Spanish train operator Renfe on Thursday said it had signed a $6-billion deal with US rail developer Texas Central to design, build and run a high-speed rail line in the United States.
Spain's Socialist party are trying to push through a bill that effectively decriminalises euthanasia, proposing that any person suffering a serious debilitating or incurable illness may be helped to die if they wish, in order to avoid intolerable suffering.
Each year thousands of English-speakers enrol in a programme to work in public schools across Spain as language assistants known in Spanish as auxiliaries de conversación.
This week the US issued a new security alert for American citizens travelling to Spain warning them to take precautions against sexual assault when visiting or studying in the country.
Brexit day has finally come, and with it feelings of devastation, betrayal and above all, sadness. British people in Spain have been sharing their feelings about the UK’s departure from the EU and how they will be marking the occasion.
An incident on the Madrid metro on Thursday has served to highlight the anti-Chinese sentiment that has infected society as panic spreads over the coronavirus.
Mary Reid considers herself proudly British, and yet after 14 years in Spain creating a life, a career and a family, the time has come for her to switch allegiance.
In a remote corner of eastern Spain the cultivation of pungent 'black diamonds' is transforming a rural economy and making the region the truffle capital of the world.
Residents in Denia have launched a petition calling for Gorgui Lamine Sow, the undocumented migrant who leapt into a burning building to save a disabled man, to be rewarded for his heroic deed.
The Senegalese street seller who rescued a man from a burning building in Denia on the Costa Blanca said he isn’t a hero and only did what any what good human would do.
Residents in Denia on Spain’s Costa Blanca are keen to track down the unknown hero who scaled a wall and climbed into a burning house to carry out a man trapped by flames.
Frustrated, abandoned, completely voiceless, disenfranchised, criminally neglected - this is how many British citizens in Spain feel at being denied a vote in next month's crucial general election because they choose to live abroad.
In what was an historic day for Spain, the remains of General Francisco Franco were removed from the tomb that lay beside the altar in the vast basilica and transferred to a more discreet grave in a municipal cemetery on the outskirts of Madrid.
It may not be to everyone’s taste. And it is certainly likely to be offensive if served to a vegetarian but it came as a terrible shock to one proud Gallego to learn that his favourite regional dish “violated community guidelines” on Instagram.
The family of a British father and son who disappeared on a golfing holiday in southern Spain fear the pair were murdered after being caught up in a drug deal.
Their comeback from the brink of extinction has been hailed as one of Europe’s greatest wildlife success stories, but that has been tainted by the news that at least four Iberian lynx have been killed this year through illegal hunting.
Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green light for the government to remove the remains of Francisco Franco from a grandiose state mausoleum, rejecting an appeal against it by the late dictator's descendants.
