The Basque regional government delivered a rebuff to ETA after the armed separatist group announced another ceasefire and suggested it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.

Two small bombs blamed on Basque separatist group ETA exploded on the Spanish island of Majorca today.

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.

Seve Ballesteros has left intensive care after his fourth operation, the Madrid hospital at which he is being treated have confirmed.

Severiano Ballesteros has left intensive care after his fourth operation, the Madrid hospital at which he is being treated have confirmed.

Seve Ballesteros is back in intensive care after undergoing further surgery at La Paz hospital in Madrid.

Severiano Ballesteros has been moved out of the intensive care unit at the Madrid hospital where he is being treated.

Seve Ballesteros could be moved out of intensive care as soon as next week, according to the hospital treating the five-time major winner.

Golfing great Seve Ballesteros is continuing to make good progress today following a third operation to remove a brain tumour.

European Tour chief executive George O’Grady has raised hopes about the health of golfer Seve Ballesteros.

Seve Ballesteros underwent 12 hours of surgery yesterday to remove a brain tumour, it has been reported by Spanish sports newspaper 'Marca'.

Messages of support continue to flood in for Seve Ballesteros after it was confirmed the Spanish golfing great has a brain tumour.

The pilots of the Spanair plane that crashed in Madrid, killing 154 people, failed to extend wing flaps needed to give the aircraft enough lift for take-off, a source familiar with the investigation said.

The “black box” flight data recorder will hold a clue to the likely cause of the devastating Madrid air crash which claimed more than 150 lives, air experts said today.

At least two people were feared dead after an airliner crashed on take-off at Madrid airport today, Spanish reports said.

Both of Spain’s major political parties called off all campaigning in the run up to Sunday’s general election after a politician was shot dead by Basque terrorists today.

Two men suspected of involvement in the deadly 2006 ETA bombing at Madrid’s airport have been taken into custody in France, it is reported.

A Spanish civil guard was shot and killed today in a clash with members of Basque separatist group Eta in south-west France, the first death involving the group since it abandoned a cease-fire in June, police said.

Spaniards voted today in local and regional elections following an acrimonious campaign centring on major issues such as terrorism and the Basque conflict.

Spanish prosecutors filed a lawsuit against a new Basque party with the Supreme Court today, calling it a successor of Batasuna – already banned for links to armed separatist group Eta.

Two suspected members of Basque separatist group Eta were today arrested in southern France.

Rescuers have found the body of the second Ecuadorian who was missing in the rubble of a huge Madrid Airport car-bomb blast blamed on the armed Basque separatist group Eta.

The Spanish prime minister toured a scene of utter destruction from a car-bombing and today warned the Basque separatist group Eta it had acted futilely by detonating the blast, insisting his government and people would not be intimidated.

Four days after a powerful car bomb attack at Madrid’s airport, blamed on the Basque separatist group Eta, rescue workers were today giving up hope of finding alive two people caught in the explosion.

Spain’s ruling Socialist party today said a peace process launched with a March ceasefire announcement by armed Basque separatists was now dead, not just suspended, following a weekend car bombing.

Crews sifting through tonnes of rubble have reached the core area of a car bombing blamed on Basque separatists, but cannot go any faster as they search for two missing men, Madrid’s mayor said today.

The Spanish government has blamed separatists ETA for a bomb attack at Madrid Airport.

A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid’s international airport today, injuring 26 people and leaving two missing in an attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.

A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been captured in Pakistan, according to a US law enforcement official.

Spanish police arrested the alleged killer of a Yugoslav human rights leader who had papers on him incriminating former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in assassinations when he was gunned down in 1990, authorities said today.

A bomb believed to have been planted by the Basque separatist group ETA has exploded at Madrid's International Airport.