The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of artworks looted by Nazis during the Second World War.

One of the first same-sex couples to be married in the UK as soon as the law allowed has said “I do” in front of a packed room of guests shortly after the stroke of midnight.

Unemployment among young people in Spain has reached crippling levels, with many deciding that a good life will only come from emigrating — even as far as Iceland, writes Alan Clendenning

A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the holiday season crashed, burned and broke into pieces today while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.