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 [...]
France has declared a national disaster after violent storms battered parts of the country leaving death and destruction in their wake.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the move would release funds to help communities rebuild.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived at the storm-battered Atlantic coast, where at least 47 people died.
As the storm swept north-eastwards across [...]
A British couple was killed in the collapse of a country house, apparently caused by heavy rains, in southern Spain, local officials said Tuesday. The man and woman, aged 64 and 63 respectively, were visiting another British couple when the room they were in collapsed in Rubite near Granada on Monday, emergency services said.
The owner [...]
Two teenagers who have reportedly confessed to the murder of an East Riding grandfather at his Spanish retreat could escape justice.
Peter Cockshutt, 71, of Brandesburton, was found dead in a pool of blood at his villa in Costa Silencio, Tenerife, on Saturday night, in an apparent burglary gone wrong.
The retired electrician and grandfather-of-nine had been [...]
Lita Broadhurst, 48, threw herself off a fourth floor balcony on Friday morning after leaving an apparent suicide note for her teenage children on her Facebook homepage.
The expat English teacher, who lived in Garrucha near Almeria on Spain´s southern coast, blamed a British associate as the source of her misery.
She jumped to her death hours [...]
Peter Cockshutt, 71, was found dead in a pool of blood at his Spanish villa near the popular resort of Playa de las Americas on Monday afternoon.
He had been stabbed twice in the chest and once in the leg in a frenzied attack. Local police believe he may have disturbed burglars at his home based [...]
Six people were killed and 10 injured, including one seriously, when a fire broke out at a retirement home in Spain’s southern city of Seville.
The fire broke out around midnight on Monday in a third-storey apartment and spread throughout the building before being put out by firefighters.
Three women and two men were among the dead, [...]
The Air Force plane carrying the body of the dead Spanish soldier ,Kuishpe Christian Javier Aguirre, aged 24, arrived at the Zaragoza Air Base at 5:00 am this morning according to Defence sources.
Escorted by a guard of honour, the coffin containing the remains of the soldier was taken from the aircraft, carried on the shoulders [...]