Spain on Thursday published a list of the 13 most-wanted British fugitives thought to be on the run there, including drug dealers and a 78-year-old convicted pedophile.

Police also announced the latest arrests in a crackdown on British suspects in the so-called Costa del Crime in southern Spain: one accused of pedophilia and another of drug-trafficking.

A Spanish court Thursday released a sex killer dubbed "the elevator rapist", the third such convict freed under a European human rights ruling that also benefits the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

Pedro Luis Gallego Fernandez, 53, was sentenced to 273 years in jail in 1995 for raping and killing two girls aged 17 and 19 and a string of other sex attacks.

A Spanish public prosecutor said Thursday he was against indicting King Juan Carlos's youngest daughter, Princess Cristina, in a graft probe that has plunged the royal family into crisis, citing lack of evidence.

"Mere suspicions or conjectures are not valid elements for an indictment," Pedro Horrach, the chief anti-corruption prosecutor in Spain's Balearic Islands said in a report submitted to the court investigating the case.

Spanish inflation slowed to zero in October, official data showed, in line with falling rates around Europe which have raised the risk of deflation that could threaten economic recovery.

Spain's inflation rate, a measure of the rise in consumer prices, slowed by half a percentage point from the previous month to zero in October, the National Statistics Institute said.

To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation.

The woman has taken her neighbors in the apartment below — a 27-year-old pianist and her parents — to court. Now prosecutors want to send all three to jail for over seven years on charges of psychological damage and noise pollution.

A Spanish court approved Friday the extradition to Kazakhstan of the former chief of security of exiled oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov despite warning from rights groups that he will face torture.

Aleksandr Pavlov was arrested in Spain in December 2012 after his name was placed on Interpol's wanted list at the request of Kazakh authorities who accuse him of embezzlement and plotting terrorist attacks. He denies the allegations against him.

Spain has released a member of the far-left group Grapo who was arrested last year in connection with the kidnapping and death of a Spanish businessman in 1995, officials announced Friday.

The Spanish high court ruled the detention of Antonio Ramon Teijelo depended on just one uncorroborated source and there was no flight risk given his "precarious health".

A Spanish court on Friday ordered the release of nine imprisoned members of armed Basque separatist group ETA after a European rights ruling that is opening the jail doors for dozens of the militants.

Many Spaniards are outraged by the release of ETA prisoners convicted of deadly shootings and bombings in a violent campaign to carve out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.

Rubbish piled up in the gutters of Madrid on Thursday as a strike by street-sweepers facing sackings and salary cuts began to leave its mark on the major tourist destination.

Public bins overflowed with drinks cans and cigarette ends and central squares such as the Puerta del Sol were strewn with waste paper as the open-ended strike entered its third day.

Spain's northern Catalonia region will ban its police force from firing rubber balls, a local party spokesman said Thursday, after accusations of aggressive tactics.

The decision comes after a woman was blinded in her left eye at a protest in Barcelona during a general strike on November 14 last year after she says she was struck by a rubber ball fired by police.