Ceuta, Spain - Rainstorms wreaked havoc Monday in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, forcing the closure of schools, disrupting maritime traffic and damaging the border fence separating the autonomous city from surrounding Morocco, officials said.
Police patrols were increased on the border to prevent the entry of undocumented immigrants, who have long used Ceuta as a gateway to Europe, climbing over the
8-kilometre-long fence topped by barbed wire.
Madrid - A Spanish examining magistrate has asked Interpol to join the investigation into last month's crash by a Spanair aircraft at Madrid airport, El Pais daily reported Saturday.
The judge would like to discover if Spanair had violated international safety regulations, the report said.
The magistrate would like to find out what regulations the US and European aviation authorities stipulate for MD-82 aircraft, the type of Spanair craft that broke up after take-off and burst into flames on August 20 at Madrid airport.
Malaga/Madrid - Two loud explosion-like sounds scared residents and holidaymakers of Spain's southern coast around Malaga on Friday, the Defence Ministry said.
Madrid- Moroccan homosexuals may get rights within 50 years if the increase of Islamism does not prevent it, their representative Samir Bargachi said Thursday in the Spanish capital Madrid.
The Moroccan homosexuals' association Kif-Kif was participating in an international congress on the rights of homosexuals in Muslim countries.
Kif-Kif had some 3,000 members in France, Canada, Spain and Morocco, said Bargachi, who is the president of the association.
Madrid - The eastern Spanish village of Miravete de la Sierra markets itself as an unusual kind of tourist attraction: a place where nothing ever happens.
"In its peaceful streets, there are no cars, no traffic lights, in fact there is nothing. The time does not pass even by putting the clock forward," one of Miravete's 12 residents,
86-year-old Cristobal Sanguesa, says on an original website which has become the rage among internet surfers and bloggers.
Madrid - The Madrid stock mar
Ceuta, Spain - Rainstorms wreaked havoc Monday in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, forcing the closure of schools, disrupting maritime traffic and damaging the border fence separating the autonomous city from surrounding Morocco, officials said. 
Madrid - A Spanish examining magistrate has asked Interpol to join the investigation into last month's crash by a Spanair aircraft at Madrid airport, El Pais daily reported Saturday.
Madrid- Moroccan homosexuals may get rights within 50 years if the increase of Islamism does not prevent it, their representative Samir Bargachi said Thursday in the Spanish capital Madrid.
The eastern Spanish village of Miravete de la Sierra markets itself as an unusual kind of tourist attraction: a place where nothing ever happens.
