A bomb exploded on a beach in the popular Spanish resort of Torremolinos, a government department said today.

Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked roads across Spain, disrupting supplies of food, petrol, car parts and other goods.

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.

A warship was today on its way to a Spanish fishing boat with 26 crew hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

Low-cost Spanish carrier Air Madrid, which flies to London among other destinations, halted its operations today, saying a government threat to suspend its licence because of repeated flight delays had devastated its ticket sales and credibility.

Pilots at the Spanish airline Iberia have agreed to end a strike that was forcing the carrier to cancel more than 200 flights a day.

A bus veered off a highway outside Madrid today, flipped over and hit a tree, killing at least seven people, Spanish National Radio has said.

Two small devices exploded early today outside a court and a post office in towns in the Basque region of northern Spain.

A helicopter belonging to the Nato-led international security force in Afghanistan crashed in the west of the country today, killing 17 Spanish troops. The cause was not immediately clear.

At least 14 firefighters died today while trying to control a forest blaze that destroyed about 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of woodland and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their villages in drought-stricken Spain, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Four bombs exploded today near a power plant in the Basque region after a warning call from the separatist group Eta.

A small rudimentary bomb exploded today outside the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, injuring a policeman and killing a bomb-sniffing dog, the Italian Embassy said.

Two grenades exploded close to an airport in north-eastern Spain today following a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA.

An explosion killed seven workers at a warehouse today in the northern Spanish city of Burgos.

Police in Barcelona arrested a number of suspected Islamic militants today in a series of pre-dawn raids.

Two Moroccans went to court today for questioning in connection with last month’s train bombings in Madrid.

A Spanish judge charged two more suspects in the Madrid railway bombings early today, bringing the total number of people charged in the case to 14, court officials said.

A string of powerful bomb explosions rocked three Madrid railway stations today just days before Spain’s general election, killing at least 131 rush-hour commuters and injuring hundreds more in what officials called the deadliest attack ever by the Basque separatist group ETA.

A string of powerful explosions rocked several Madrid railway stations on the eve of Spain’s general elections, killing at least 30 people in what could be the deadliest attack ever by the Basque separatist group ETA.

At least 15 people were killed and scores were injured when powerful explosions rocked several rail stations during the morning rush hour in Madrid today.

A British man who escaped the terror attacks in Morocco tonight told of the “chaos” after a string of suicide bombs killed at least 40 people.

Spanish police have arrested at least ten suspected al-Qaida terrorists in raids across the northeast of the country.

Despairing fishermen have continued battling to defend Europe’s richest shellfish beds from a major fuel oil spill.

At least 17 people were injured, one seriously, when a four-story apartment building in north-eastern collapsed early today Spain after an apparent gas explosion, officials said.

Four people were reported killed and 40 others injured when an airliner crash landed on a road near Malaga airport on Spain’s Costa del Sol today.

Marine rescue units are working to evacuate 27 crew members from a Ukrainian ship that ran into trouble in stormy weather off Spain's north-western coast.