Moroccan Migrant Dies In Suitcase Enroute Spain

A 27 - year - old Moroccan man is said to have suffocated after stowing away in a suitcase for a ferry crossing to Almeria in Spain.He was found in the boot of a car, which arrived from Melilla a Spanish enclave in North Africa.

Mediterranean migrants flow continues for Italy and Spain

While debate about how to accommodate migrants  rages in the north of Europe, a steady stream of them continues to arrive on the shores of the south.Forty seven migrants were brought ashore at the Spanish port of Motril on Wednesday, children and a pregnant woman among them.Hundreds arrive in Messina. 

Spain: Princess striped of title amid fraud inquiry

The Spanish King Felipe VI has removed the title "Duchess of Palma" from his sister, Princess Cristina, who is to go on trial charged with tax evasion.

Princess Cristina  was granted the title in 1997 when she married Inaki Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball player who is also accused of tax evasion.

At least three dead after military plane crashes in Spain

According to Spanish defence ministry, An Airbus A400M military  aircraft was undergoing flight trails at San Pablo airport in Seville, Southern Spain  when it crashed early today May 9.

It is not clear as at press time how many people were on board, but it was reported that three persons have been confirmed dead, two injured and others unaccounted for.

X-ray scan reveals boy in suitcase being smuggled into Spain

A Spanish court has ordered the detention of a man from the Ivory Coast who allegedly attempted to smuggle his 8-year-old son into Europe in a suitcase.

A police statement said guards stopped a 19-year-old Moroccan woman who looked nervous as she waited in line Thursday at the land border crossing in Ceuta, a Spanish city enclave in North Africa.

When the guards put her suitcase through a scanner, they detected the boy curled up inside.

Border officers detained the woman and, later, the child's father at the same border crossing. The woman is married to the father, and both had residence rights in Spain. The court said the boy did not.

A Ceuta magistrate on Friday ordered the father held on charges of human rights abuse.

Germanwings co pilot Lubitz delibrately crashed plane

The co-pilot "deliberately" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said on Thursday.

The co-pilot, named as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, appeared to "show a desire to want to destroy" the plane, prosecutor Brice Robin told reporters.

"The co-pilot was alone at the controls," said Robin, presenting information gathered from the "black box" recorder that records sounds and conversations from the cockpit.