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Valencia Students' 'Micro-Plastic Sea Filter' Wins Top Design Award A group of students at Valencia Polytechnic have won the prestigious James Dyson Award for their planet-saving invention: a buoy which filters [...]

UN Climate Change Summit – 2nd December A United Nations’ Climate Change Summit due to be held in Chile, but cancelled as a result of mass protests across the nation, will [...]

Largest Digital Library On Earth For The Blind  The biggest digital library on earth in the Spanish language adapted for the blind has just opened, with over 64,000 works accessible to [...]

Repeat General Election Announced  Spaniards will be called back to the polls for a second general election – the 4th in as many years – on November 10th after PSOE leader [...]

Collectors Pay Hundreds For Old Peseta Coins  Anyone who still has Spain’s old currency in their possession has until the end of next year to change it for its equivalent in [...]

Spanish Armed Forces Promotes Its First Female General It is over 30 years since Spain first allowed women to join its Armed Forces. Now a female soldier has been promoted to [...]

Europe Pulls Spain Out Of ‘Debt Watch’ The European Commission has scored Spain off its ‘debt monitoring’ list after concluding that the country’s deficit is now comfortably below 3% of its [...]

British Paedophile Caught In Albox A British paedophile who abused children in his family over a 44-year period has been arrested in Albox (Almería province) after being on the run for [...]

Córdoba University Invents Almond-Husk Powered Car Battery A planet-friendly way to fuel a car, in a nutshell! Batteries for electrically-powered vehicles that run on almond shells last 60% longer than the [...]