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A Spanish lawmaker on Tuesday angrily rejected the United States' apology for the FBI's using a photo of him to create a poster showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.
Spain's Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of euros (dollars) in prize money on the country's capital Tuesday.
The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.
Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.
Relatives of men believed to have been executed and buried along with the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca said Thursday they are delighted that work has begun to exhume the civil-war era grave.
After losing out on the 2012 Olympics, Madrid believes it is now the perfect choice to host the games in 2016.
A plastic surgeon in Spain was convicted of negligence in the death of Nigeria's former first lady and was given a suspended sentence of a year in jail, a court said Tuesday.
Spain adjusted its anti-doping laws Friday to comply with international regulations and boost Madrid's chances of staging the 2016 Olympics.
Berlin, reunited as one city after decades of division during the Cold War, won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias prize on Thursday for its contribution to promoting peace and harmony.
A suspected member of the armed Basque group ETA was deported from Mexico on Thursday and arrested in Spain, where he is wanted for allegedly killing five Spanish police officers and a pregnant wife of one of the officers.
A forest fire on the Canary Island of La Palma was brought under control Tuesday and another that raged for two weeks in Spain's northern Catalonia region has been extinguished, an emergency official said.
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica said Thursday its second quarter net profit fell 6 percent from a year earlier due to higher taxes and lower revenues in recession-stricken Spain and Europe, offsetting a strong performance from the company's Latin American division.
Spain's Santander, the euro zone's largest bank, said Wednesday that net profit fell 4 percent in the second quarter as an increase in revenues was wiped out by a surge in bad loans amid the economic crisis.
Spain's foreign minister made a historic border crossing to the disputed British colony of Gibraltar on Tuesday, the first by a Spanish Cabinet minister since the Rock was ceded almost 300 years ago.
It's no secret that overfishing has driven many tuna species including the iconic blue fin to the brink of extinction.
Two American engineers who were instrumental in developing e-mail and mobile phones on Wednesday won one of Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias awards for revolutionizing the way people communicate.
Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream — or nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer programs.
A nearly 100-year-old Mexican university was awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities on Wednesday in recognition of its role in providing Latin America with outstanding intellectuals and scientists.
Muslims still face substantial discrimination in Europe, especially at work, and many fail to report racist incidents because of a lack of trust in authorities, a European Union human rights agency said Thursday.
Recording companies went to court Tuesday claiming euro13 million ($17.5 million) from a Spaniard they accuse of profiting from computer programs he designed to allow free music downloads over the Internet.
Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work or stroll through the park. A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.
A Spanish court convicted four men on Tuesday of terrorism offenses in connection with recruiting suicide attackers for Iraq, but acquitted 10 others for lack of evidence.
Spain said Monday it plans to make the contraceptive morning-after pill available over the counter in pharmacies without prescription within three months.
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.
Lance Armstrong's team manager is confident a broken collarbone won't prevent the cycling great from riding in the Giro d'Italia or Tour de France.
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