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New website aims to be home of Spanish

Cyberspace has welcomed a new, Wikipedia-style tool designed to help the world’s nearly 400-million Spanish-speakers consult on proper use of their language. The website, called…

Homeowner found mummified on couch

A man checking for fire damage at a home he bought in a foreclosure auction walked into the living room and found the former owner’s mummified body sitting on the couch, Spanish…

Europe to Africa by train?

Engineers have dreamt of it for a quarter-century: linking Europe and Africa at the spot where the two very different worlds gaze at each other across a strip of choppy water.…

Africans in limbo scrape by in Spain

The luckier ones sleep in crowded apartments or shelters and do construction work, dodging inspectors or using a friend’s papers. The less fortunate live in parks and hand out…

Spanish govt wants to monitor mosques

The Spanish government is considering monitoring mosques and imams to curb Islamic extremism blamed for the March 11 terror bombings in Madrid, the foreign minister said on…

Spain gets close-up look at the Palomares disaster

In a sunny corner of the world where nothing much ever happened, Martin Moreno climbed atop a leaking American hydrogen bomb and smiled as he tried to pry loose a souvenir.