Spain's Health Ministry confirmed the country's first case of swine flu on Monday and said another 20 people are suspected of having the disease. It was the first confirmed swine flu case in Europe and the first outside of North America.
Spain's Royal Palace says Princess Cristina and her family are moving to Washington, D.C., because her husband has accepted a job there with telecommunications company Telefonica.
Spain grabbed world headlines a decade ago by indicting Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and has since probed alleged atrocities as far away as Tibet and Rwanda.
French police arrested the suspected leader of Basque separatist group ETA as part of joint cross-border raids, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday. He was among nine alleged ETA members arrested in recent days.
Three suspected members of the Basque separatist organization ETA have been arrested in southern France, including one considered to be the group's military leader, officials said Saturday.
"Gone With the Wind" actor Leslie Howard will be honored as a war hero with a monument in Spain near where his plane was shot down by Nazi fighter pilots during World War II, a historical association said Saturday.
A Spanish man accused of using veterinary equipment to perform cosmetic surgery is in the doghouse. Catalonian regional police said they arrested the 63-year-old Barcelona native for allegedly practicing medicine without a license in filthy conditions at his home.
Spain should not investigate allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Spanish prosecutors formally recommended Friday.
The armed Basque separatist group ETA considered assassinating King Juan Carlos by attacking his plane or helicopter with a surface-to-air missile, Spain's interior minister said Monday.
Corin Tellado, a well-known Spanish author of more than 4,000 romance novels, died Saturday while celebrating the Easter holidays with her family. She was 81.
Police officers overpowered a man suspected of being a master forger for Basque separatist group ETA after he drew his .357 Magnum revolver on a crowded Paris railway platform, Spain's Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Spain's prime minister shook up his government Tuesday by appointing six new Cabinet ministers, including a new economy minister to deal with the country's worsening financial crisis.
Two Spanish Holocaust survivors testified Monday about their Nazi concentration camp ordeals as a judge began gathering evidence in a lawsuit urging the United States to extradite four alleged former death camp guards for genocide.
Six former Bush administration officials accused in a Spanish complaint of sanctioning the torture of terror suspects should come to Spain to face justice, a human rights lawyer urged Monday.
A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.
If he’s a pirate who’s made off with a half-billion-dollar booty haul, as Spain says he is, Greg Stemm didn’t look the part. Sporting a closely trimmed gray beard and wearing a sport coat with a black shirt and matching slacks, he never once said “Arrrr” or “matey.” He didn’t even have an eye patch or a parrot perched on his tweed-upholstered shoulder.
A Spanish restaurant grappling with hard economic times is wooing diners by letting them pay whatever they want for its daily special.
Lance Armstrong will race against the past two Tour de France winners when the five-day Vuelta of Castilla and Leon begins Monday.
In the good old days of a very recent past, construction worker Antonio Montoya could afford two cars and a nice duplex for his family of six, with a sunny patio and pet canaries singing away.
The United States is issuing unusually strong criticism of NATO ally Spain by expressing surprise at its decision to pull out its troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Three Iberian lynx cubs have been born in a nature reserve in southern Spain, officials said Friday.
Spain will withdraw its hundreds of troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo in the next few months, an official said Thursday.
Hollywood heartthrob Antonio Banderas has joined a growing number of celebrities whose passion for wine has led to ownership of Spanish vineyards, his winery co-owners say.
Spanish government plans to ease restrictions on abortion have triggered a new dispute with the Roman Catholic Church, with the clergy launching a campaign suggesting animals are better protected than unborn babies.
A Spanish official says a pregnant Iberian lynx, the world's most endangered cat, has been found dead in a nature reserve.