Mystery blackout forces Madrid off the grid

There was a sigh of collective relief that things were grinding back to normality – but still no clarity was shed. — Bloomberg

MADRID: At 12.33pm, in the span of five seconds almost two-thirds of Spain disappeared off the grid. It wasn’t just that the lights suddenly went out.

In the age of cashless payments and with virtually everything on your smartphone, millions rediscovered the joys of analog technology.