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Spain's Crown Prince Felipe will attend the Oct. 18 inauguration of the 23rd Ibero-American Summit in Panama, though Madrid is to be officially represented at the gathering by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.The prince will take part in the opening ceremony and gala dinner in the absence of King Juan Carlos, who cannot attend the conference because he is recovering from hip surgery, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said Monday.It will be the first Ibero-American Summit without the Spanish monarch since the inaugural gathering in 1991.The palace repeated several times that Felipe is not attending in place of his father, since this is a meeting reserved for heads of state and government, and the highest Spanish representation would correspond to Rajoy.Nonetheless, the palace and the Foreign Ministry managed to schedule an agenda of activities for the prince during the summit, at cultural and business events held in parallel to the meeting of Ibero-American leaders.Among the most important of th...
Former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota, who lost an eye in a crash last year, was found dead in a hotel room in Seville on Friday. She was 33.Spanish police...
The Spanish government on Friday authorized oil drilling off the Canary Islands, one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations, in a bid to ease the struggling c...
Former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota was found dead in a hotel room in Seville on Friday, and police said it appears she died of natural causes. She was 3...
Former Formula One driver Maria de Villota was found dead in a hotel room in Seville on Friday, and police said it appears she died of natural causes. She was 33.Spa...
Spanish police have confirmed that racing driver Maria de Villota has been found dead in a hotel room in Seville, and say it appears she died of natural causes. She ...
Spaniards born with severe defects after their mothers used the drug Thalidomide during their pregnancies are suing its producer, the German company Gruenenthal Grou...
Spain's 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Belarus in Palma de Mallorca on Friday night took Vicente del Bosque's men to the brink of next summer's finals in Brazil, ...
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Two people were gored Thursday during a tense and dangerous second running of the bulls at Spain's famed San Fermin fiesta, and at least five ...
A red-and-white ocean of revellers erupted in cheers to launch Spain's annual San Fermin bull-running festival on Saturday but only after a 19-minute delay caused by...
The Spanish and Moroccan governments are moving forward with plans to explore for oil near the Canary Islands despite opposition from the tourism industry and enviro...
Spain's foreign minister says the display of flags promoting independence for Catalonia and separatist chants during the Barcelona-Real Madrid soccer match are damag...
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say seven airports are closed because of ash from the volcano in Iceland .The Spanish National Airport Authority says airports in t...
Thousands of people gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to assert their right to be Spanish as well as Catalan in a protest designed to demonstrate to separatists that...
Thousands of people are gathering in Barcelona to assert their right to be Spanish as well as Catalan in a protest designed to prove to separatists that a significan...
World Cup holder Spain hosts Georgia knowing a win or a draw will put it into the 2014 tournament as Group I winners.The European champions are three points above Fr...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pagea...
Spain's Interior Ministry says Belgian police have arrested a suspected member of the armed Basque group ETA who is wanted in connection with the killing of six secu...
Several thousand people have marched in the northern city of Bilbao to express support for members of the Basque separatist group ETA who are currently serving jail ...
Spain's tennis federation has selected the southwestern city of Seville as the venue for the Davis Cup final in early December, when the host nation will square off ...