Via a grave site, Spain relives harsh divisions
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GRANADA, Spain -- On a hillside overlooking the Sierra Nevada mountains, a gnarled olive tree and a simple granite marker stand where historians believe Spain's most celebrated 20th-century poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was summarily executed and dumped in a communal grave.
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Researchers who gleaned DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic, but for ...
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The mass outpouring of grief at Yasser Arafatâs burial Friday was a powerful assertion of continued Palestinian defiance in the face of Israelâs brutal military occupation.
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A row between the British and Spanish governments 50 years ago over Gibraltar has been revealed in official archives.
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Archaeologists working in Syria find the remains of youths probably killed in a fierce battle 6,000 years ago.
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Spain pledged to keep up a tough line with the Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA on Wednesday after a bomb exploded at a Civil Guard police barracks, causing minor damage.
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SEVILLE, Spain -- There is a &quot;tomorrow&quot; after all for the staggering Americans in this ancient city where a sort-of connection to their past, Christopher Columbus, is buried in the ornate cathedral.
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For more than two decades he was Pope John Paul II&#039;s confidant and the Vatican&#039;s public face. A usually unflappable Spaniard, Joaquin Navarro-Valls struggled to hold back tears as the Polish pontiff lay on his deathbed.
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When Spanish police first came upon the body of Hicham Mandari lying face down in a garage between Mijas and Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol with a bullet in his head, they thought him just one more victim of a ...
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Afraid to stray from home, residents buried the dead in their gardens Saturday as US and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold, where
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - A morgue worker wheels the   mutilated remains of a pregnant woman past two severed heads --   all victims of a Mexican drug war that has descended into   barbarity and is terrorizing once-quiet towns.
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Spain's parliament begins debating a law to grant reparations to victims of Gen Franco's dictatorship.
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Spain unveiled a towering monument on Sunday to those killed three years ago in the bombings that ripped apart rush-hour commuter trains &#151; a glass oval containing messages of condolence written in the aftermath of Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.
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Seventy years after he was shot  during the Spanish civil war, 90-year-old Leandro Saun turns  red with anger when talking about a conflict that still divides  Spain.
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Four years ago in Barcelona, when Spain won the Davis Cup for the first time, Carlos MoyÃ¡ cut a rather sad and slightly dejected figure, an outsider who was forced to watch from the periphery because of an injured back.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Call it prophetic or defeatist or just plain cynical. But when the Basque separatist group known as ETA shattered its so-called "permanent cease-fire" in December with a massive bombing at Madrid's airport that killed two people, former ETA leader and convicted killer Eduardo Uriarte was not surprised.
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On the third anniversary of the train bombings that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800, Spain's political and social wounds are still aching, and the country is torn by a host of conspiracy theories.