Dilip Kuner

4 days ago | theolivepress.es | Dilip Kuner

THE changing of the guard in Spain’s culinary landscape may be starting, with some of its culinary heavyweights slipping on the global stage while others move up. The first big name to disappear from the 2025 World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is 2024’s winner, Disfrutar, Barcelona’s experimental flavour palace. It is not named in the extended top 100 list. But don’t panic – the eatery hasn’t gone downhill.

5 days ago | theolivepress.es | Dilip Kuner

IT sounded like the ultimate wellness hack for the high-flying elite – a smoothie that could fuel a finance bro’s 3am club cameo AND his 6am gym session. But Spanish authorities have juiced the dream, uncovering a cocaine lab in Valencia where criminals were extracting cocaine base hidden inside drums of frozen guava pulp – perhaps the ultimate fruit smoothie for a certain type of health conscious junkie. In a sting operation codenamed ‘I.

5 days ago | theolivepress.es | Dilip Kuner

SPANISH boffins will have a new best friend as they decommission a nuclear power station – a robotic dog called Spot. Developed by Boston Dynamics, it is being adapted for nuclear decommissioning work at Spain’s Santa Maria de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant. The plant was shut down in December 2012 and defuelled shortly after. It is currently undergoing a two-phase decommissioning process managed by Enresa, the Spanish national radioactive waste management company, expected to last ten years.

5 days ago | theolivepress.es | Dilip Kuner

SPAIN’S war on Class-A drug smuggling has taken a high-tech leap. Traffickers, never short of cunning, have embraced drones, narco-submarines, and hidden tunnels, pushing law enforcement to the limits of innovation in their fight to keep narcotics off the streets. This includes a sophisticated drone network recently dismantled in Algeciras, with custom-made UAVs ferrying up to 10 kilograms of hashish at a time from Morocco.

5 days ago | theolivepress.es | Dilip Kuner

IT all kicked off a year ago at the glorious Euros 2024. A dream final bringing together Spain and England, the Clubhouse couldn’t have asked for a better month to launch. Guaranteeing hundreds of supporters from every European country during the four week tournament, keeping these two most important nations in to the end was a dream come true.