King Philip II of Spain decreed Madrid – a somewhat sleepy mountain town in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula – the capital ...

Power outages are nothing new. But the Spain-Portugal blackouts underscore fundamental problems with the supposedly ...

A crowd at the zoo cheers on an elephant as it rescues a drowning gazelle with its trunk in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Among ...

A widespread blackout across Spain, Portugal and southern France raises serious questions about the efficacy of the EU’s ...

The Treasure of Villena, as the cache of 66 mostly gold objects is known, was discovered more than 60 years ago in 1963 in ...

Considered the Holy Grail of all shipwrecks, the Spanish galleon San Jose blew up and sank in 1708 at the hands of British ...

Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

The manhandling of California Sen. Alex Padilla and his subsequent depiction by conservatives as a modern-day Pancho Villa ...

Spain's energy companies Iberdrola and Endesa have sent a proposal to review the nuclear phase-out calendar, an Energy ...

The UK is gearing up for a scorching conclusion to the week as a surge of hot air from the Iberian Peninsula threatens to ...

The UK is set to experience a sizzling conclusion to the week as a surge of hot air from the Iberian Peninsula threatens to ...

Researchers have used an unmanned underwater vehicle to carry out a non-intrusive investigation of an 18th-century AD ...