New Delhi - India and Spain on Monday set up a joint anti- terror mechanism during a visit by Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega to the Indian capital.

India also shared with Spain the evidence linking Pakistan-based elements to the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, IANS news agency reported.

"We expressed our condolences with the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks and offered our help in containing such strikes," the Spanish deputy prime minister was quoted as saying.

Madrid - The death toll of traffic accidents has fallen to the lowest level in 44 years in Spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Monday.

In 2008, at total of 2,181 people were killed in traffic accidents, 20 per cent down from the previous year.

The death toll has gone down despite the number of cars on the streets and roads increasing from 1 million to 30 million since 1964.

The government attributes the improvement to measures such as a penalty point system for driving licences and tougher penalties for speeding or drunken driving, which can be penalized with up to five years in prison.

Barcelona - Atheist groups in Barcelona will follow the example of a bus advertising campaign under way in London, placing ads denying the existence of God on two buses running in Spain's second-largest city, local transport authorities said Monday.

The ads reading "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" will be seen in Barcelona from January 12 onwards.

For believers, faith in God was not an obstacle to enjoying life, but "a solid foundation to live life with an attitude of solidarity, peace and a sense of transcendence," the Barcelona archbishop's office commented.

Madrid - Twelve African immigrants living in precarious conditions in Spain have posed nude for a calendar the sales of which will help them survive for a while, the daily El Pais reported Monday.

The men from Mali, Togo, Senegal and Mauritania appear in discreet pictures taken by Valencia photographer Adolfo Lopez in the calendar unofficially sponsored by an immigrant support organization.

Lopez said he tried to take elegant pictures to reflect the dignity of migrants.

"Without clothes, we are all equal," said 32-year Mady Fofana from Mali, one of the models.

Madrid - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday warned Israel that its actions in its conflict with the Palestinians were not the way to peace and security.

Spain rejected "irresponsible and provocative" ruptures of the ceasefire, as well as "disproportionate" reactions which violated international law, Zapatero said at a press conference.

Zapatero has agreed with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to seek international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, according to government sources.

Madrid - Madrid's Barajas airport was Monday gradually returning to normal after delays and cancellations of flights affected thousands of passengers, the airport operator AENA said Monday.

Spain's main airline Iberia, however, was still struggling to deal with hundreds of stranded passengers.

The problems at the airport are largely due to an unofficial work to rule stoppage by Iberia pilots seeking pay hikes and better working conditions.

Many of the Barajas air controllers also called in sick on Friday, but AENA denied on Monday that they had wanted to protest eventual pay cuts.