Three priests have been arrested in Spain over suspicion of the sexual abuse of children. A layman was also arrested.
The arrests in Granada were announced by the country’s interior minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, who provided no details. A secrecy order has been imposed by a judge.
The Secretary-General of the Communist Party, Jerónimo de Sousa, blamed the recent left and the right wing governments for the "spread of a network of corruption" across the country, and he does seem to have a point.
The seasoned Communist leader argued that there is a deteriorating political and institutional situation from a government without authority or credibility caused by a visible spread of a network of corruption, the proliferation of secret webs, of cronyism, tax fraud and evasion.
Non-alcoholic beer has been growing in popularity in Europe and elsewhere in the world, driving up sales.
Beer with little or no alcohol is on track to increase in global value by 26% from 2013 to 2018, the largest growth of any sector in the beer industry, according to Euromonitor.
The search for yet more free money has resumed with the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve (AMAL) and the Provincial Council of Huelva (pictured) in Spain identifying cross-border cooperation projects so they can access funds from the Community Support Framework 2014-2020, according to AMAL’s Jorge Botelho.
The AMAL president has met the president of the Huelva area, Ignacio Caraballo Romero, in a session at which it was "possible to identify common projects to develop in the areas of mobility and tourism, with the creation of tourist projects linking the two regions.”
Sir Cliff Richard is believed to be preparing to sue the BBC for breach of privacy over the televised raid of his property in Sunningdale, Berkshire, on August 14.
The entertainer is also said to be considering legal action against the South Yorkshire Police.
An international diving team is investigating whether the wreck found in Martinhal bay is that of the silver-laden Pedro Díaz smuggling ship that sank in a storm in 1608.
The ship had silver hidden in its official cargo of sugar and had set out from Argentina when it encountered a violent storm, sought shelter along the Algarve’s coastline but sank with all cargo lost.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation was so afraid of Martin Luther King that it urged King to kill himself in an anonymous letter.
The letter was written in 1964 by a deputy to the much-feared chief, J Edgar Hoover. The deputy, William Sullivan, purported to be a disillusioned civil rights activist.
Inditex, owner of the popular Zara clothing shop, has recorded another vast leap in profits.
Turnover for the Spanish retail leader was €16.7bn, up by nearly €1bn from the €15.9bn recorded last year.
