Barcelona News & Information

AN ENDANGERED species of giraffe has been born at Barcelona zoo – 10-year-old Nuru, from Emmen zoo in The Netherlands, gave birth this month and mother and baby are both doing well.

TEEN climate change activist Greta Thunberg has inspired a children's opera due to be performed in Granollers (Barcelona province).

A HANDY new tool on the Barcelona metro is making life easier for everyone – and residents who use underground rail networks in the rest of Spain's cities are hoping it will spread nationwide.

MOBILE World Congress organisers have cancelled the huge annual trade fair in Barcelona after several major technology companies pulled out as a precaution in light of the Coronavirus outbreak.

SCIENTISTS from Spain are working with Texas State University on developing a Coronavirus vaccination using 'bio-digital models'.

BARCELONA'S Vall d'Hebron hospital has carried out a triple transplant on a child who is now 'living a normal life' – making it the first centre in the world to to so on a non-adult patient.

A GIANT lit-up reindeer in the Barcelona-province town of Viladecans programmed to wish everyone felices fiestas ('Happy holidays') has been 'hacked' and now gives out 'patriotic' anti...

After many years of speculation and investigation, research scientists at the Bellvitge-IDIBELL Hospital and the University of Barcelona (UB) have finally demonstrated the involvement of glucose in the growth of tumour...

BARCELONA is set to ban high-emission vehicles from an area 20 times the size of the so-called 'Madrid Central' traffic-free zone in the capital, starting next year.

PRINCESS Leonor earned a standing ovation for her speech last night at the second round of awards named after her – the Princess of Girona prizegiving ceremony in, not Girona, but Barcelona.

A BRITISH woman with a rare condition that means a simple turn of her head could be fatal is hoping to travel to Barcelona for pioneering surgery.

A 'LOW-COST' version of Spain's high-speed AVE rail link is set to go live in January, starting with the Madrid-Barcelona connection, one of its most heavily-frequented routes.