Spain's new government announced Friday that it would cut employees' maximum severance pay from 45 days to 33 days' salary for each year of employment. Employment Minister Fatima Banez said the goal was to stem unemployment.
Spanish freelance photographer Samuel Aranda won the World Press Photo Award for his portrait of a woman in Yemen cradling a wounded relative (pictured). The photo, which ran in the New York Times, came to symbolise the Arab Spring.
Spain's Supreme Court disbarred Judge Balthasar Garzon for 11 years for illegally wiretapping defence lawyers' conversations. Garzon is also waiting trial on two more charges, including abusing his authority.
Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador (pictured) Tuesday said he did not rule out appealing the two-year ban handed down to him by sport’s highest court for failing a doping test. Contador blames his positive test on contaminated meat.
Catalan avant-garde artist Antoni Tapies, has died aged 88, his art foundation said Tuesday. He began as a surrealist painter then moved towards informal art, incorporating waste paper, rags and other material into his canvases.
Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador on Monday was stripped of his Tour de France 2010 title and received a two-year suspension after being found guilty of doping. The ban was backdated, and Contador will be allowed to resume competition in August.
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon (pictured), known for investigating crimes against humanity, testified at his own trial on Tuesday in defense of his attempt to probe right-wing atrocities committed under former dictator General Francisco Franco.
The Greeks are up in arms over leaked plans to appoint an EU commissioner to check up on their finances, while German papers think that still isn't going far enough. We also look at Syria - as the papers predict time is running out for Assad.
The Fitch ratings agency downgraded five eurozone countries -- Italy, Spain and Slovenia by two notches and Belgium and Cyprus by one each -- on Friday, while lowering its outlook on Ireland amid persistent concerns about European debt.
Unemployment in Spain shot up to 22.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, the National Statistics Institute reported Friday. Spain is the eurozone country worst hit by joblessness, with 5.3 million people out of work at the end of December.
