SPAIN

Thousands of Spaniards packed Madrid's landmark Plaza Mayor square on Thursday to demand higher pay in the first mass protest since the start of the cost of living crisis.

Migrant rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday that it had called on the governments of France, Greece and Spain to help find a port for 234 people rescued while trying to reach Europe, after Italy and Malta failed to respond.

A 61-year-old UK woman lost all her limbs after contracting a common urinary tract infection (UTI) while holidaying in Spain in 2017.

Barcelona on Thursday forecast profits of 274 million euros (270.7 million dollars) this season and record revenues of 1.255 billion euros.

Dreamt up in the 1960s to attract tourists, Spain's three-course "menu del dia", or set lunch menu, has long been seen as the best deal in town.

Spain is planning to relocate the remains of two far-right figures linked to its 1936-1939 civil war who are buried in grandiose sites, a minister said Thursday.

Ukraine to join Spain and Portugal in 2030 World Cup bid

The Bank of Spain on Wednesday significantly cut its GDP growth forecast for next year due to the impact of higher energy prices in Europe and lower consumer spending.

A slowdown in Spain's economy, caused partly by the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will force Spanish banks to increase provisions to cover potential losses, Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Tuesday.

Pictures emerged of the actress spending time with her daughter at a playground in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

The Portuguese captain was left with a bloody face after a collision with the Czech keeper.

With the country hit by a long and brutal heatwave this summer, the water temperature in the Ebro Delta is touching 30 degrees Celsius.

A UN committee has found that Spain violated the political rights of four former Catalan separatist leaders by suspending them from public duties prior to their convictions over the region's 2017 bid for independence, it said on Wednesday.

After struggling a bit with the ticket machine at Madrid's grand 19th century Atocha railway station, 26-year-old Jennifer Bernard Quintana and her sister became the happy owners of free travel passes valid from Thursday.

The drought in Spain has not only caused water bodies to almost run dry, but has also forced several historic monuments to re-emerge.

Spain wants to become the new gateway for gas through an ambitious trans-Pyrenees pipeline and is hoping supply-starved Germany will pressure a reluctant France.

Istanbul was supposed to host the final in 2020 and again in 2021, but on each occasion, UEFA moved the game to Portugal due to pandemic-related restrictions.

A major wildfire in eastern Spain that has destroyed vast swathes of land gathered pace overnight after flaring up again despite heavy rainfall.

Massive wildfires in Portugal and Spain were largely under control Thursday after forcing thousands from their homes and destroying large swathes of land.

A man who was filmed stealing on live TV on a beach in Barcelona has been arrested by the police.

A flock of sheep shelter from the midday sun under the gothic arches of a medieval bridge flooded in 1956 to create the Cijara reservoir in central Spain.