Spanish rescue services said Tuesday they had plucked nearly 500 migrants from the Mediterranean in a single day who were trying to reach the country's coast.
Spanish authorities said on Saturday they rescued over 250 migrants, including children, who were making the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
Dozens of tourists were evacuated by helicopter on Thursday from shelters at the top of a volcano on Spain's Tenerife island where they spent the night after being plucked from two cable cars that stopped mid-air.
A team of firefighters came to the rescue of a five-year-old girl who was clinging to the window sill of her seventh floor flat in Alicante after being left home alone.
The Guardia Civil helped a group of former members of the terror group Eta, which is responsible for killing more than 200 officers on the Spanish force.
Firefighters on the Costa Blanca were called to an unusual rescue last week when they had to use specialist cutting tools to free a 36-year-old man’s member.
Spain's coastguard said it rescued 15 migrants from a boat that was sinking off the coast of Morocco on Thursday, but 39 others who are onboard were missing.
A Spanish caver trapped for days in a ravine in Morocco, along with two companions who died there, flew home Tuesday as Spain's government faced calls to explain why the climbers were not rescued sooner.
Family and friends of two Spanish cavers who died after being trapped for days in a deep ravine in Morocco criticised Rabat on Monday over the rescue effort, while the sole survivor was said to be in good condition.
The sole survivor among three Spanish cavers trapped for days at the bottom of a deep ravine in Morocco's High Atlas mountains was freed Sunday after a complicated rescue operation, officials said.
Spain announced on Friday it will make a confidence-boosting early start to repaying a €41-billion ($56 billion) banking rescue loan from the eurozone.
Spain decided Thursday to follow Ireland's lead and exit its bank bailout without seeking a precautionary credit line in reserve, eurozone finance ministers said.
Spain's economy minister on Sunday said the eurozone's fourth-largest economy last year narrowly escaped a full state rescue thanks to an EU bailout of its ailing banking sector.
An 'uncooperative' Spanish family of five stranded on a yacht amid gale-force winds in the Aegean Sea was rescued by the Greek coastguard on Sunday after an operation including a helicopter airlift and a speedboat.
Medics in Ibiza were forced to enlist the help of buzz saw-wielding fire-fighters on Wednesday to free a German tourist from the clutches of a steel sex toy.
