Europe Spain A new supercomputer, nicknamed 'Albaicin', was recently switched on at the University of Granada; it takes it 24 hours to perform tasks that used to take 25 years and will be available to the more than 125 research groups and 500 scientists in Andalusia
Europe Spain Among European countries, Spain has the most plants and animals at risk of extinction; data from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species show that one in seven species (14,51%) in the country is classified as endangered
Europe Spain Actors, TV channels and 30.000 social media users have joined the search for a man's lost scarf in Albacete, after the widowed man put up posters around the city looking for the orange scarf given to him by his wife
Europe Spain Spanish police received €1 million from Europol to continue their fight against international crime until 2025
Europe Spain Activists are fighting to stop the cruelty of the world's first octopus farm in the Canary Islands
Europe Spain The activity of the volcano on the Canary island of La Palma has come to a complete halt, almost three months after its first eruption, according to sources at the National Geographic Institute, who consider it "unlikely" it will resume its activity
Europe Spain Thanks to new legislation - opposed only by the far-right Vox party - pets and wild species will no longer be considered "objects" in the Spanish civil code, but will be treated as "sentient beings"
Europe Spain Interest in European retirement communities is developing in more areas of the country, with Costa Blanca's Forum Mare Nostrum retirement residential community, with a majority of foreigner residents, sold to an international fund for €35 million
Europe Spain The government confirmed that it will restore state-funded fertility treatment to single, bisexual and lesbian women, extending it to transgender people who can conceive as well
Europe Spain PM Sanchez has announced a new law to abolish prostitution, as the country ranks third in the world in the percentage of men who pay for sex; the women involved, most of whom are victims of trafficking, will be protected from such a radical change
Europe Spain A Burger King in Madrid is going entirely meatless for a month, after teaming up with the Vegetarian Butrcher to offer plant-based food only in order to raise awareness about vegetarian options for people's diets
Europe Spain Two generations of botanists have completed a titanic task, describing the 6.120 plants of Spain and Portugal; after 39 years and 255 authors, it has been discovered that 22% of the species on the Iberian Peninsula do not grow anywhere else in the world
Europe Spain Around half a million Spanish citizens who are turning 18 next year will receive €400 to spend on cultural events, not including bullfights