Sources: BBC
Firefighters fight wildfires across Catalonia and Navarre, Spain, as temperatures reach 40 °C, complicating the efforts of the firefighters. 2022-06-16
Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. 2022-05-6
The Spanish Congress of Deputies votes to extend the state of emergency for another six months as the Health Ministry reports a record 23,580 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 1.16 million. 2020-10-29
The state of emergency in Spain officially finishes after more than 100 days. 2020-06-21
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
Pro-independence Catalan leaders vowed to continue their efforts to secede from Spain, defying a ruling by the Madrid-based constitutional court that suspended a law defining a path for independence. 2015-11-11
Spanish King Juan Carlos is criticised for going on a hunting trip to Botswana while his country is in an economic crisis. 2012-04-15
Voters in Catalonia, Spain, go to the polls for parliamentary elections. 2010-11-28
Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares says the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) use of his photo in its "shameless" digital manipulation of Osama Bin Laden for a wanted poster, has left him insecure and worried about travelling to the United States in future. 2010-01-16
Spain's government sees a video showing three aid workers who have been held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since November 2009. 2010-01-15