It is not given to everyone, but Iñaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, was allowed to choose his own prison. He chose one where he is the only male inmate between 162 women.
Anyone visiting Bobbejaanland can be asked to stand on the scale. By weighing visitors to the amusement park, the theme park hopes to stay below the weight limit at the attractions concerned and to make the theme park safer.
More than 175,000 people went into the streets of Spain in the Basque Country on Sunday to form a human chain of more than 200 kilometers. With this action, the Basques want to express their demand for a referendum on independence.
The Social Democrat Pedro Sánchez will present his minority cabinet on Wednesday with a technocrat from the EU headquarters Brussels, Nadia Calviño, as Minister of Finance. The 49-year-old Galician-based economist worked for years at the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs when she settled in Brussels in 2006 to work for the European Commission.
The separatists have regained control in the regional parliament of Catalonia on Saturday with the swearing in of a new government. This puts an end to the direct domination by the Spanish government from Madrid.
Real Madrid has won the Champions League on Saturday for the third year in a row. In Kiev, Zinedine Zidane's team accounted for 3-1 with Liverpool from the Dutch team Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.
Mistakes, masked hooligans, chaos at the airport, crying fans. The organization of the Champions League final in Kiev is so lousy that UEFA has announced its apologies and wants to prevent repetition, at all costs.
The authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kiev have closed five metro stations in connection with a bomb alert. Further information is still missing.
The Catalonia region still remains under Spanish curatorship. Article 155 is not lifted, as the new President Quim Torra, in the eyes of Prime Minister Rajoy, again seeks the confrontation with Madrid.
Catalan has, after months of political chaos- in all likelihood- a new prime minister: Quim Torra. But Madrid is certainly not pleased with this straw man from Puigdemont. Because Torra is again a separatist hardliner.
The Spanish government wants to prevent through the courts that the fled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is appointed regional leader while he is not there and is abroad. The Catalan parliament approved a bill last week that makes it possible to choose a regional prime minister who is not personally present.
The Catalan Parliament has approved a bill that should make it possible to choose a regional prime minister who is not personally present. As a result, former leader Carles Puigdemont (55) still comes into the picture to fulfill his old post again.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is settled in Berlin and wants to remain in the German capital for the time being, pending a decision on his possible expulsion to Spain. He said that Saturday at a meeting with the press.
The Public Prosecution Service in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has asked the authorities to hand over the Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont to Spain. Spain issued a European arrest warrant last month.
The lawyers of former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont and his former Minister Toni Comin have filed a complaint against a Spanish television channel.
Justin Kluivert (18) may call himself the greatest talent in the world. The Ajax striker received the NxGn award for best teen in the world (born on or after 1 January 1999) on Wednesday.
The former Minister of Education of the Spanish region of Catalonia has signed up with the Scottish police. Clara Ponsati, like the former leader Carles Puigdemont and a few other ministers, is wanted by the Spanish justice because they proclaimed independence from Catalonia.
More than ten members of the Spanish intelligence service CNI have watched the separatist leader from Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, on his journey from Finland to Germany. This has been confirmed by the authorities, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
Tens of thousands of pensioners have demonstrated throughout Spain to raise their pensions. In the center of Madrid a huge crowd gathered Saturday despite the pouring rain. On banners were texts like: 'I am a pensioner, not an idiot!' And 'thieves! They steal our pensions! '
In riots in the center of Madrid ten police officers were injured and six arrests were made. Barricades were also raised during the disturbances, vandalism, fire and a shop looted, Spanish media reported.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont withdraws as a candidate for the presidency of Catalonia. According to El Nacional he does that Thursday. The Spanish newspaper relies on sources within the Puigdemont party.
The percentage of Catalans who are in favor of secession from Spain is declining sharply according to opinion pollers of the Catalan government. The Catalonian Center of Opini Studies (CEO) states that now 40.8 percent of respondents want independence and 53.9 percent want to stay with Spain.
It was no matter if, but when a cesspool around Anbang would open. For years, research has been conducted into the shadowy financial trade and walking of the Chinese insurance giant, owner of the Dutch company Vivat, and now Beijing has intervened hard by taking control of the company. CEO Wu Xiaohui is being prosecuted for fraud.
A demented woman in Spain accidentally killed her husband by serving him a cup of cleanser instead of a cup of coffee.
The stay of Carles Puigdemont in Belgium can go into the papers, because according to the Belgian business newspaper L'Echo he is going to rent a pricey villa in the Belgian town of Waterloo.
The Catalan ex-prime minister and foreman of separatists in the region, Carles Puigdemont, seems to be tired of his political role. Spanish media spread on Wednesday a sort of farewell message that Puigdemont would have sent to party and ex-minister Antoni Comín: 'It's over, we've sacrificed ourselves, the Moncloa has triumphed.'
The Catalonian parliament president Roger Torrent has postponed the session meant for choosing a head of government for the Spanish region. At first, Torrent wanted to have Carles Puigdemont, who had been deposed in October, elected prime minister again.
The parliament of the Spanish region of Catalonia chooses a new regional prime minister on 30 January. The parliament said that in a statement on Thursday. The only candidate at the moment is Carles Puigdemont, the ex-premier who has fled to Belgium and is still living there.
The Spanish government is going to challenge the candidacy of Carles Puigdemont as leader of the Catalan region at the Constitutional Court in Madrid. That's what deputy prime minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said on Thursday, according to the Spanish news agency Europa Press.
The deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont does not exclude the possibility that he will go to Catalonia next week to be sworn in as the leader of the Spanish region. ' There are many possibilities '', he said in Brussels after a meeting with the president of the Catalan parliament, Roger Torrent.
