When P.K. Stowers goes in search of world-class tapas, a cosy venue leaves him happily sated.

A Spanish judge has extended the detention of a British couple arrested for taking their sick son from a British hospital, as sympathy grows for them at home.

P.K. Stowers stays at a 700-year-old Spanish castle.

This 700-year-old Spanish castle will appeal to amateur historians, hikers and those who enjoy fine dining.

A waiter, whose adoptive parents are peasants, claims to be the son of former Spanish king Juan Carlos and has launched a paternity suit.

Edward Gamson was looking forward to viewing the Moorish architecture of Granada. Instead, he was seated on a plane to Grenada. Now he's suing British Airways.

A vet shot a tranquiliser dart at a zoo employee dressed as a gorilla after mistaking him for a primate.

A wrong turn on the motorway led Colin Nicholson to Las Teresitas, one of the best beaches in the Canary Islands.

A nine-year-old girl from Spain who went missing for seven months has been rescued from deep in the Amazonian rainforest.

Graham Reid meets a New Zealander who is living the dream in Spain.

Bare-breasted feminists hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he arrived at church in protest at his support for a tightening of Spain's abortion law.

The Pope’s new Spanish Cardinal has called homosexuality a physical “defect” that can be cured, it has been reported.

What really happens on a European coach tour when the travellers are a few decades older than the Contiki generation? Ewan McDonald tried to find out.

To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbour playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation.

Spain's hanging houses and galleries captivate James Lane long after he leaves them behind.

Manuel Meyer takes a close look at beautiful fish off the Spanish coast.

There's nothing like a beautifully shot film to make you feel like up-and-leaving the very next day. Here are five examples that show off their stunning destinations to full effect.

A five-month-old baby has died in a tragic accident after being placed on a baggage conveyor belt at the Alicante airport in southeast Spain.

More than 1 million people showed their support for Catalan independence by joining hands to form a 400-kilometre human chain across the northeastern region of Spain.

A Spanish police officer has been arrested after allegedly posing as a spy chief and trying to "recruit" women by asking them to undergo tests that included having sex with him.

If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

Tensions between London and Madrid over Gibraltar are growing after the Spanish Prime Minister rebuffed an appeal by his British counterpart David Cameron.

The Spanish skipper of the fishing boat at the centre of a diplomatic spat threatening to rupture relations between Spain and Britain has said he feels "used" by his Government.

Andalucia's ancient Moorish outpost is back on the flight map. Laura Holt jets off to southern Spain.

Mark Lilley is arrested in his villa near Malaga.

Dodging the tourist traps, Ewan McDonald discovers a very old new world just off the beaten track in Barcelona.