Sources: BBC News
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
Fourteen workers at the Tenerife South Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, are arrested on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage. Police seize allegedly stolen items worth almost €2 million. 2023-12-15
At least seven people are injured in a suspected gas explosion at a Japanese restaurant in Tarragona, Spain. 2022-10-16
Guatemala reports the country's first death from the coronavirus, an 85-year-old man who had recently returned from Spain. 2020-03-15
The GSM Association decides to cancel this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, amid coronavirus concerns. The event would have been held between February 24 and 27. This is the first time that the mobile communications trade show has been cancelled. 2020-02-12
A pregnant woman is reported with the Zika virus in Spain - the first case in Europe. 2016-02-4
The Catalan Parliament passes a resolution calling for the Catalonian region to secede from Spain. Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy says his government will seek to invalidate the motion with an appeal to the Constitutional Court in the coming days. 2015-11-9
Three Spanish airmen are injured in a grenade attack in Djibouti. 2014-05-25
Luka Bojović, an alleged member of the Zemun Clan, is arrested in Valencia, Spain, for involvement in over 20 murders in Serbia, the Netherlands and Spain, including the killing of former Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Đinđić. 2012-02-10
Thousands of people protest in Spain against a raid by Moroccan authorities in a camp in the disputed Western Sahara. 2010-11-14