Sources: BBC
The Spanish State Meteorological Agency announces that 2025 was Spain's hottest summer since records began in 1961, averaging a temperature of 24.2 C, and surpassing 2022's record of 24.1 C. The record-high temperatures caused three heatwaves over the summer, including the 16-day heatwave in August which sparked wildfires. 2025-09-16
A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes into the Hudson River off Lower Manhattan, New York, United States, killing Siemens Spain CEO Agustín Escobar, his family of four, and the pilot. 2025-04-10
More than 100 homes on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands are destroyed by lava flows, and 5,000 people are evacuated. Several schools on the island suspend classes. 2021-09-20
Spain reaches a target of fully vaccinating 70% of the population. 2021-09-1
A court in Sicily orders former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to stand trial accused of dereliction of duty and kidnapping for his role in a standoff with a Spanish-flagged migrant rescue ship operated by Proactiva Open Arms that he refused to allow to dock for nineteen days in 2019. A court order allowed the ship to dock after some migrants jumped overboard. 2021-04-17
Europol reports a total of more than 10,000 assault rifles and 400 shelling weapons were seized in northern Spain during an anti-trafficking operation in January. 2017-03-14
Several Zika virus cases have been reported in Denmark, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. 2016-01-27
Three Spanish airmen are injured in a grenade attack in Djibouti. 2014-05-25
More than 270 people are hospitalised after an E. coli outbreak in Germany, thought to have originated from Spanish cucumbers. 2011-05-27
69-year-old Spanish tenor opera star Plácido Domingo returns to the stage at Milan's Teatro alla Scala weeks after colorectal cancer surgery. 2010-04-18