From a private home in central Madrid are five paintings of British painter Francis Bacon stolen. The works have a total estimated value of 30 million euros, the Spanish newspaper reports
El País . It involves one of the largest art thefts in Spain.
In Amsterdam opens March 2 permanent virtual reality movies. Here can watch fifty people with virtual reality glasses in movies recorded in a circle of 360 degrees. Thus it seems as if you're in the middle.
Iker Casillas who for years the goal defended by top club Real Madrid, has come into conflict with the Spanish bank Bankia which might have misled investors with the IPO in 2011.
Increasingly bred lynx released into the wild. In Spain, there are already about 327 around in nature.
Spanish police on Sunday arrested seven people suspected of supporting 'Islamist militant groups' fighting in Iraq and Syria. Under the guise of humanitarian aid they sent money and containers full of weapons, raw materials for bombs and computers to the battlefield, put the Interior Ministry in Madrid.
The Spanish King Felipe VI has had to cancel his state visit to the UK in March because of the difficult formation of a government in his country. Madrid has let know that Thursday's visit from 8 to March 10,, due to the current process of forming a government is delayed. ' Not indicated when the visit it can go. Spanish politics deadlocked since the elections on December 20th.
A unit of Saudia Airlines, which was about to depart from the airport from Madrid to Riyadh, has been grounded because of a bomb threat. A note with the words 'bomb on board' was pinned with a knife to a luggage rack.
With Spanish and European flags in hand on Sunday, thousands of people demonstrated in Barcelona against separatism. Spain must remain one country, was the message of the demonstrators. Secession of Catalonia, the wealthy region around Barcelona, is for them a nightmare.
The new year has arrived in the Western Hemisphere, although not everywhere. The arrival of 2016 is still only celebrated in the Spanish village of Villar de Corneja. The almost fifty mostly older residents decided to bring forward the new year celebration twelve hours, because they do not want to go to bed late, Spanish media reported Thursday
In the parliamentary elections Sunday in Spain emerges with more than 58.3 per cent a slightly higher turnout than four years ago (57.6 percent). The difference is very small country, but according to Spanish media the turnout in certain regions measured around 18:00 a lot higher than in 2011 and in some regions is much lower.
From outside it looks like the St. Barbara Church in the Spanish Llanera in the province of Asturias, a very normal church of a hundred years old. Only is there no prayers inside, but young and hip exercise their 'ollies' on brightly colored halfpipes.
A plane was en route from Madrid to Sao Paolo has had to reverse out of necessity. The occasion was a bomb threat.
The Taliban in the Afghan capital Kabul attacked the Spanish Embassy. Which have been reported to the authorities in Afghanistan and Madrid.
An accidental release from a balloon child Wednesday some of the underground in Madrid paralyzed. The balloon, filled with helium and metal clad flew during the morning rush hour at the station Sol against the overhead line of the subway and caused a short circuit there.
Thousands of people Saturday in London and in Spanish cities demonstrated against air strikes against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
Stern language with a clear message to terrorists. But also many words of comfort and hope, for this and future generations. "We will carry on the fight until the end and we will win. They have the death cult, we who love for life", French President Francois Hollande said two weeks after the attacks in Paris the French population with a straight face to.
The Spanish government on Wednesday stepped to the Constitutional Court to prevent the parliament from the northeastern region of Catalonia brings about the separation of Spain. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Wednesday accused the separatists in the Catalan parliament it " more than five centuries of wanting to destroy Spanish unity with their attack on democracy and the sovereignty of Spain."
The Catalan parliament will Monday begin a process to separate the region of Spain. The deputies of the regional parliament in Barcelona wish to do so to adopt a resolution which the official beginning of the establishment of an independent state should mark.
Tens of thousands of people Saturday in the Spanish capital Madrid demonstrated against female violence. At the protest march organized by feminist groups, representatives of all political parties participate, the BBC reported.
The Spanish police on Tuesday arrested three Moroccans suspected of planning an attack in the name of Islamic State. According to Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz was the trio are about to carry out an attack.
Spanish police have broken up a nationwide campaign with a large child pornography network . Police raided three hundred eighty people at addresses and arrested 81 suspects.
