Torrevieja - A record 25 kilogram (55 pound) tumor was recently removed from a 47-year-old woman in Torrevieja, Spain. This is one of only five similar cases recorded in the world, although the next biggest was a mere 11.3 kilograms (25 pounds).

Alfafar - The popular Swedish retail company Ikea is about to open yet another store, this time in Alfafar in the Valencian community of Spain. They have 400 jobs on offer, but received applications from 20,000 people, crashing their server capacity.

Borja - You may remember the controversial "restoration" performed on the "Ecce Homo" fresco at a church in Borja, Spain. Well, to add to the controversy, the priest at that church is now being charged with fraud and alleged sexual abuse.

Viral infections are the primary cause of liver inflammation or hepatitis. These infections, which use the body's own immune system, can cause permanent damage to the liver.

Barcelona - On Sunday protesters gathered in Barcelona to shed their clothes to raise awareness against the killing of animals for their skin.

Madrid - A bus, plastered with huge and graphic images of aborted fetuses, is currently doing the rounds of Madrid's main streets. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform in Spain is trying to get the word out against abortion.

Valencia - A research team has managed to design small synthetic molecules capable of joining to the genetic material of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and block its replication.

For some reason, certain businesses in Spain have decided to follow the US tradition of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, in trying to get shoppers to spend plenty of "dinero" before the festive season.

Fans of the "Thor" films will be pleased to hear that Chris Hemsworth, who played the lead, is busy on location with a new film in La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands. This time he is playing a 19th century shipwrecked sailor.

Guadix - Guadix in the Granada area of southern Spain is famous for its cave homes, which have been occupied since the late 15th century. However, one British person who lived in one of these homes was found dead on Wednesday, as his home collapsed on top of him.

Madrid - Anyone looking for a bargain is in luck. After its third-time-unlucky bid to host the summer Olympics in 2020, Spain's capital city of Madrid is busy selling all the gear they used during that bid, and it's going for a song.

Paris - Dry-cured ham, or jamón, is an essential food item in Spain and the guys who slice this ham are pretty important too. They have a special name, "cortadores", and they often enter competitions or in this case, beat world records.

Madrid - A jeweler who hails from Villaverde in Madrid has had a rough time. He has been robbed so many times, he has now developed virtually a sixth sense for anything suspicious, which paid off this time.

Barcelona - Back in 1994, a cache of bones was discovered at El Sidrón cave, around 50km from the city of Oviedo in Asturias, northern Spain. These bones have been the subject of scientific studies ever since and now forensic techniques are giving some answers.

Madrid - While the fact that it was Monday morning was quite bad enough, at 9:40 a.m. Madrid time, one of the subway trains on Madrid metro line 5 ground to a halt for over an hour-and-a-half, trapping the commuters inside, sometimes in the pitch dark.

Tarragona - Officers with the National Police in Tarragona, Spain have dismantled a massive cocaine lab, capable of producing around 20 kilos of the drug weekly. This is the largest laboratory ever found in Spain.

Barcelona - Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona in Spain made an exciting and fascinating discovery recently. They found the bones of four people, dating back some 6,400 years and the funerary rites were unlike anything they had seen before.

Barcelona - Anyone wishing to travel between Barcelona in Spain and Paris, France will be pleased to hear that things will be getting quite a bit faster, as a new AVE high-speed train is about to launch.

Popular Spanish actor and film star Antonio Banderas was interviewed by CNN recently and he shocked everyone by criticizing US President Barack Obama, and praising the economic policies of Hugo Chávez, the late Venezuelan president.

Every year at Christmas, Spaniards are treated to the popular "El Gordo" (the fat one) lottery, where everyone hopes to win millions in the big prize. This year's ad for the lottery was a bit "kitsch," so someone just had to do a parody.