Sources: BBC
The death toll from the floods in Spain, primarily in the Valencian Community, increases to 161, with dozens of others still missing. 2024-10-31
Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello announces that three US citizens, two Spanish citizens, and a Czech citizen have been arrested and are accused of planning to "generate violence" and "destabilize" Venezuela, with the Spanish citizens also accused of being Spanish secret service workers. 2024-09-14
Two people are killed and twelve others are injured in a fire in a restaurant in Madrid, Spain. 2023-04-22
Spain has confirmed the diagnoses of seven monkeypox cases, with many others still being tested, amid an unusual outbreak in Europe. 2022-05-19
Spain reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a 44-year-old man who travelled from Brazil to Madrid on January 29 and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-02-5
The Department of Health and Social Care reports 737 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the UK's death toll to 10,612. The UK becomes the fourth country in Europe, after Italy, Spain and France, to surpass 10,000 deaths from COVID-19. 2020-04-12
The White House postpones a state visit from Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia due to the coronavirus pandemic. 2020-03-18
Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport Màxim Huerta resigns after tax issues, becoming the minister with the shortest time in office in Spain. 2018-06-13
"Nature" publishes research from The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia at the Glorieta de la Astronomía of Granada, Spain, describing the discovery that a ring system orbits the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Haumea. 2017-10-11
A Spanish priest dies of the virus in Spain despite being treated with ZMapp, an experimental treatment. 2014-08-12