Spaniards and holidaymakers sweltering in the summer heat might not be too impressed, but desperate times — and a deep recession — call for desperate measures. The Spanish Cabinet agreed yesterday to reduce energy consumption by limiting the use of air conditioning.
Madrid has decided to establish minimum and maximum temperatures for public buildings and thus [...]

A West Saharan activist on hunger strike at a Spanish airport has rejected the country´s offer of a Spanish passport in a bid to help her return home, the activist´s lawyer said Sunday.
Aminatou Haidar has been at Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands refusing food for two weeks, ever since she was expelled from her [...]

An 84 year old woman was been killed on Saturday, after she was hit by a patrol of the Guardia Civil in Madrid.
The victim, María Carmen Moreno, was run over on the sidewalk in one of the busiest streets of the capital, Bravo Murillo.
The incident occurred about 16:40 in the intersection of Bravo Murillo and [...]

A Guardia Civil Guard officer was killed when he was run over by a vehicle, whilst attending a victim of a previous crash.
The accident occurred in the town of Palacios de Goda, in Avila.
The deceased and another colleague were caring for a person who was injured in an accident.
One officer was killed, the [...]

Pirates attacked a Spanish fishing vessel Sunday in the Indian Ocean with small arms and a rocket-propelled grenade but private security guards aboard the ship drove them off with gunfire, officials said.
The attempted hijacking came less than two weeks after another Spanish trawler, the Alakrana, was released by Somali pirates who had held it and [...]

A card payment service commonly used by customers to avoid high transaction charges when booking flights is being phased out by two major providers.
Customers who pay by Visa Electron are not charged transaction fees by airlines such as Ryanair, Aer Lingus, BMIbaby, Easyjet and Flybe.
Abbey and Travelex have told BBC Radio 4´s Money Box their [...]

I should have seen the warning signs when I walked into a branch of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo bank the day after my mother's funeral in Spain. I asked the manager to settle the €4,000 bill for the funeral from my mother´s account.
The reply was short and simple: “No. The account is blocked.”
“But [...]

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