s car industry showed further signs of improvement in December, with sales of new cars growing at the fastest pace in four years, although sales in 2013 overall were the lowest in 18 years. A total of 906,294 new cars were sold last month, 13.3% more than in December 2012. It was the fourth month in a row in which car sales rose on an annual basis. Sales were down 1.7% over 2013 as a whole, however,...
African and Syrian migrants gravitate to the Morocco-Melilla border. Once they have found a chance to cross most risk the perilous boat journey to gain access to mainland Europe ...
ve sourced 100 years of data to see how the France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK have changed since 1914. The 15 legacies still with us today Instinctively, we know that Europe has undergone vast social and economic change since 1914. But what does that change look like when it's quantified? Together with Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Paîs, La Stampa, Gazeta Wyborcza and Le Monde we've attempted to find...
s famous El Gordo Christmas lottery prompts row over who should get the cash An effort to spread a little cheer in northern Spain has instead pitted hundreds of small-town mayors against each other and sparked a debate that has gone all the way to the office of the national public prosecutor. Vicente Producciones Artísticas, a company that organises local fiestas, marked the 2013 holidays the same...
Montesinos Jumilla's Carlos Henrique Ribeiro scores an overhead goal from his own half in the Spanish futsal leage ...
s daughter under investigation, a poll finds only 41% of Spanish back the monarchy in general The news that the Infanta Cristina has been formally made a suspect in the investigation into her husband's business dealings represents another swingeing blow to an already beleaguered royal family – one that, more perhaps than any other in Europe, needs to be above reproach if it is to survive. However much...
s youngest daughter is latest blow to battered image of Spanish royal family The Spanish royal family was battered by further scandal on Tuesday when the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos was named as a formal suspect in a long-running corruption inquiry. Princess Cristina, 48, has been summoned to answer allegations of money laundering and tax evasion. The princess would be the first member of...
BusinessGreen: Surge in wind power and hydropower drives emissions down by more than 23% James Murray ...
The Christian holiday of Epiphany marks the visit of the three kings to the infant Jesus, according to the western church. To the eastern Orthodox church, it marks the baptism of Christ. No matter the meaning, both branches of Christianity celebrate the day with gusto ...
s popularity rating at record low amid corruption investigation into daughter and son-in-law Almost two-thirds of Spaniards want their king to abdicate and hand the crown to his son, according to a poll released on Sunday, the monarch's birthday. King Juan Carlos, who has been on the throne for 38 years, was once one of the world's best-loved sovereigns, respected for his common touch and for helping...
ancient foe is back in numbers – and now packs are breeding a mere 40 miles from Madrid A twig snaps, a crow calls, but nothing moves in the dense pine forests of Spain's Guadarrama mountains. Vultures and eagles soar over the snowcapped peaks and wild boars roam the valleys below, as they have for centuries. But for the farmers who work this land, a threatening and worrying comeback is taking place...
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Woman and eight-year-old daughter taken to separate hospitals with burns following blast in Playa Paraiso A British woman and her eight-year-old daughter have been injured in an explosion at a hotel on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife. The woman was taken to hospital with severe burns to her face and scalp after the blast in the Bahia Principe hotel in Playa Paraiso on the south-west coast of...
Each year the Els Enfarinats festival takes place in the town of Ibi in eastern Spain. One group of men take over the town pronouncing a whole host of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them. Another group do battle with flour and eggs to regain control. All the fines raised go to charity ...
s speech not aired live on Catalonia's public television for first time since the monarchy was restored The Spanish king's traditional Christmas Eve address will not be aired on Catalonia 's public television on Tuesday for the first time since monarchy was restored, highlighting growing separatist fervour in the wealthy north-eastern region. Workers at the broadcaster have called a half-hour strike...
s Toshiba in a deal that will boost the UK's nuclear construction plans. NuGen, a joint venture between Iberdrola and the French utility firm GDF Suez, owns a site at Sellafield in Cumbria, where its plan to provide 3.6 gigawatts of nuclear capacity has stalled amid government delays. The government wants to replace aging and polluting power plants by the middle of the next decade and says it is keen...
s heritage It's been a tough year for Madrid. In September the city lost its third consecutive bid to host the Olympics. Months later a 13-day strike by rubbish collectors left rotting meat, vegetable peelings and plastic packaging piling up around the city. All this as the city continues to reel from an economic crisis that has shuttered more than 4,500 of its bars and hundreds of its cultural institutions....
s biggest lottery, which splits €2.5bn jackpot among thousands of ticketholders, based in working-class towns Winners of Spain's cherished 200 year-old Christmas lottery were celebrating across the country on Sunday – a rare moment of joy and relief at the close of another year of brutal financial crisis. Known affectionately as "El Gordo" (the fat one), Spain's yuletide jackpot is the world's biggest....
s conservative government has approved an abortion law that rolls back current legislation permitting the procedure without restrictions until the 14th week. Justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón said on Friday that abortion will only be allowed in the case of rape or when there is a serious mental or physical health risk to the mother. Accredited fetal deformities that would endanger a child's life...
s party leaders Spanish police have searched the headquarters of the ruling People's party (PP) as part of a corruption investigation that earlier this year threatened to destabilise the government of the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. Police entered the offices late on Thursday on the order of examining magistrate Pablo Ruz, searching for documents and invoices that might provide evidence of off-the-book...