Spain

The rapper’s arrest has provoked civil unrest across the country.

With new album The Prettiest Curse, the effervescent Madrid band gift us a much-needed indie-rock holiday. They had no choice: “We’re Spaniards – we love the summer and we love the heat.”

Penitents take part in the Virgen del Carmen brotherhood procession during Malaga’s Carmen day celebrations on 16th July. Every year, an image of the Virgin, the patron saint of seafarers, is placed on a boat, which sails down the coast.