Thousands of residents of La Palma in the Canary Islands have been urged to leave their homes as emergency workers try to bring a wildfire under control.
The blaze began early on Saturday and has already consumed 4,500 hectares (11,100 acres) of (...)
Scientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with new technology that will reveal how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.
The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Spain will be able to survey 1,000 stars per (...)
At least 25 migrants are feared to have died at sea during an attempted sea crossing near Spain's Canary Islands.
Spanish police said that several migrants were "thrown overboard" based on survivors' testimonies.
Forty-eight people on the boat (...)
A Ukrainian sailor has admitted trying to sink a yacht owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
The 48m (157ft) Lady Anastasia, which belongs to Rosoboronexport director general Alexander Mikheev, (...)
The La Palma volcano in the Canary Islands, which has been erupting steadily for weeks and shows no immediate sign of ending its activity, has produced a second lava flow that is rapidly approaching the sea.
The flow is 200 meters away from the (...)
Huge rivers of molten rock have been spewing from the crater in recent days after a 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook the island on Thursday and intensified flows.
The quake is the strongest recorded since the Cumbre Vieja volcano -- on the island of (...)
The Spanish island of La Palma has been shaken by the strongest earthquake since last month's volcanic eruption.
A 4.5-magnitude quake struck the Canary Islands overnight, according to Spain's National Geographic Institute.
At least sixty tremors in (...)
Lava flow from a volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has hit a cement factory and industrial estate.
Between 700 and 800 residents have been evacuated from Los Llanos de Aridane due to the northwest advance of the lava.
Authorities have been (...)
Three weeks since its eruption upended the lives of thousands, the volcano on Spain's La Palma island is still spewing out endless streams of lava with no signs of ceasing.
Authorities on Sunday monitored a new stream of molten rock that has added (...)
Earthquakes rattled La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands on Monday, as lava continued to flow from vents in the volcano that has been erupting since Sept. 19.
Officials said they didn't expect to evacuate any more people from the area, because the (...)
The volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands blew open a new fissure on Friday, triggering a series of small earthquakes.Authorities said they have recorded eight new earthquakes up to magnitude 3.5.
They were waiting to see whether lava from (...)
The surface of Spain's La Palma island is expanding as lava from a volcano that erupted 11 days ago has reached the sea.
Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation program, said Thursday that its satellite imagery showed a D-shaped tongue of (...)
Lava from an erupting volcano on Spain's La Palma island has reached the Atlantic Ocean, raising fears of toxic gases being released and explosions, BBC reported on Wednesday.
Clouds of white steam were seen rising as a red-hot current made contact (...)
A church on the Spanish island of La Palma has crumbled under the crushing lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano that erupted a week ago.
On Friday, emergency crews pulled back from the volcano as explosions sent molten rock and ash over a wide (...)
Several small earthquakes shook the Spanish island of La Palma off northwest Africa, keeping nerves on edge as rivers of volcanic lava continued to flow toward the sea on Tuesday and a new vent blew open on the mountainside.
After moving downhill (...)
Local authorities in the Spanish island of La Palma said they've evacuated around 5,000 people in the wake of a volcano eruption on Sunday, after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity.
No injuries have been reported, so far, but the flowing lava (...)
Authorities have evacuated about 5,000 people from villages in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma as lava spews from an erupting volcano, local officials said, according to Reuters.
The 15-meter high lava flow has already swallowed 20 houses in (...)
Real Madrid's unbeaten start to the La Liga season came to an abrupt and surprising end as Real Mallorca claimed a stunning 1-0 victory at a rocking Son Moix on Saturday to climb out of the relegation zone.
The Balearic Islanders had only managed (...)
Real Mallorca made a dream return to La Liga with a 2-1 victory over Eibar at the Estadi Son Moix on Saturday, less than two months after sealing back-to-back promotions to rejoin Spain's soccer elite.
It is holiday season on the Ballaeric island (...)
Spain's Princess Cristina was back in court Tuesday for trial along with 17 others, including her husband, on charges ranging from tax fraud to embezzlement.
Cristina, sister of King Felipe VI, faces two counts of tax fraud carrying a maximum prison (...)
A noisy demonstration disrupted the World Indigenous Games on Wednesday as native Brazilians angry over a land demarcation proposal streamed into the sporting arena, according to AP.
Several hundred indigenous protesters filled the arena during the (...)
An investigation was under way Saturday into the crash of a small plane in Spain that killed three of the four people aboard, authorities said.
The pilot of the single-engine plane was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Palma. A (...)
It would be appropriate to resume direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government within “a few weeks” as long as President Barack Obama has a clear vision of what the role of the US should be in the negotiations, (...)
