Madrid, Feb 8 - The number of Spanish firms and individuals declaring bankruptcy rose 13.3 percent last year to 6,755, the highest total since the country's bankruptcy law took effect in 2004, officials said Tuesday.

Madrid, Feb 6 - In Spain, thousands of African immigrant girls are facing the danger of becoming victims of female genital mutilation, an ancestral practice that sub-Saharan immigrants have brought with them and which several NGOs and public agencies are fighting to eradicate.

Madrid, Feb 3 - The government has outlined a programme aimed at shoring up Spain's ailing financial sector.

Madrid, Jan 28 - The ranks of Spain's unemployed grew by 295,300 in the fourth quarter of 2011 to a record 5.27 million, the National Statistics Institute said Friday in its latest workforce survey.

Madrid, Jan 24 - Spain said Monday that it has halted the plan to privatise management of the country's two busiest airports.

Madrid, Jan 24 - The Spanish economy will contract 1.5 percent and unemployment will climb to 23.4 percent, the country's central bank said Monday.

Madrid, Jan 20 - Spain's Treasury sold benchmark 10-year bonds Thursday at a significantly lower yield compared to the previous auction, a sign of investor confidence in the country's struggling economy.

Madrid, Jan 19 - The 230,537 births recorded in Spain in the first half of 2011 represents a decline of 1.1 percent from the same period of the previous year and continues a trend that began in 2009, the National Statistics Institute, or INE, said Wednesday.

The median number of children per woman remained stable at 1.38 and the median age of first-time mothers was 31.3.