Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked — functions: the ability to make phone calls. In previous years, Google Assistant learned to screen your calls and make your reservations by phone via a technology called Duplex. Last year, it […]
Basque leader says Eta terror deaths ‘should never have happened’
Arnaldo Otegi’s statement before 10th anniversary of end of campaign goes further than previous apologiesA leading leftwing Basque nationalist politician and former Eta member has said the violence the terrorist group used in its quest for independence…
How I went from a college dorm brainstorm to leading edtech
StuDocu co-founder and CEO Marnix Broer shares his journey of building and scaling the study resources sharing platform.
Kylian Mbappé sinks Spain to clinch Nations League for France
Maybe this Nations League thing isn’t a bad idea after all. It may not be universally recognised as a real tournament, at least not yet, but it turns out that it’s a lot of fun. The final four brought three wild nights in Milan and champions who twice …
Spain v France: Nations League final – live!
Updates from the 7.45pm (UK time) kick-off at San SiroMbappé can transform France into the great entertainersGet in touch! Email Daniel or tweet him hereThe key to Spain’s win over Italy – other than how poorly Italy played – was the performance of Mik…
‘Freedom’: exhibition celebrates Barcelona’s 1970s counterculture
Underground recalls brief but intense flowering of movement in city following death of FrancoWhen Spain’s repressive dictatorship finally came to a close with the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the counterculture that had been bubbling away for yea…
Old wounds are exposed as Spain finally brings up the bodies of Franco’s victims
In 1940, thousands of the dictator’s opponents were summarily shot and thrown into mass graves. Now these are being openedTrowel-heap by trowel-heap, brushstroke by brushstroke, a skull rises from a pillow of ochre earth. Its empty eye sockets stare up…
At least four buildings on La Palma destroyed by volcano
Buildings near the crater on the Spanish island were engulfed by lava on Saturday morningBuildings near the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma have been engulfed by rivers of lava, with the drama of the red-hot eruption intensified by the specta…
Archbishop apologises for steamy video filmed in Spanish cathedral
Video shows rapper C Tangana and singer Nathy Peluso grind against each other inside Toledo CathedralThe archbishop of Toledo has apologised to offended Roman Catholics after one of Spain’s most famous cathedrals was used as a location for a raunchy vi…
Ferran Torres double sweeps Spain past Italy and into Nations League final
So this is how it feels. After three years in charge, having claimed a European Championship and set a new world record, Roberto Mancini finally tasted defeat. After 37 games unbeaten going back to Portugal in September 2018, Italy lost at last. Two fi…