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The parliament of the Spanish region of Catalonia agreed on Wednesday to hold a referendum on independence of Spain.

DNA tests of the excavated body of Salvador Dali show that Maria Pilar Abel is not the biological daughter of the Spanish surrealist artist.

The Spanish government has moved to the supreme judges of the country for a referendum that the government of the region of Catalonia wants to hold on October 1 on independence. Deputy Prime Minister Soroya Saénz de Santamaría said Wednesday that the government has asked the constitutional court to nullify the holding of the referendum. The Spanish law does not allow part of the country to separate itself.

A group of terrorists who prepared 'major attacks' in Spain has been rolled up by the Spanish and Moroccan police. Spanish media reported Wednesday that the cell counted six people, led by a 39-year-old Spaniard of Moroccan Komaf in Melilla. That is a Spanish enclave on the North African coast. The group would work for Islamic State (IS).

Spain has understood the North Korean ambassador to completely reject the missile testing and nuclear program of the communist regime in Pyongyang. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has therefore decided to reduce the number of North Korean diplomats in Madrid. How many staff are dispatched, was not disclosed.

Archaeologists in Spain found more bodies in mass graves from the civil war of 1936-1939 and the subsequent dictatorship of General Franco. On some bodies there were still rotting leather boots.

Google is going to help car drivers find a car park. The tech giant has rolled out a new version of Google Maps containing two new features.

Barcelona stands for a massive manifestation, under the motto: 'no tinc por', I'm not afraid.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy wants to invest a summit on terrorism on Monday with French, Spanish, Italian and German leaders.

A Spanish court decided on Thursday to release a second of four detainees arrested in the terrorist attacks in Catalonia. Salh El Karib is released under certain conditions.

After the attacks in Spain last week, the number of attacks on Islamic targets in the country has risen dramatically. At least four mosques in Granada, Fuenlabrada, Logroño and Seville have reported reports of destruction and attacks in recent days. 'We record these days a brutal wave of hostility to Islam,' the Spanish Civilian Platform says against Islamophobia in the newspaper El Paìs.

The Spanish investigating judge decided on Tuesday evening to release Mohamed Alla, one of the four suspects of the terrorist acts in Barcelona and Cambrils, for free. Two detainees enter prison and the other remains in provisional detention. That reported the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

A cousin of the brothers Moussa and Driss Oukabir, who is behind the terrorist attacks in Spain, has been arrested by the Moroccan intelligence services. Police sources reported to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that it is Nourine Oukabir.

The four survivors of the terrorist group committing attacks in Barcelona and in Cambrils will be headed in Madrid on Tuesday. The newspaper La Vanguardia reports that the four-month evening from Barcelona was transferred to the capital.

The Spanish police have expressed their gratitude for all help in the search for Younes Abouyaaqoub (22), and also in Dutch: 'Thank you!'

The most sought after terrorist in the world shot down on Monday night: Younes Abouyaaqoub. He was the main suspect of 'Barcelona'. What do we know now?

Village fellow in the Catalan Ripoll knew him as a fortified forties who never spoke and seemed temperate. To a house in a south-facing Alcanar, the air flew through a failed gas bottle bomb. The mysterious Moroccan imam Abdelbaki as-Satty could once be the brain behind the teenage brigade who performed the attacks in Spain.

German writer Dogan Akhanli, who was arrested on Saturday during his holiday in Spain, may leave prison again. He is released under conditions.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced three days of national mourning. Rajoy responded to the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.

Airlines Air France and Iberia delete flights to Venezuela in the coming days. Sunday inconveniences are expected because of the election to elect a 'constitutional assembly'.

The Spanish police rolled up an international drug gang that worked from Barcelona and sold and sent Dutch xtc worldwide. Among the four detainees in Barcelona is a Dutchman who brought xtc pills from the Netherlands to Barcelona. Three other arrests have been made in Costa Rica and Colombia, Spanish media reported Thursday.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stressed Wednesday in a court hearing not to know anything about tampering with money by party mates. Rajoy has witnessed a trial on large-scale corruption and fraud in the regions of Madrid and Valencia, where members of his People's Party (PP) would have been involved. The PP campaign box would have benefited from the creation of malversations.

The Balearic Islands, including Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, prohibit bullring during bullfighting from Monday. It was after the Canary Islands in 1991 the second Spanish region that has laid down this lawfully. Additionally, the bulls should not be subjected to physical and psychological pain. The duration of a bullfight is limited to 10 minutes.

In Figueres in northeastern Spain, Thursday evening preparations have been made to dig up the physical surplus of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). The samples must be taken for DNA testing. A 61-year-old woman, María Pilar Abel, wants to prove that she is a daughter of the legendary surrealist artist.

The former boss of the great Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid, Miguel Blesa, has robbed himself of life. This was evident from the conviction, the administration of the Andalusian region reported Thursday.

The Spanish police found three of the five paintings of Irish-British painter Francis Bacon, stolen in 2015. The sheets worth about 25 million euros together disappeared from the house in Madrid of a friend and heir to Bacon (1909-1992).

The former boss of the major Spanish savings bank, Caja Madrid, Miguel Blesa, was found dead on a South Spanish estate on Wednesday. According to the police, everything indicates that he robbed himself of a shotgun of life on Wednesday morning.

In a collision between two eight-legged trains in a theme park in Madrid, Sunday 26 fell light-wounded. That is what the Spanish newspaper El País reports. Most victims had bruises and were dizzy after the blow. Nobody got seriously injured, said a spokesman for Parque de Atracciones. The visitors were sent for control to hospitals in the area.

The bald body of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) will be excavated on Thursday, July 20th. That ruled a court in Madrid on Thursday, the city council in Figueres told several Spanish media. Dalí is buried in his theater and museum in the Catalan town.

The Spanish police have rolled up an international network for child pornography. Among the fifty detainees is a 47-year-old Uruguayan who abused his daughters of six and fifteen years and shared the pictures with other pedophiles.