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An action figure of Dragon Ball character Goku. Photo: around4o'clock / Flickr Creative Commons.

Baby 'Goku' is first in Spain named after anime

A baby born in July has become the first in Spanish history to be named and baptized 'Goku', a moniker inspired by the cult anime series Dragon Ball. READ

The residential block in Carabanchel collapsed on Monday Photo: Emergencias Madrid

Block of flats collapses after huge cracks appear

A Madrid apartment block collapsed on Monday just hours after it was evacuated when residents reported the appearance of large cracks during the night. READ

Gallery

A man takes pictures of a street art mural on the facade of a house in Fanzara. Photo: Jose Jordan / AFP

Village celebrates rebirth as graffiti museum

A dying village in rural Castellón has been transformed into an open air gallery dedicated to street art. READ

An archive photo of a ferry in the port of Almeria, similar to the one in a which a man died when being smuggled inside a suitcase. Photo: Corse1959 / Wikimedia Com

Man hidden in suitcase dies en route to Spain

A man from northern Africa who hid inside a suitcase on a ferry bound for mainland Spain died on Sunday while making the five hour crossing. READ

Cilla Black died on Sunday at her Spanish holiday home. Archive photo: Odd Anderson / AFP

Cilla Black post-mortem due in southern Spain

Cilla Black died at her holiday home on Spain's Costa del Sol on Sunday. Police will establish the cause of death with a post-mortem to be carried out on Monday. READ

Pro-independence Catalans hold up the Catalan flag during a rally. Photo: Josep Lago / AFP

Catalonia to call election in independence push

Catalonia is expected to call on Monday an early regional election that will serve as a proxy vote on independence from the rest of Spain, raising tensions with the central government in Madrid. READ

Migrants aboard a dinghy heading to Europe. Archive photo: AFP

Four migrants drown trying to swim into Spain

Four migrants died on Sunday after trying to swim to Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta from northern Morocco, the government in Rabat said. READ

Merche Esmeralda performing in 2009. Photo: Daniel Garcia /AFP

Reinventing Spain's 'ageless art' of flamenco

Veteran flamenco star, Merche Esmeralda, is the figurehead of the renaissance of Spain's classic gypsy dance. READ

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Photo: John Thys / AFP

Varoufakis warns Spain could 'become Greece'

Spain could become like Greece if the same austerity policies are imposed on the country, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said in an interview published Sunday. READ

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Gerard Julien/AFP

Spanish public workers to get pay rise

Spanish public workers will get a one-percent pay rise next year, the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday, trumpeting the country’s economic recovery a few months ahead of a general election. READ

Features

Vogue Like a Painting merges high fashion with high art. Photo: Sara Houlison

Madrid's traditional art scene goes high fashion

Madrid’s museums are moving away from the traditional to embrace new artistic forms and the latest brings a touch of haute couture to the capital's celebrated art scene. READ

The Local list

Spain is the biggest exporter of wine in the world. Photo: LexnGer/Flickr

10 facts you didn't know about Spanish wine

It was the Romans' favourite drink, a muse to Picasso and fell victim to the fascist regime of dicator Francisco Franco. Wine blogger Timmer Brown lifts the lid on everything you (probably) didn't know about Spanish vino. READ

My Spanish career

Maura Hillen is councillor for tourism and international relations

'Majority of expats treat Spain as a holiday camp'

The Local talks to Maura Hillen, president of the AUAN property rights association and now local councillor in Albox, southern Spain who thinks expats need to get more politically engaged. READ

The Local list

Ernest Hemingway was a regular at Cafe Iruña when he visited Pamplona. Photo: dlmanrg/Flickr

Ernest Hemingway's favourite Spanish haunts

To commemorate the birthday of Ernest Hemingway The Local takes a look at some of his favourite haunts in Spain. READ

Photo: Shutterstock

Top tips for taking the perfect Spanish siesta

Multiple scientific studies in recent years have proven that a short sleep after lunch provides health benefits, including stress reduction, and improves alertness and memory. READ

More News

The bridge from which Ms De Abreu jumped. Photo: Macucal / Wikimedia Commons

Two face charges over Spain bungee jump death

Two people are facing charges of manslaughter over the death of a British woman who died bungee-jumping in Spain. READ

Video

Screengrab from video posted by karrasko82 on Youtube

Tourist lies on speeding car in latest stupid stunt

Footage showing a half-naked tourist spread-eagled across the back of a car speeding along a busy motorway outside Marbella is being investigated by police. READ

BBVA is Spain's second biggest bank. Archive photo: AFP

Recovering Spanish banks see profits rise

Major Spanish banks reported a surge in quarterly net profits on Friday as earnings soared in a sector that just three years ago had to be bailed out. READ

The remains of the Republican soldier were found thanks to the memories of a man who was 10 years old at the time of the murder. Photo: Governació. Gencat/Twitter

Childhood memory helps to locate Civil War grave

A man who witnessed the execution of a Republican soldier as a ten-year-old boy in 1939 has led investigators to the unmarked grave. READ

The shooting took place outside the Hotel Silken Ramblas. Photo: hoteles-silken.com

Barcelona shooting victim was Dutch fugitive

Police have discovered that the man shot outside a hotel in the tourist heart of Barcelona was a Dutch member of an illegal biker gang wanted by Interpol. He has been arrested in his hospital bed. READ

Archive photo of a flooded tent. Photo: Paul Holloway/Flickr

Hundreds flee floods at music festival campsite

Around a thousand people camping at the Arenal Sound festival on Spain’s eastern coast had to be evacuated from the site in the early hours of Friday morning after heavy rains caused major flooding. READ

San Sebastian has a week of festivities in August. Photo: Donostiako Festak / Flickr

What's on in Spain: August 2015

It's holiday season and towns and cities are preparing to host some of the best parties of the year. The Local gives you a round up of all the most interesting events around the country in August. READ

One of Spain's nuclear power stations Photo: Jesús Pérez Pacheco / Flickr

Row threatens Spain's first nuclear graveyard

Spain's conservative government and the central region of Castilla-La Mancha locked horns Thursday over plans to build the nation's first-ever temporary storage facility for highly radioactive waste. READ

The girl was left with windows closed and door locked while her parents went shopping. Hallyn / Flickr

Parents lock child in hot car to hit Marbella shops

Police have arrested a couple who left their 12-year-old daughter locked in a car in the midday sun outside a Marbella shopping centre. READ

Portuguese footballer Nuno Silva has caused a stir by wearing a Franco T-shirt during his first press conference for a Spanish team. Screen shot: ElDiaDespues12Plus/YouTube

Footballer sparks row by wearing Franco T-shirt

The latest signing to Real Jaén FC wore a T-shirt printed with the face of the fascist dictator and after causing a stir claimed not to have a clue who the man was. READ

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Mary Vetsera. Photo: ÖNB

Mary Vetsera's suicide letters found

Suicide letters believed to have been written by the mistress of Austria’s Crown Prince Rudolf, 17-year-old Mary Vetsera, before her untimely death have been found in an archive of the private Schoeller bank. READ

The Thai Airways flight continued to Bangkok. Photo: Faisal Akram

Drunk Swiss man tied up on flight to Bangkok

Passengers on a flight from Zurich to Bangkok were forced to tie up a drunk Swiss man who caused a fracas during the journey. READ

Photo: DPA

Doctor on trial after woman wakes in morgue

A doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia will face charges for negligence and bodily harm, authorities said on Tuesday – after accidentally sending a living woman to the morgue. READ

The Faroese 'whale grind'. Photo: Sea Shepherd

Anti-whaling activists 'hypocrites': Danish MP

With Danish MPs being spammed by thousands of emails from anti-whaling protesters, one angry MP has said animals in other countries have far worse lives than the whales hunted off the Faroe Islands. READ

French police officers stand guard as a car arrives at the villa of the Saudi king in Vallauris. Photo: AFP

Saudi royals 'bar' French policewomen from beach

The storm around the Riviera beach "privatized" for the Saudi royals took a new twist on Tuesday when it emerged the Middle Eastern visitors had asked French police not to send any female officers to guard the beach. READ

Video

Photo: screengrab Youreporter.it

Alitalia attendant loses cool amid airport chaos

A video showing an Alitalia flight attendant shoving a passenger at Rome's Fiumicino airport has gone viral. READ

Trygve Bernhardsen as he arrived on Lyngør to wed bride Ellen Hertzberg. Photo: Screen Grab

79-year-old Norwegian swims to own wedding

A 79-year-old Norwegian has swum across a fjord in the pouring rain dressed only in swimming trunks and a bow tie to wed his 65-year-old bride-to-be on the rocks. READ

The Local List

How to become a Swedish woman. Photo: Susanne Walström/imagebank.sweden.se

Nine ways to become a truly Swedish woman

Have you ever paid for yourself on a date - or yelled at a man for whistling at you on the street? Then you may be more typically Swedish than you think. We’ve put together a list of nine experiences that make a truly Swedish woman. READ

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