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It has been confirmed that the human remains entombed in Sevilla cathedral definitely belonged to Christopher Columbus. José Antonio Lorente, who led the investigation team from the Genetic Identification Laboratory,...

The 95 passengers on last Sunday night's Spanair flight JKK648 from Barcelona to Santiago de Compostela took a while to get over their surprise at landing in Sevilla.

The Spanish Interior ministry has ordered a tightening of airport security on all flights bound for the UK or USA as a precautionary measure in light of yesterday's terror alert at London's Heathrow airport,...

The mayor of El Ejido has announced that he has received news from the organisers of tomorrow night's Rolling Stones concert that it has had to be cancelled as a result of Mick Jagger's voice problem.

Gustavo de Aristegui, Foreign Affairs spokesman for the conservative Partido Popular, yesterday admitted that he considered that a fundamentalist website has issued death threats against him.

The Guardia Civil in Torrevieja have arrested a gang of four individuals, one of whom is a serving soldier, for carrying out an assault on a local businesswoman.

José María Aznar has said that while he has heard Pope Benedict XVI being asked to apologise for a speech about the Islamic faith he made in Germany last weekend, he has not heard "any Muslims apologising to me...

A laboratory in Algete (Madrid) is investigating a possible case of avian flu after a dead duck showing similar symptoms was found in the Albufera natural park south of Valencia.

Noisy they may be, colourful they certainly are, and anyone who has lived in Spain for more than a few months cannot have missed the country’s vivacious, energetic fiestas.Although they range from mildly bizarre to...

The owners of six homes in Villamarxant found themselves in the middle of a torrent yesterday morning following the recent heavy rains. Members of the local police force arrived at the scene, but could do nothing to...

The recent deaths of nine vultures in the Torremiro park near Morella is at the centre of a storm of controversy. Members of the 'Eolicas-No' collective stated that the birds were "sliced to death" by...

Spanish police arrested nine alleged members of a gang run by a Georgian national, in a major crackdown on organized Russian and Georgian criminal gangs.