The European Investment Bank will back a planned power interconnector between Spain and France with an investment of 1.6 billion euros ($1.84 billion), it said on Monday, after Spain and Portugal's governments sought EU help to improve their power links following a huge blackout in April.

Square Asset Management, the biggest Portuguese real estate fund manager, is boosting its planned investment in commercial property in Spain and Portugal this year to €200 million ($231 million) amid higher demand for office buildings and malls.

Gere's wife, Alejandra, shared a video of the yard at their home in Madrid, revealing they're carrying out extensive work on the property.

(Reuters) -Spanish telecom giant Telefonica has accelerated plans to reduce its exposure in Spanish-speaking Latin America, where profitability is lower than capital cost, to focus instead on four main markets under new CEO Marc Murtra.

AN IRISHMAN has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in Spain. The shocking incident happened in the same area of Costa Blanca where an Irish national was left critically injured last month

On Netflix's Too Hot to Handle Spain challenge, a group of Spanish singles had to resist physical temptation to fight for €100,000.

Spanish telecom company Telefonica said late on Friday it had reached an agreement with Luxembourg-based Millicom International to sell 100% of the shares of its Ecuador unit Otecel S.A. for 380 million dollars.