world.READ 2 comments

More News

An image from an AFPTV video showing a jihadist with Isis in Syria. Photo: AFPTV / AFP

More than 6,000 have left Europe for Isis jihad: EU

EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová said Europeans who have gone to join jihadist Isis fighters in Syria may number more than 6,000.READ

Photo of a skinny model: Shutterstock

Catalonia in bid to ban skinny models

Catalonia is planning to ban underweight models from appearing in advertisements in the region in a bid to promote a healthier body image. READ

Atletico de Madrid vs Real Madrid at the Vicente Calderon, February 7th, 2015. Photo: Cesar Manso / AFP

Atletico seek Real revenge in quarter final

Last season's Champions League finalists Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid meet for the seventh time this season in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final, first leg with revenge in mind for both. READ

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias at a press conferenc

Podemos support has stagnated: new poll

Spain's anti-austerity party Podemos has lost its lead in opinion polls, with four parties now running neck-and-neck, according to a survey published in El Pais newspaper on Sunday. READ

The forecast for Catalan independence isn't looking as sunny as it once did. Photo: AFP

Catalan statehood bid blown off course

Leaders seeking independence for Spain's Catalonia region had the wind in their sails four months ago, but the change sweeping Spanish politics has blown them off course. READ

Alps Plane Crash

Photo: DPA

Lufthansa docs wanted treatment for co-pilot

Doctors at Lufthansa had recommended that pilot Andreas Lubitz, suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps, be given psychological treatment after he suffered a bout of depression, a German newspaper has reported. READ

Police arrested 10 in Catalonia suspected of links to the Islamic State group. Photo: AFP

Jihadists planned attacks in Spain: judge

A gang suspected of links to the Islamic State group planned possible kidnappings, an execution and attacks on Jewish shops and public buildings in Spain, an investigating judge said on Friday. READ 3 comments

Stolpersteine pictured in Germany in 2013. Photo: Stefan Sauer/AFP

Spain gets first memorial stones to Nazi victims

The Catalonian town of Navás has installed Spain’s first stolpersteine - stones commemorating victims of the Holocaust. READ

Black vultures at the rehabilitation centre before being transferred to France. Photo: Vulture Conservation Foundation

Spain's newest export to France: Vultures

It is well known that France imports Spain’s wine, its jamon and its olive oil, but now Spain is sending a rather different cargo over the Pyrenees to its northern neighbour. READ

Luis Barcenas represented in papier mache form ahead of Las Fallas Photo:Jose Jordan/AFP.

Disgraced treasurer finds popularity - as a cartoon

A Spanish satirical comic is enjoying record breaking sales this week, thanks to its latest cover star - a cartoon version of Luis Bárcenas, the man at the centre of a corruption scandal. READ

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Photo: Rinspeed

Swiss auto with Austrian brain turns heads

Swiss tuning specialist Rinspeed has developed a concept for the future of cars, together with boffins from the small Austrian town of Gratkorn. READ

The Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. Photo: Adam Nieman/Flickr

CERN 'in shock' over fatal Valais avalanche

UPDATE: An official from the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday the organization was in shock over an avalanche that killed one of its employees and critically injured another in the canton of Valais on Sunday. READ

Alps Plane Crash

A specially laid-on Lufthansa plane leaves Düsseldorf for the crash site, carrying victims' relatives, on March 26th. Photo: DPA

Woman faked plane crash link for free flights

A woman who obtained multiple free flights to southern France by pretending to be the cousin of a Germanwings flight 4U9525 victim now faces legal action by the airline's parent company Lufthansa.READ

A Jewish store in Østerbro in Copenhagen was vandalized in the early hours of Thursday morning. Photo: Nils Meilvang/Scanpix

Jewish store vandalized in Copenhagen

A Jewish store in Copenhagen had a window broken and an anti-Semitic slur scrawled on its walls in an act of vandalism that comes less than two months after the shooting dead of a guard outside a synagogue. READ

Where's the handle? The French love to drink out of a bowl. Photo: Su-May/Flickr

My French habits that foreigners just don't get

Do the French have certain habits you just can't work out? Here, UK-based French journalist Chloé Farand lists a number of her typical Gallic traits or customs that leave her Anglo friends bemused or, if bread, jam and coffee are involved, even disgusted. READ

Italian with scarf in summer photo: Shutterstock

My Italian habits that foreigners just don’t get

Do Italians have certain habits you just can't work out? Here, Anna Pujol-Mazzini lists a number of typical traits or customs that leave her Anglo friends bemused. READ

Video

A screen grab of the girls gyrating in their farming gear. Photo: YouTube

Norway farming song is surprise YouTube hit

A protest song about farming in Norway has become a surprise hit on YouTube, although its success may hang more on the spectacle of young women prancing about in green overalls than from its political message. READ

Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad at a press conference after Sweden's October submarine hunt. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT

'Submarine' in Sweden was only civilian boat

UPDATED: A suspected submarine spotted in the Stockholm archipelago a week after Sweden's extensive hunt for Russian underwater vessels last autumn was only a civilian boat, Sweden's Armed Forces have now said. But they remain convinced that the first sighting was a small foreign sub. READ