Classic sitcom “The Golden Girls” is getting a Spanish makeover with some of Spain´s most acclaimed veteran thesps poised to play the female leads.
Disney Media Networks has teamed up with leading Spanish producer Jose Luis Moreno and Luis Balaguer´s Miami-based production, talent management and marketing company Latin World Entertainment to co-produce the skein, titled “Las [...]

A mother bled to death when she fell over her handbag on to a glass in a Spanish bar, a coroner heard.
Expatriate Sally Feeley was enjoying a late-night hot chocolate with friends when she tripped over her handbag in a freak accident in Malaga.
The 42-year-old hairdresser fell back onto a table with one glass, which [...]

On the second of May (Spanish: Dos de Mayo), 1808, the people of Madrid rebelled against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking a brutal repression by the French Imperial forces and triggering the Spanish War of Independence.
The city had been under the occupation of Napoleon´s army since March 23 of the same [...]

The city of Madrid Monday celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Gran Via, its emblematic thoroughfare known as the Spanish capital´s “Broadway” and where Ernest Hemingway lived during the civil war.
Spain´s King Juan Carlos and his wife Queen Sofia unveiled a bronze and aluminium plaque on the 1.3-kilometre avenue to mark the occasion.
Traffic on the [...]

On this day in 2004, 191 people are killed and nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area train stations during a busy morning rush hour. The bombs were later found to have been detonated by mobile phones. The attacks, the deadliest against civilians on European soil since the 1988 Lockerbie [...]

Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. On this day,10th March in 1496, he set sail from Hispaniola, heading to Spain.
He was carrying 225 Europeans and a large number of natives he had enslaved, but very little gold.
He sailed with a bitter, heavy heart.

After successfully capturing British positions in Louisiana and Mississippi, Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish forces in North America, turns his attention to the British-occupied city of Pensacola, Florida, on this day in 1781. General Galvez and a Spanish naval force of more than 40 ships and 3,500 men landed at Santa [...]

On the 7th March, 1793, France declared war on Spain after Spanish forces invaded the French-occupied territories of Roussillon and Navarre on the border between the two countries.
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European [...]