Glaciers nestled in the lofty crags of the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain could disappear within 30 years as temperatures rise, upending ecosystems while putting local economies at risk, scientists say. "We can't set a precise date but the Pyrenees glaciers are doomed," Pierre ...
New boss Quique Setien has difficult task of replacing injured Luis Suarez at Barcelona
Quique Setien's first task at Barcelona will be a difficult one: Replace injured striker Luis Suarez. Just before Setien arrived at the Camp Nou, Suarez was ruled out for fourth months with a knee injury, and now it will be up to the new coach ...
Emergency services say a chemical emergency alert has been activated in northeastern Spain following a big explosion in an industrial zone near Tarragona. A tweet by emergency services for the Catalonia region called the blast a "chemical accident" and advised residents to refrain from going ...
Fugitive Catalan Carles Puigdemont arrives for work at EU Parliament
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont arrived for his first session as a member of the European Parliament on Monday despite facing an arrest warrant against him in Spain. The former Catalan president and new EU legislator is bent on using the parliament to continue his political ...
Novak Djokovic leads Serbia to win over Spain in ATP Cup final
Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal, again, in a must-win match to keep Serbia in contention. Then he went back on court within an hour and combined with long-time friend Viktor Troicki to clinch the very first ATP Cup. In the country where the seven-time Australian ...
Andres Iniesta says he hopes to finish playing career in Japan
Former Spain and Barcelona great Andres Iniesta hopes to finish his playing career in Japan with J. League's Vissel Kobe, Spanish media reported Thursday. Following rumors of interest from clubs in North America's Major League Soccer, the 34-year-old Iniesta was quoted in the online edition ...
Spain's Pedro Sanchez, seeking to form new government, pledges dialogue with Catalan separatists
Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez, seeking parliament's backing to form a government, pledged to resolve the Catalan dispute through dialogue as he received renewed support from separatists in the restive region. As Sanchez set out his priorities on Saturday in an attempt to end ...
Catalan President Quim Torra disqualified from holding seat in regional parliament
Spain's electoral board on Friday disqualified the regional president of Catalonia from holding a seat in the regional parliament and ruled that another leading separatist imprisoned for sedition is ineligible to take a European Parliament seat he was elected to last year. Both decisions could ...
Bolivia boots Mexican ambassador, Spanish diplomats and security agents
Bolivia's interim president says her government is expelling the top Mexican diplomat in the country over an alleged attempt by members of Bolivia's former government to leave their refuge in the Mexican Embassy with Spanish help and flee the country. Bolivia has also declared two ...
U.K. family who drowned in Spain resort pool didn't know how to swim, reports say
Spanish news reports said Thursday that a member of the British family whose father and two children died in a swimming pool on Christmas Eve has told police that none of the three knew how to swim. Spanish private news agency Europa Press and other ...
The Spanish coast guard said it had rescued about 200 migrants on Christmas Day, plucking them from makeshift boats in the Mediterranean Sea. It said they were saved in a number of separate operations off the coasts of Spain and Morocco, but gave no information ...
Spain's 'El Gordo' Christmas lottery dishes out €2.24 billion in prizes
The lucky holders of ticket number 26590 struck it rich in Spain on Sunday when they won the top prize in the nation's bumper Christmas lottery. The top-prize winning number worth €400,000 ($436,000) fell out of the enormous metallic shuffling bins in a live televised ...
