A team of Spanish police experts flew to the French island of Corsica to retrieve a masterpiece by Pablo Picasso which was smuggled out of Spain.

Spanish police have arrested a woman suspected of dumping her newborn boy in an underground rubbish container.

Dolores Aveiro, the mother of Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, the highest-paid footballer in the world, was stopped trying to leave a Spanish airport with €55,000 in her handbag.

A Briton has been arrested in Spain for allegedly killing a German man he caught filming his young daughter with an iPad.

A Swiss woman detained by Spanish authorities and taken to a hospital with her 10-month-old son allegedly cut the boy’s throat with a hidden knife and killed him after receiving permission to give him a bath, Spain’s Civil Guard said.

A Swiss woman detained by Spanish authorities and taken to a hospital with her 10-month-old son allegedly cut the boy’s throat with a hidden knife and killed him after receiving permission to give him a bath, Spain’s Civil Guard said today.

Leo Messi was questioned by police investigating money laundering by Colombian drug cartels.

Filming on Chris Hemsworth's new movie was abandoned yesterday due to devastating flash floods.

An Irishman has died after apparently falling from a balcony while on holiday in Tenerife.

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Desperate Spaniards are raiding farm crops to sell at markets in an attempt to raise money as their economy falters.

Two police officers have been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of a tourist in Majorca after the one who was driving failed an alcohol test.

AN IRISH holidaymaker has had a miracle escape after sleepwalking off the second floor of his hotel.

An explosion at an arms factory in central Spain used mainly to dismantle cluster bombs killed one person and wounded four others, one of them seriously, today, an official said.

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A man armed with a knife has stabbed 11 people at random on the Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza, officials said today.

Two Irish nationals were among a group of 25 people being held in Spain tonight after police smashed a suspected drugs ring in Ibiza.

Two Spanish police trainers were shot dead by their Afghan driver during a training session in western Afghanistan today.

A shoot-out between Spanish police and two men allegedly trying to rob a bank left one officer dead and another wounded, police said today.

Traffic police in Spain are giving offending motorists warnings instead of fines as part of a dispute over a pay cut.

King Juan Carlos of Spain successfully underwent lung surgery to remove a small benign growth today, doctors said.

FOUR suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Portugal and France, including one who was allegedly driving a van loaded with explosives, officials said yesterday.

Spain's security forces were on maximum alert today for the 50th anniversary of the armed Basque group ETA, blamed for bombings that killed two police officers and injured scores of people this week.

Police sealed off the holiday island of Majorca today after two officers were killed in a suspected ETA bomb attack.

A bomb attack near a police station on the Spanish island of Majorca killed two officers and injured several people today.

Dozens of people were injured when a powerful car bomb exploded early today in northern Spain outside a barracks housing police officers and their families.

Spanish police today arrested 22 suspected Hell’s Angels biker gang members in a crackdown across the country on racketeering and other offences.

A SISTER plane of the jet that crashed in Madrid yesterday had to make an emergency landing five days ago after suffering suspected engine problems.

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A powerful car bomb exploded outside a police station in northern Spain today, killing one officer and wounding four others in an attack blamed on the militant Basque separatist group ETA, police said.

Fourteen suspected Islamic militants arrested in Spain today may have been planning a terrorist attack in Barcelona, officials warned.

SPANISH police have scaled down their search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick after they failed to uncover any clues following two days of intensive investigations.

THE search for missing 15-year-old Dublin girl Amy Fitzpatrick will resume this morning for a second day and will concentrate on the area where she was last seen in the Costa del Sol.

POLICE, helicopters and sniffer dogs will carry out a huge search today of the area in Malaga where 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick was last seen eight days ago.

POLICE in Spain have launched a massive hunt for an Irish teen who went missing there on New Year’s Day after babysitting for family friends.

Police in a Spanish enclave in North Africa caught a teenager trying to sneak in from Morocco hidden in the petrol tank of a Mercedes car, officials said today.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann will not take legal action over a series of alleged smears against them in the Portuguese media, a family spokeswoman said.

POLICE in Spain are investigating a reported sighting of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.

A boat caught up in a court battle over sunken treasure has been cleared to leave a Spanish port.

SPANISH Civil Guards heightened a battle over a £250 million (€369m) treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Florida-based company.

Spanish police have found a car containing 100 kilos of explosives, the Civil Guard said today.

A KLM flight made an unscheduled landing in Barcelona after a man from Ghana started vomiting up egg-sized balls of cocaine he was smuggling in his stomach, Spanish police said today.

Yesterday's derailment of a train carrying hundreds of passengers in northern Spain killed at least six people and injured about 60, authorities said.

A 26 year old Irish man has been found dead on the island of Tenerife in the Canaries.