Xavier Vilató and Paloma Picasso in Malaga, where they visited the sculpture to her grandfather.
Xavier Vilató and Paloma Picasso in Malaga, where they visited the sculpture to her grandfather. (Marilú Báez)

Paloma Picasso visits Malaga to see sculpture of "Grandpa Pepe": José Ruiz Blasco

The painter’s youngest daughter returned to the city to meet her grandfather “for the first time” - the forerunner of the great 20th-century artist and the patriarch of an entire artistic dynasty

Paco Griñán Málaga
The mayor of Mijas, Ana Mata, together with part of the human and material resources that will make up the device.
The mayor of Mijas, Ana Mata, together with part of the human and material resources that will make up the device. (SUR)

Mijas activates its beach rescue service with more than 50 lifeguards

The deployment covers the municipality's 16 beaches throughout the day and includes an ambulance, a buggy equipped for medical care and a rescue drone

José Carlos García Mijas

The Bottom Line

The Pope bets against the bullies

Columnist Troy Nahumko looks at how the Catholic Church, long a shrewd player of the odds, may finally be learning to back a more compassionate horse

Troy Nahumko

The Music Maker

Meat me in the summer

When the whole village fires up the grill for the first barbecue Sunday of the year, columnist Peter Edgerton finds himself the sole conscientious objector - armed with a cheese sandwich and a convincing excuse

Peter Edgerton

The Euro Zone

Loud and clear

Columnist Mark Nayler looks at how two Madrid demonstrations in one weekend laid bare the mounting pressures threatening to bring down Pedro Sánchez's government

Mark Nayler

Food and drink

Home distilling

"Looked at coolly, there appears to be zero logic in a justice system that turns a blind eye to home brewing or making fruit liquors in our kitchens but considers distilled 'alcohol' a devil's brew," comments columnist Andrew J. Linn

Andrew J. Linn