Experts say nearly every woman migrating to Spain from Africa is sexually abused along the way. They sometimes arrive pregnant or with infants conceived on their journey, often a result of rape.

More than four decades after his death, the dictator Francisco Franco remains a divisive figure. His tomb is situated at a memorial outside Madrid that has become a pilgrimage site of sorts.

Decades after his death, Spain's government passed legation allowing officials to move the remains of the country's ex-dictator Francisco Franco out of the giant memorial that he built for himself.

Far more immigrants and asylum-seekers are crossing the Spanish border than those entering other usual Mediterranean entry points Greece and Italy.

A secret adoption network started in Spain in the 1930s as a fascist tactic to purge "communist tendencies" from women who defended the republic, say prosecutors and academics.

Thousands of babies were stolen from their parents during the Franco dictatorship in Spain, but the story was suppressed for decades. Now, the first court case has begun.

While some European countries are turning away migrants rescued at sea, Spain is taking them in. A ship carrying dozens of asylum-seekers arrived today in prosperous and welcoming Barcelona.

Spain offered to open its port to a ship carrying more than 600 migrants — including more than 100 unaccompanied minors — after Italy and Malta refused. Spain is seeing an increase in migrants.