For this week's edition of My Spain we talk to blogger, gardener, and gourmet Sue Sharpe about the wonders of thistle cheese, why she loves Extremadura and how she ended up burning furniture one winter to stay warm.
Dozens of holidaymakers who had checked in for a British Airways flight from the Scottish city of Aberdeen to Barcelona were kept waiting for over three hours early on Sunday morning because all the cabin crew were fast asleep.
Spain is on track to salvage its bad loan-ridden banking sector with a huge European rescue loan but a biting recession and the nation's high debt levels pose risks, the European Union and IMF warned on Monday.
Many of Spain’s National Police Corps are having to pay up to the tune of €1,000 each for life-saving equipment such as bullet-proof vests and slash resistant clothing due to lack of government funding.
Nearly half of all Spaniards are just managing to get by financially while 25 percent are struggling to survive from one pay cheque to the next, key research released on Monday shows.
Basque police have found bone remains in a Bilbao gym run by the martial arts expert who on Sunday was arrested after he allegedly tortured and left a prostitute in a coma.
Jose Mourinho has said he expects his return to Chelsea as manager to be confirmed later this week.
A top official from Spain's ruling Popular Party argued on Sunday that young Spaniards working within the European Union are "at home" and that now is the time to develop a genuine European patriotism.
Spanish star Penélope Cruz is set to become the latest Bond girl at the age of 39.
Spanish police said on Sunday they had broken up a ring that smuggled in women from Nigeria and forced them into street prostitution by burning them with irons and using voodoo rituals.
