Public workers, small political parties and non-profit organizations will stage protests Saturday against government austerity measures in dozens of Spanish cities, with the biggest demonstration expected to be held in Madrid.

Nurses, doctors, students, miners and members of Spain's "indignant" movement against economic inequality are set to join in the so-called "citizens' tide" against the steep spending cuts and tax hikes imposed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government to slash the public deficit.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared Wednesday he had saved the country from economic disaster and vowed to crack down on corruption, in his first state of the nation address as he fended off a party slush-fund scandal.

The conservative 57-year-old leader lamented Spain's jobless queue of nearly six million people and a jobless rate of more than 26 percent, but vowed to press ahead with his program of budget restraint and economic reforms.

Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has described Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho's management style as 'aggressive' and far different to his own.

Del Bosque, a former Madrid manager and the man in charge when they last won the European Cup in 2002, did though reject the idea that he was missed by his old club. "There are many varying factors like the character and personality of the coach," he told an event hosted by Marca Espana, a political body that promotes the image of Spain at home and abroad.

Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize medical services.

Several thousand people marched to Madrid's central Plaza de Cibeles from 27 hospitals in the region, waving signs that read "Your health is being sold" and "Cutting back on health care is a crime".

Spanish police and Europol, the European Union's police coordination agency, have busted a global cybercrime operation that infected millions of computers, a source in the investigation told Agence France Presse.

The network used malicious software to block computers and send a message claiming to be from police demanding the user pay a fine for allegedly accessing child pornography sites, the source said.

A suspected Islamist detained last week for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Spain and elsewhere in Europe was remanded in custody on Monday, a court official said.

Police detained Mohamed Echaabi, a 22-year-old Moroccan, on Thursday in the eastern city of Valencia.

U.S. firm Las Vegas Sands said Friday it was set to go ahead with building a huge casino near Madrid, which could create hundreds of thousands of jobs at a time of record unemployment in Spain.

The controversial "Eurovegas" project plans to build four casino complexes with 12 hotels providing 36,000 rooms, nine theaters, three golf courses, and convention centers over 10-15 years.

Spanish police arrested a suspected Islamist for plotting terrorist attacks in Spain and elsewhere in Europe, authorities said Friday.

They arrested Mohamed Echaabi, a 22-year-old Moroccan, on Thursday in the eastern city of Valencia.

Spanish police on Thursday defused a nail bomb found next to a confessional in the Almudena Cathedral in the historic heart of Madrid, officials said.

A priest found the bomb in a bin bag and evacuated the cathedral, a tourist attraction next to the city's old royal palace, a spokesman for the archbishopric of Madrid told AFP.

A petition calling for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign over a corruption scandal has garnered more than a million signatures, an online count showed on Thursday.

The petition at change.org was sparked by the publication of documents purportedly showing that Rajoy and other members of his conservative Popular Party had received undeclared payments.