Spain

Chelsea achieved a remarkable Champions League victory against Barcelona in the Nou Camp – but did the excitement deflect attention from the long-term decline of club football in this country?

Multi-millionaire fraudster Michael Brown could remain in Spain for at least six months while Spanish authorities organise his UK extradition hearing and any appeals, lawyers say.

Spain’s King Juan Carlos apologises for an elephant-hunting trip to Botswana – a jaunt that has caused outrage in a country suffering from an economic crisis.

Spain sets out deep budget cuts which its treasury minister has called ‘the most austere’ in the country’s democratic history, despite fierce popular resistance.

As Spain begins a general strike in protest at pro-business labour reforms, Spanish journalist Roman Orozco warns that austerity is turning the country from a welfare state into a state of fear.

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic outlasts Rafael Nadal of Spain to retain his Australian Open tennis title in a match lasting nearly six hours – the longest grand slam final of all time.

Over the weekend, Spain will become the latest troubled eurozone country to vote in a new premier. Channel 4 News profiles the man tipped to take over at the top, Mariano Rajoy.

Spain’s prime minister welcomes the laying down of arms by the Basque separatist group Eta as Tony Blair offers his personal help to bring about “irreversible” peace in the country.

Basque militant group Eta declare a permanent end to its violent campaign for independence from Spain and France, after over 40 years.

Standard & Poor’s cuts Spain’s credit rating because of an unpredictable financial climate and slow growth.

The Pope arrives for a four-day visit to Spain which has caused controversy among some who say the cash-strapped state cannot afford it.

France, Italy, Spain and Belgium impose a ban on short-selling financial stocks in a bid to restore confidence to the markets.

A Spanish national wanted in connection with an alleged attempt to kill King Juan Carlos in 1997 has been arrested in an armed swoop in Cambridge.