Spain
A passenger ship collided with a crane in the port of Barcelona. The collapsing crane sent people scrambling to safety and started a fire. The poor weather conditions may have made steering the ship difficult.
On 1st October 2017, Catalan separatists staged a referendum for independence from Spain. A year later those same organisers are in jail or self-imposed exile while rallies continue on both sides of the independence argument.
Zookeepers in Valencia, Spain rescued a female zebra foal from drowning, after she fell into the water just a few minutes after she was born.
He has been detained in Spain pending his transfer to the Netherlands.
Three people have died from heatstroke in Spain amid record-breaking temperatures.
In fact it could be even hotter.
Emergency workers, including health officials and psychologists, met the migrants upon arrival.
The number of people fleeing poverty and conflict by boat to Spain doubled last year.
The former leader, Mariano Rajoy, was embroiled in a long-running corruption scandal.
