Spain
Same-sex marriage row gets Darwinian in Spain
Interior minister declares "the survival of the species" is at stake.
Spain's celebrity restorer shows her own work
Giles Tremlett MADRID: Fame has come late to Cecilia Gimenez, an 80-year-old Spanish painter whose disastrous attempt at restoring a 19th-century Ecce Homo on the walls of her local church spread her name around...
Spain PM rejects calls for his resignation
Daniel Silva Spanish PM has dismissed calls for his resignation over a case of alleged corruption.
Spain cruise lifeboat accident kills five
Arturo Rodriguez A lifeboat dropped 20 metres into the water when a cable snapped, killing five.
Catalonia edges towards Spain split
Ben Sills MADRID: Pro-independence parties in Catalonia won Sunday's regional vote, strengthening a drive for a referendum on secession in defiance of the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy.
Suicide prompts Spain to halt home evictions
Ben Sills MADRID: The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has announced a temporary halt to evictions of vulnerable families as his government devises measures to help people stay in their homes after a...
Bardem wades into Spain's economic woes
Giles Tremlett MADRID: As THE cyberterrorist Raoul Silva in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, the Spanish actor Javier Bardem makes an ideal celluloid bad guy.
Modern-day Robin Hood champions Spain's struggling poor
IF THIS was revolution, it was a remarkably calm affair. When the man sometimes billed as Spain's most dangerous left-wing politician, Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo, led his utopian army of marchers...
Spain crisis eats into the school lunch box
Fiona Govan MADRID: Spain is to charge parents for sending their children to school with packed lunches. A daily fee of up to €3 ($3.50) will be introduced when the new term begins next month.
Divisions in Spain with fresh call to exit euro
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The regional leader of Asturias has become Spain's first major figure to call for exit from the euro.
The bubble of Spain's recent 'golden age' seems about ready to burst
Nick Meo, Valencia The large cities spent billions on lavish buildings in the good times, but debt now threatens jobs and the future for many.
Merkel digs in as Spain, Cyprus hint at collapse
Madrid Spain's ruling party signals for the first time that the country may need a European rescue to shore up its banking system.
A lifeline for Spain
Giles Tremlett The first planks in a dramatic bailout for Spain will be bolted together this weekend, with a final figure on the size of the rescue package to be ready within a week, according to sources in...
Spain takes fight to UN
Madrid Country to insist that talks are opened on the sovereignty of Gibraltar.
Marching miners protest Spain's austerity plans
Ben Sills Union leaders aimed to draw more than 100,000 protesters to a rally in the capital.
Remains to be seen? Spain at odds over monument to Franco
Elodie Cuzin Francisco Franco should be reburied elsewhere, a commission has recommended.
Next up: Spain's socialists to pay price for debt crisis
Karen Kissane SPAIN is expected to throw out its socialist government in national elections tomorrow making it the last of the five European crisis-cases to oust an administration that has presided over a spiral...
Age no barrier to Spain's 103-year-old Senate hopeful
Giles Tremlett It is an unlikely age to step into the political fray, but 103-year-old Moises Broggi believes the state of the world merits a final burst of activism.
Complex to shut as big projects end their reign in Spain
Giles Tremlett A dazzling $A60.8 million arts centre in the northern Spanish city of Aviles is to close after six months amid political squabbling as the country asks itself what to do with a glut of glittering new...
Italy and Spain add to debt woes
Karen Kissane LONDON: Europe has lurched back into financial crisis as Spain and Italy near the red line that triggered emergency bailouts for Ireland, Greece and Portugal.
