Madrid - Spanish doctors are preparing to perform the country's first face transplant operation, one of the first in the world, media reported Wednesday.
Doctor Pedro Cavadas said he had two young candidates for the operation, one of whom has been disfigured by burns and the other by a disease.
The transplant would only cover the lower half of the face below the eyes. The medical team in the eastern city of Valencia was waiting for a suitable donor to appear.
The National Transplant Organization has given the green light to the operation. It still needs the approval of regional health authorities, which was regarded as a mere formality.

Madrid - Spanish police have detained 41 people in 30 provinces on charges of owning and distributing child pornography over the internet, police said Wednesday.

Sevilla, Spain - Mercedes is planning to produce a "s

Melilla  - Spain has reinforced the frontier of its enclave of Melilla on the Moroccan coast after African would-be immigrants made their second attempt to storm it within 24 hours, officials said

Madrid - Spain's main opposition conservative People's Party (PP) was Friday opening a three-day party congress aimed at reinforcing the leadership of its president Mariano Rajoy and at ending a mo

Oviedo, Spain - French-Bulgarian semiologist, philosopher and historian Tzvetan Todorov, 69, was Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize in the category of social sciences, t