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Spain's economy contracted by 0.3 percent during the fourth quarter, according to official figures released Wednesday, edging the country closer to a new recession as it deals with huge levels of unemployment and painful austerity cuts.
European leaders will try to come up with ways to boost growth despite steep budget cuts across the continent when they meet in Brussels on Monday.
Spain's Parliament approved the new conservative government's first austerity measures Wednesday, which aim to rein in the country's swollen deficit with euro8.9 billion ($11.5 billion) in spending cuts.
Authorities are investigating the death of a U.S. student in Barcelona, but at this point do not suspect foul play, Spanish police said Tuesday.
Spain will slide back into recession early next year with the current quarter and the first of 2012 both registering negative growth, new Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said Monday.
Spain's next prime minister is a lusterless career politician who thrives on ambiguity — rarely revealing what he thinks.
Campaigning started Friday for Spain's Nov. 20 general elections with a new poll indicating Spaniards will severely punish the governing Socialist party and hand the opposition conservatives a major victory.
Spanish bank BBVA said Wednesday its net profits in the third quarter slumped by 29.5 percent owing to lower revenue in its domestic market and liquidity stress caused by the sovereign debt crisis.
The number of people filing for unemployment benefits in Spain shot up by nearly 100,000 in September, a surprisingly big increase even in a month that tends to be bad for workers as vacation season contracts expire.
One of Spain's richest women, who is set to marry for a third time at 85, acknowledges she had to overcome opposition among her children to the wedding but insists she still controls her immense wealth.
Spain's prime minister and the opposition leader agreed Tuesday to work on amending the Constitution to limit the government deficit, an effort to allay fears the country may need help handling its debt.
The European Central Bank pulled Italy and Spain back from immediate financial disaster on Monday, driving down the countries' dangerously high interest rates by buying up billions of euros worth of their bonds on the open market.
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica saw net profit slump 27 percent in the second-quarter as falling revenue in the domestic market offset a far stronger performance in Latin America.
Spain's Banco Santander said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit fell 38 percent as growth in Latin America was offset by weaker results in crisis-hit Europe and a one-time charge in Britain.
Thousands of protesters angry about Spain's brutal economic woes once again filled Madrid's downtown Sol square Sunday after many spent weeks marching hundreds of kilometers (miles) from far-flung cities across Spain.
The glittering buildings rise up from Spain's arid central plain.
Spain's exports of fruit and vegetables have ground to a halt, causing major financial losses for farmers, due to Germany's now-retracted accusation that Spanish cucumbers were the source of the E. coli outbreak that killed more than a dozen people.
Riot police firing rubber bullets and wielding truncheons clashed Friday with protesters as authorities cleared away a makeshift camp set up as part of a Spain-wide demonstration against the country's economic problems. More than 100 people were injured.
Spain's government said Thursday that it has received a message from Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi proposing an immediate cease-fire in his country's conflict with rebels.
A Spanish court official says the final autopsy report on the body of the U.S. exchange student found dead in a river suggests an accidental death.
Spanish bank BBVA said Thursday its first-quarter profits dropped 7.3 percent as a poor business climate in its home market offset a marked improvement in Mexico.
Their ranks include a plastic surgeon, a prison guard and a high school principal. All are Spanish, but have little else in common except this: They want old Internet references about them that pop up in Google searches wiped away.
A man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend used a webcam to show her body to his father, who notified authorities before the young man could harm his girlfriend's younger sister, police said Tuesday.
A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest warrant seeking the extradition of a former Guatemalan soldier suspected of involvement in a brutal 1982 massacre during Guatemala's civil war, a court official said Monday.
On stage, she cuts a striking figure. It isn't her trendy clothes or Gypsy earrings, but her flamenco guitar: it's a man's instrument in a man's world. Spaniards are even more startled to discover Caroline Plante is a French-speaking Canadian.
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