Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett

Here are the five potential winners from Kim Hellberg’s arrival at Middlesbrough and why they will thrive under him.

Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summit

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’ Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but with a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”. Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...

The musician, known as 'Mani', played on both Stone Roses albums and later joined Primal Scream.

Im Münchner Westen ist eine Fliegerbombe gefunden worden. Die eine halbe Tonne schwere Bombe wird erst in einigen Tagen entschärft. Dann müssen tausende Anwohner evakuiert werden. Unterdessen stellt d...

In der Erinnerung an die Münchner Widerstandsgruppe der Weißen Rose stehen heute Hans und Sophie Scholl im Zentrum. Ihre Mitstreiter*innen werden vielfach nur unzureichend gewürdigt. Wer sich mit der ...

The stories behind the winners of the 21st THE Awards, including the University of the Year, Teesside University

Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama

This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable, says the journalist María Ramírez

Kim Hellberg is in pole position to become Middlesbrough's next head coach.

The country’s government is upbeat about the economic prospects of the growing number of windfarms, solar parks and industrial complexes but others warn of ‘green colonialism’

Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Ca...

It's not the first time Mayor Lord Ben Houchen’s Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) has been snubbed by the government since an independent report into its handling of the Teesworks regeneration si...

Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.

Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme Rachel Reeves has drawn up a plan to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy expensive manual and electric bicycles, according to a report. The chancellor is expected to introduce a new limit on how much people can spend on a bicycle through the cycle to work scheme in this month’s budget, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with budget preparations, amid concerns that subsidising cycle purchases is not the best use of taxpayers’ money. Continue reading...

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found. Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update. Continue reading...

Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan