Valencia, Spain - More than 40,000 Spaniards and tourists Wednesday bombarded one other with tomatoes in an event billed as the world's biggest vegetable war.

Six lorries dumped 115 tons of tomatoes in the centre of the eastern town of Bunol, which staged the Tomatina for the 63th time.

The one-hour battle momentarily got out of hand, with some of the "warriors" hurling tomatoes not only at each other, but also at people watching from their balconies.

A Japanese tourist was injured in the head in tumult.

The only weapons allowed are squashed tomatoes, but some participants wore goggles and bathing caps, while others shielded themselves with rackets or sported wigs or hats made of watermelons to add to the fun.

Castellon, Spain - Spanish palaeontologists have found bones of a gigantic dinosaur which was 20 metres long and weighed between 40 and 70 tons, regional officials said Wednesday.

Madrid - Spain's Nuclear Security Council (CSN) will urge nuclear plant operators to invest more in their safety, the daily El Pais said Wednesday.

The CSN, which is the country's top authority on nuclear energy, has called a meeting with plant operators in September following a string of incidents at Spanish plants.

Recent accidents include a fire at the Vandellos II plant on Sunday, which led to its closure until the causes are clarified, and a radioactive leak which did not cause health damage at the Asco I plant in November.

Both plants are located near Tarragona in the north-east.

Madrid - The Spanish health authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose son died earlier of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Madrid - One week after a Spanair MD-82 passenger plane crashed at Madrid airport, killing 154 people, the causes of the accident remain unknown, Spanish media reported Wednesday.

The pilot did not report anything to the control tower after take- off, the daily ABC said.

The plane hit the ground tail first outside the runway, according to a commission investigating the accident.

The tail then broke off and the plane bounced for 1,200 metres, hitting the ground three times and suffering increasing damage.

Madrid - Spain's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.8 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2008, down from the 3.8 per cent annual rate for 2007, the National Statistics Institute said