Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine have hired a Spanish nanny to look after their baby son Prince George, palace officials said Thursday.

Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo will travel with the royals on their tour of New Zealand and Australia next month, Kensington Palace said.

Spain searched Thursday for four missing crew from a military helicopter that crashed during exercises by the Canary Islands, which lie off the northwest coast of Africa.

Only one survivor has been found since the Super Puma helicopter crashed during exercises on Wednesday evening, an air force spokesman told Agence France Presse.

About 500 migrants stormed across the border fence from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Melilla Tuesday in one of the biggest such crossings in years, a government official there said.

About 1,000 Africans rushed the triple-layer fence separating the Spanish city from Morocco in a "violent" assault around 0700 GMT and half of them made it across, said the Spanish governor of Melilla, Abdelmalik El Barkani.

The Spanish government expects first quarter growth to "at least" match the 0.2 percent expansion posted in the final quarter of 2013, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said Tuesday.

Spain will post its third successive quarter of economic expansion in the January-March period "with growth which we expect will be at least the same as that which we had in the final quarter of last year," he told a business forum in Madrid.

Security forces have broken up a Spanish and Moroccan network suspected of sending jihadist fighters to battle Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, arresting seven suspects, Madrid said Friday.

Spain's government said it was the "most important" cell it had detected sending jihadists to Syria and other conflict zones.

Police in Spain arrested a rich Lebanese man suspected of trying to buy the healthy liver of a poor immigrant to receive it as a transplant, officials said Wednesday.

They said it was the first such organ trafficking racket uncovered in Spain, which is a pioneer in advanced transplants and performs more such operations than any other country in the world.

Spanish consumer prices crept barely higher in February, official data showed Wednesday, as deflationary concerns dogged sluggish eurozone economies.

Prices climbed at an annual rate of just 0.1 percent in February after edging up by 0.3 percent in January, according to Spain's National Statistics Institute.

Dressed in mourning black, Spaniards commemorated Tuesday their country's deadliest peacetime attack, a decade to the day since al-Qaida-inspired bombers blew up four packed commuter trains and killed 191 people.

Relatives of those killed on the trains, which were carrying rush hour passengers from Madrid's suburbs when they exploded on March 11, 2004, wept quietly as the names and ages of the victims were read out at the city's main Atocha railway station.

Five climbers plunged to their deaths from the rocky, snow-covered peaks of a central Spanish mountain range in two accidents at the weekend, rescuers said.

On Sunday, two men and a woman tumbled from the Cuerno del Almanzor, a rocky, tower-shaped formation near Pico Almanzor, the highest mountain in central Spain's Sierra de Gredos range, the emergency services said.

A decade after al-Qaida-inspired bombers blew apart four Madrid commuter trains, killing 191 people, Spain's government warned the country remains a target.

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of Spain's worst terrorist attack, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Islamist extremists were still a threat.