La Liga champions Barcelona fell to their first opening day defeat of the season in 11 years when they were beaten 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao thanks to a sensational late overhead kick from veteran striker Aritz Aduriz.
The 38-year-old came off the (...)
Barcelona's two-year reign of the Copa del Rey was in jeopardy after it lost to a nine-man Athletic Bilbao 2-1 at a packed San Mames Stadium Thursday.
Athletic played a man down from the 74th minute, and two men down from the 80th because of red (...)
Belgium's Jens Keukeleire won a bunch sprint to clinch the 12th stage of the Vuelta a Espana Thursday as Nairo Quintana retained the overall lead.
The 193.2km hilly race to Basque city Bilbao allowed Colombian Quintana and second-placed Chris Froome (...)
Aritz Aduriz's second half hat-trick sent Barcelona spinning to a shock 4-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao, in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Friday, Reuters reported.
An under-strength Barca side were seeking their fifth trophy of the year (...)
A peace movement set up 28 years
ago to counter the violence of the Basque militant group ETA
formally dissolved on Saturday, saying that it had achieved its
objective now that ETA has laid down its arms, Reuters reported.
Three hundred people (...)
place Racing Santander toward near-certain relegation from the Spanish league Sunday with a 1-0 away win through an early goal from Gaizka Toquero.
The Basque striker ran onto Ander Herrera's through pass and scored with a shot inside the far post (...)
Awwal 26, 1432, March 01, 2011, SPA --Spanish police have dismantled a cell of the armed Basque separatist group "ETA," detaining four suspects, police said Tuesday.
The four were held overnight in the Basque city of Bilbao and its surroundings. (...)
Spanish police today discovered 84
kilograms of explosives in an arms cache belonging to the militant
Basque separatist group ETA, dpa quoted police sources as saying.
The cache was one of five in the Basque region. Their locations
were (...)
England striker Jermain Defoe scored five second-half goals as an irresistible Tottenham Hotspur demolished Wigan Athletic 9-1 to go fourth in the Premier League Sunday.
Defoe stunned the hapless visitors and equalled the league's single match (...)
Xavi Hernandez and Pedro Rodriguez scored in the second half to give Barcelona a 2-1 win over Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of the Spanish Supercup Sunday.
After Oscar de Marcos opened for the hosts in the 45th minute at the San Mames stadium, (...)
Spanish authorities are increasing pressure
on supporters of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, banning
pro-ETA rallies and ordering the removal of pro-ETA posters from
public places, several media reported Thursday, according to dpa.
The (...)
Thousands of people in the Spanish city of Bilbao
demonstrated against the Basque separatist organization ETA on
Saturday, one day after the murder of a policeman in the region, according to dpa.
Under banners reading "For Freedom, No to ETA," (...)
Sixteen people were injured Monday in northern Spain when a bus collided with a lorry and overturned on rail tracks, DPA quoted police as saying.
The accident occurred on a road linking the Basque towns of Amorebieta and Gernika. At least two of (...)
Suspected members of the militant Basque
separatist group ETA planted a bomb in the northern Spanish city of
Bilbao early Thursday, causing slight injuries to seven police
officers, sources at the Interior Ministry said, according to dpa.
The (...)
Spanish police said they arrested two suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA on Sunday, both of whom figured on the 'most wanted' police list of ETA activists, Reuters reported.
Oroitz Aldekoa-Otalora and Agurne Salterain could be linked (...)
Suspected terrorists of the armed Basque
separatist group ETA bombed the party offices of the Spanish
Socialists in the Basque region, the Basque Interior Ministry said
Tuesday, according to DPA.
Nobody was injured, but the bomb attack caused (...)
Several thousand people protested a ban on a congress planned by outlawed Basque separatist party Batasuna in northern Spain Saturday, according to DPA.
The demonstrators, including Batasuna party leader Arnaldo Otegi, gathered in front of the (...)
Thirty people were injured Sunday in a train accident in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, authorities confirmed.
The train, enroute to Bilbao from the eastern town of Durango, hit a buffer as it entered the station.
The casualties included (...)
