Indonesian authorities called off their search for two Spanish men Saturday, finding no sign of them one week after their tour boat sank in central Indonesia.

The boat carrying 25 people departed from the island of Lombok near Bali and was headed east toward Komodo Island, a popular tourist destination, when it hit a reef and later sank in stormy weather on August 16.

Human Rights Watch accused Spanish police on Monday of beating migrants and illegally forcing them back into Morocco when they tried to climb over the border into Spanish territory.

The international watchdog (HRW) said Madrid must discipline Spanish Civil Guards who it said used "excessive force" against African migrants who climbed the six-meter (20-foot) triple-layer fence around the Spanish territory of Melilla last week.

Hundreds of African migrants tried Thursday to leap a triple-layer border fence around Spain's north African territory of Melilla but only one person made it through, the Spanish government said.

About 250 people attempted to cross the six-meter (20-foot) high fence between Morocco and the Spanish city of Melilla in the early morning, the Spanish government representative in Melilla said in a statement.

A right-wing Spanish public sector union filed a lawsuit Wednesday against an ex-president of the autonomous region of Catalonia, accusing him of graft involving up to 18 million euros ($24 million).

Jordi Pujol, who was president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, stunned supporters when he announced last month that his family had hidden an inheritance from his father in offshore accounts for the past 34 years.

Several hundred mourners joined a funeral service on Wednesday for a Spanish priest who died from Ebola after being infected in Liberia, becoming the first European victim of the worst-ever outbreak of the virus.

A black hearse transported an urn containing missionary Miguel Pajares's ashes to the chapel of the San Rafael hospital in Madrid, which was decorated with floral arrangements, including one sent by Spain's royal family.

Spain and Italy were struggling to cope with a huge wave of African immigrants on Wednesday, plucking more than 2,300 people from flimsy vessels in just 24 hours as they made a desperate attempt to reach the shores of southern Europe.

Enticed by a spell of calm waters, the number of Africans risking their lives on dinghies has surged, officials said -- many searching for refuge from war and oppression, or in the simple hope of achieving a better life.

Spain rescued Tuesday nearly 500 African migrants trying to enter the country by boat while hundreds more tried to scramble over a border fence into the Spanish territory of Melilla.

Spain's coastguard said it picked up 470 sub-Saharan Africans who were crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in 49 small boats, part of a surge of migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe's southern shores.

Spain's coastguard said it had rescued 267 sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, including 39 women and three children who were among those trying to reach Spanish soil on a flotilla of small boats.

Spain's coastguard said it had rescued 267 sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, including 39 women and three children who were among those trying to reach Spanish soil on a flotilla of small boats.

The migrants were picked up in the Strait of Gibraltar and taken to Tarifa, Spain's southernmost port, a spokesman for the coastguard told Agence France Presse.

Spain's tax office summoned a former president of the economically powerful and rebellious region of Catalonia for questioning on Friday after he admitted to concealing undeclared money in secret foreign bank accounts.

Jordi Pujol, who was president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, announced in a statement on July 25 that his family had hidden an inheritance from his father in offshore accounts for over three decades.