Lucía Benavides

Doctors are using conscientious objection to turn down patients. Religious anti-abortion clinics are springing up. Advocates say abortion rights are under threat again in Romania.

When media called him one of the few actors of color nominated for an Oscar, many Spaniards mocked the term or got angry.

Winter barbecues are a tradition in Catalonia. Instead of meat on the grill, it's locally grown onions. Family and friends get together to grill and eat the onions with a traditional Catalan sauce.

The Spanish government has taken the remains of the country's former fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, out of a basilica near Madrid. He has been reburied in a churchyard next to his wife.

Thousands of protesters shut down the airport and clashed with riot police in northeastern Spain after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to lengthy prison terms.

The court ruled against the family of dictator Francisco Franco and said the government can exhume his body from the monument where it lies. He will be reburied in a cemetery beside his wife.

After matadors kill bulls, restaurants and butcher shops will sell the meat during bullfighting festivals. One Madrid restaurant sells it all year long, despite opposition from animal rights groups.

An attempt by the new conservative mayor of Madrid to roll back the city's innovative vehicle pollution controls has Spanish environmentalists fuming, and heading for the courts.

Spain's governing Socialist party won the country's third election in four years on Sunday, but will need the help of either the left or right-leaning parties to form a government.

Spain is taking in more migrants than Greece or Italy — the first time that's happened since the crisis began in 2015. The numbers are expected to rise, and that's straining Spain's migrant services.