Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of characters facing turning points, died Friday. He was 89.
Delibes, who had been fighting cancer of the colon for several years, died at his home in the north central city of Valladolid shortly [...]
Around 105 people in the province of Girona have suffered carbon monoxide poisoning through using gas heaters in a poor condition to warm up their homes. One woman has died as a result. Some of the worst snow storms in history have left most of Catalunya without electricity, even certain hotels in the city of [...]
The President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, participated in an institutional event to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March that was also attended by the Minister for Equality, Bibiana Aído.
Mr Rodríguez Zapatero stressed that the objectives established by the Spanish Government during its Presidency of the European Union include achieving a European [...]
After the EU-Morocco Summit, the President of the Government met with the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, the Government representative to the region and other members of the Andalusian Government to receive more details on the “serious situation” caused by the flooding and the seemingly unending intense rainfall battering Andalusia.
At a joint press [...]
A Spanish animal welfare organization reported that “A couple of dogs gave a lesson in fidelity after Dulcinea, a mongrel dog, watched for more than fifteen days, the corpse of another dog run over on a highway near Madrid.”
Dulcinea, who is about one year old, was risking her life amid the vehicles to protect her [...]
Spain’s Air traffic controllers have an application before the High Court against Royal Decree
The Union of the Air Traffic Controllers Association (USCA) has filed a lawsuit this morning resulting from the change of working conditions of controllers by Royal Decree launched by the Government on February 5.
Specifically, USCA said in a statement that it considered [...]
Police swooped on a gang of burglars targeting holiday homes on Spain´s Costa Blanca – and found they had arrested a Serbian war criminal accused of more than 100 killings.
“Monster of Grbavica” Veselin Vlahovic, 40, was in a top security jail in Madrid last night after a judge ruled that proceedings should start for his [...]
Spanish builder Ferrovial, which owns British airports operator BAA, said Friday it signed a contract to build a new terminal at London´s Heathrow airport together with Britain´s Laing O´Rourke for 812 million pounds (900 million euros).
The new terminal will replace Terminal 2 and the Queens building which date from the 1950s and it will have [...]