Francisco Franco

The Franco-German axis will make historic decisions, emphasized the President of the Elysee from Berlin

Spanish authorities will remove Francisco Franco's remains from a state mausoleum on Oct. 24, seeking to exorcise the ghost of a dictator whose legacy still divides the country more than four decades after his death.

European Union leaders were negotiating non-stop overnight into July 1 to fill top Brussels jobs, as a Franco-German compromise ran into stiff opposition.    

The family of Francisco Franco will take possession of his remains after they are exhumed, one of his grandchildren was reported as saying on Aug. 25.

Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched proceedings to remove Spanish football legend Hristo Stoichkov from his post of Honorary Consul of Bulgaria to Spain's  Catalan and Aragon regions, it announced on Tuesday.

The world's heaviest man, who at one point weighed almost 600 kilograms, has undergone successful gastric bypass surgery, his doctors in Mexico said.

Felipe VI of Spain was handed the throne by his father Juan Carlos late on Wednesday, in what marked the first succession of the crown in Spain's recent democratic history.