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
Footballer Gerard Piqué is placed under official investigation for his alleged involvement in illegal payments in the relocation of the Supercopa de España from Spain to Saudi Arabia. 2024-05-30
Archaeologists discover one of the largest megalithic sites in Europe on a farm in southern Spain. The site dates back 7,000 years and contains more than 500 standing stones. 2022-08-17
In Spain, over 650 people in eight villages are evacuated after wildfires originating in the Sierra de Culebra mountain range grew to 9,000 hectares amidst a heat wave in Europe. 2022-06-17
One person is killed and 85 others are injured after a cargo train collides with a passenger train in Catalonia, Spain. 2022-05-16
A 33-year-old Yemeni man stabbed and wounded three Spanish theatre actors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Is not known if the attack is in protest against the war in Yemen or for the attacker's opposition to Saudi Arabia’s growing entertainment industry. 2019-11-11
A large scale international cyber-attack using the WannaCry ransomware package disrupts computer and telephone systems in thousands of cases across 99 countries. Affected organisations include: England's NHS, with doctors reporting messages demanding money; MegaFon and Sberbank in Russia; Telefónica, Iberdrola, and Gas Natural in Spain; and FedEx. 2017-05-12
Spain commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of its most famous author Miguel de Cervantes. 2016-04-23
Leaders from Germany, France and the United Kingdom hold an emergency meeting at the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit after panic selling of Irish debt spreads to Spain and Portugal. 2010-11-12