A 15ft long great white shark called Lydia has been spotted swimming towards the Cornish coastline in Britain, and is expected to arrive in UK waters by Monday.

Madrid - Barcelona could be boosted by a return to the top of La Liga just three days before they host Manchester City in the Champions League with a win away to Valladolid on Saturday.The Catalans trail leaders Real Madrid by a point, but with Los Blancos not ...

Madrid - A plane carrying Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy from Dublin to Madrid returned to the Irish capital on Friday shortly after takeoff because a warning light came on, officials said.

- Nike will supply the kit for more teams than Adidas for the first time ever at this year's World Cup finals.The two sports giants will throw Lionel Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo and Spain against Brazil to see who can claim a bigger chunk of the mult...

Madrid - Russia said Wednesday it has no authority over pro-Moscow forces that have taken de-facto control of the Ukraine's majority-Russian Crimean Peninsula.A day after US President Barack Obama said Russia was "not fooling anybody" over its role in Ukraine, ...

Geneva - The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) steps up its campaign this week for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.

Barcelona - Barcelona captain Carles Puyol, 35, announced on Tuesday that he will leave the club at the end of the season after a decorated 15-year career at the Camp Nou.Puyol, who did not reveal whether he will continue playing elsewhere, has been plagued by inj...

Barcelona - Spanish star chef Ferran Adria unveiled plans on Tuesday to open a "cooking laboratory", museum and database of top recipes at his world-beating restaurant elBulli.Adria, whose eatery was crowned best in the world five times by Britain's Restaurant mag...

Madrid - Spain's government hailed Tuesday a wafer-thin cut in the nation's jobless queues in February, a fresh sign that the labour market is stabilising after the loss of millions of jobs since 2008.The number of people registered as unemployed dipped by just...

Madrid - IMF chief Christine Lagarde declared Monday that Spain's economy has "turned the corner" but warned it must now focus on creating jobs to battle a 26-percent unemployment rate.Spain's economy grew in the second half of 2013 after a two-year downturn, t...

Madrid - IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged the eurozone on Monday to fight persistently low inflation, warning that it presents a looming threat to economic recovery in the region.Key risks menace the 18-nation eurozone even as it emerges from recession, the In...

Madrid - Cristiano Ronaldo equalised eight minutes from time as Real Madrid remained on top of La Liga thanks to a pulsating 2-2 draw against Atletico Madrid at the Vicente Calderon.Karim Benzema had fired Real into a third minute lead when he converted Angel d...

Madrid - Real Madrid head into the fourth Madrid derby of the season at Atletico on Sunday following their 6-1 thrashing of Schalke in the Champions League and buoyed by the return of Cristiano Ronaldo.After losing 1-0 at home to Atletico in La Liga back in Sep...

Algeciras - Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday in Algeciras in southern Spain to bid farewell to renowned flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, who was laid to rest in his native Andalusian village.A crowd of fans of the musician, who died in Mexico on Tuesday age...

Scientists have mapped the partial genetic structure of a common lactic acid bacterium. This bacterium is key to a good bottle of wine.

Madrid - The Basque group ETA announced Saturday it would put its arsenal of weapons "under seal" and "out of operational use", in a move towards a historic disarmament by western Europe's last major violent separatist movement.In a statement published in the B...

Madrid - Spaniards from all walks of life flocked as devoted fans to a Madrid music hall on Friday to pay their final respects to flamenco guitar virtuoso Paco de Lucia.

Madrid - More than 200 migrants stormed across a triple-layer border fence into Spain's north African territory of Melilla on Friday, Spanish authorities said, in one of the largest such crossings in years.

A mother had given birth to a baby by Cesarian section, but every time the medical staff tried to take the baby away for cleaning and checking over, the child continued to cling to the mother.

Madrid - Spain's inflation rate dropped to zero in February, an official estimate showed Friday, as fears of a damaging deflationary spiral haunted sluggish eurozone economies.Consumer prices were unchanged in February after edging up by just 0.3 percent in Jan...