Madrid

The Spanish Parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted a law to protect women from domestic violence, following the deaths of more than 40 women in attacks by their partners so far this year.

An American and a Spanish runner were gored and at least four other people were hospitalised on Monday after the eighth and final running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival.

A Spanish art historian has uncovered what was alleged to be the first use of modern art as a deliberate form of torture, with the discovery that mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchist artists 65 years ago during the country’s bloody civil war.

They have called it Excalibur, though it was plucked from a pit of bones rather than the stone of Arthurian legend. To the ordinary eye it is a hand-sized, triangular chunk of ochre and purple rock. But to palaeontologists it is proof of a defining moment in the history of the human mind.

The government of Spain’s top wine-making region has given 2 340 bottles of red wine to pilots, sailors and other people who will spend Christmas monitoring or cleaning up oil from a sunken tanker.

As dawn broke over the Arabian sea off the Island of Socotra on Monday the Korean crew of the cargo ship So San awoke to find themselves staring down the barrels of guns lined up along the deck of the the Spanish frigate Navarra.

Visitors to Madrid have much to marvel over: splendid architecture, sizzling nightlife, great food and people who scream at each other.

Spanish troops will leave a disputed islet off the Moroccan coast on the condition that Rabat promises to never again send its troops there.