Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle weakens super typhoon temporarilyEarlier this week, Typhoon Mawar whipped up tension in western Micronesia as the category 4 storm came close to landfall on the island of Guam. Starti…
続きを読むCarlos Soria forced to abandon ascent of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri, one of two 8,000-metre summits he is still to conquerAn 84-year-old Spanish mountaineer has been forced to abandon his 15th attempt to reach the summit of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri – one of the two …
続きを読むRecords for countries broken just weeks after temperature in Thailand rose above 45C for the first timeAll-time temperature records were broken in Vietnam and Laos last week. On 6 May, Hoi Xuan in Vietnam reached a scorching 44.1C, breaking the previou…
続きを読むPedro Sánchez encourages dialogue between Xi Jinping and Ukrainian president during China visitRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesSpain’s prime minister has said he conveyed concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Xi Jinping, urging Beijing …
続きを読むPedro Sánchez says he will tell Chinese leader it must be Ukrainians who ‘lay down conditions’ for any peace agreementSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, will visit China next week to meet President Xi Jinping, where he is expected to stress that it…
続きを読むOsel Hita Torres joined a monastery after the Dalai Lama declared him a reincarnated spiritual leader, but at 18 he broke free and moved to Ibiza. A new TV series tells his storyAt the age of 14 months, Osel Hita Torres was recognised by the Dalai Lama…
続きを読むSpain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media calls move ‘discriminatory’European countries are preparing to scale up the monitoring of potential new coronavirus variants from China, as Spain becomes the secon…
続きを読むEffective United Nations peace negotiator who brought about dialogue between warring parties in many international crisesFrancesc Vendrell, who has died aged 82, was one of the longest serving and most successful United Nations peace negotiators of mod…
続きを読むHuge chunk of Long March 5B rocket launched four days previously re-enters atmosphereA hefty chunk of the massive rocket used to deliver the third module of China’s Tiangong space station has fallen back to Earth uncontrolled, triggering the closure of…
続きを読むAt least 86 Chinese cities issue alerts, while temperatures soar in south-west and central US and Iberian peninsulaDangerous heatwaves are engulfing parts of China, Europe, south-west and central US this week, as dozens of cities have found themselves …
続きを読むTranslated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University libraryThere is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book co…
続きを読むIn March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if emissions continue to riseWhen the temperature readings star…
続きを読むSpaniard alleged to have conspired with cryptocurrency expert to help Pyongyang evade US sanctionsThe FBI has issued an arrest warrant for a Spanish man who claims to be a “special delegate” working for the government of North Korea, accusing him of re…
続きを読むAs the UK Treasury pushes for free tests to be scrapped, here’s how charges look in other countriesUK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warningsIn Australia, a federal scheme introduced at the end of January allows pension…
続きを読むSurvey also finds adults aged 18-24 and women more concerned about personal finances than other groupsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageYoung people and women have taken the hardest psychological and financial hit from the pan…
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