Spain’s AVE high-speed train breaks ticket records over May 1 weekend
Service transported 125,467 passengers in one day at start of last week’s holiday
Bogus Shaolin monk gets 38 years for slaying two women in Bilbao
Juan Carlos Aguilar is found guilty of murder but not of using unnecessary cruelty
This week’s movie releases
Joss Whedon reunites Iron Man, Captain America, Thor et al for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Podemos co-founder resigns from leadership of anti-austerity party
Juan Carlos Monedero leaves role just hours after criticizing direction of group
More than 150 injured during violent teachers’ demonstration in Brazil
Government officials in Paraná state believe radical group infiltrated protest over pensions
Spain concerned about fate of four climbers still missing in Nepal
Relatives of the Asturian men complain that government is not keeping them duly informed
Ex-PM González sticking to plan to defend opposition leaders in Venezuela
But ex-PM admits authorities may keep him from entering the South American country
Police searching for American tourist missing in León province
Denise Pikka Thiem, 40, had been walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route
Barcelona hosts funeral Mass for Germanwings crash victims
King Felipe joins 1,500 mourners to remember the 150 who died in the air tragedy
This week’s movie releases
Russell Crowe turns director with historical drama ‘The Water Diviner’
Lorca murdered after “confessing,” says Franco-era police report
Document written 29 years after his death describes arrest and killing of Granada poet
Judge orders all former IMF chief Rato’s accounts to be blocked
Ex-Popular Party deputy prime minister denies owning firms in tax havens PP seeks to distance itself from financial crimes probe, calling it a “private affair”
The Venezuelan students abandoned to their fate in Madrid
Restrictions at home have left hundreds of youngsters unable to access foreign currency
This week’s movie releases
Liam Neeson and Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra team up to ‘Run All Night’ ‘Shaun the Sheep’ serves up a delightful dose of stop-motion slapstick
Customs officers conduct search of ex-IMF chief’s Madrid home
Rodrigo Rato, a former minister, is allegedly being investigated for money laundering
New voter poll shows Podemos still in the lead but losing momentum
Ciudadanos continues to rise rapidly, confirming that four parties will vie for power at polls
This week’s movie releases
Helen Mirren fights to recover the art the Nazis stole from her family in ‘Woman in Gold’
Francisco Franco was a dictator after all, Royal History Academy concludes
State-funded body rewrites several definitions in controversial biographical encyclopedia
House sales up 15.5% in February
Number of property transactions carried out in Spain has now risen for six months in a row
Ex-Socialist minister asks to resign party membership over abuse claim
MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar anticipates PSOE's decision to temporarily suspend him
Spanish economy creates 160,000 jobs in best March since 2001
Social Security affiliations grow while jobless claims drop, according to ministry figures
Alcohol, razor blades and perfume: What tops the shoplifters’ wish list
Industry says organized gangs, not hungry individuals, are behind most supermarket thefts
Five domestic abuse deaths registered in Iberian peninsula in just one day
An entire family was found dead in their home in Gibraltar with stab wounds
This week’s movie releases
Kenneth Branagh delivers a live-action, straight-up ‘Cinderella’ for Disney
Spanish economy picks up pace, growing 0.8% in first quarter of 2015
Bank of Spain credits better conditions for its increasingly optimistic forecast for this year
“This is the most terrible event in the company’s history”
Lufthansa CEO says copilot had “impeccable” attitude and employment record The 28-year-old German, Andreas Lubitz, had also passed all psychological tests
Rajoy: “We want to repatriate the victims in the best possible manner”
Spanish PM holds joint press conference with Hollande and Merkel near French crash site
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