Fan-sellers were doing good business in the southern city of Seville on Saturday as Spain sizzled in the hottest pre-summer heatwave for at least 20 years.
Carriage drivers dampened down horses who take tourists around the historic sights of Seville (...)
Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona thrashed Athletic Bilbao 4-0 in Saturday's Copa del Rey final to win the trophy for a record-extending 31st time, Reuters reported.
Antoine Griezmann put a dominant Barca ahead on the hour when he turned in a (...)
Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona thrashed Athletic Bilbao 4-0 in Saturday's Copa del Rey final to win the trophy for a record-extending 31st time, Reuters reported.
Antoine Griezmann put a dominant Barca ahead on the hour when he turned in a (...)
Real Madrid earned a scrappy 1-0 victory at Sevilla on Saturday thanks to an own goal from keeper Bono to snap a three-game winless run in La Liga and ease the pressure on coach Zinedine Zidane, Reuters reported.
The only goal came in the 56th (...)
Valencia beat Barcelona 2-1 to win the Copa del Rey on Saturday, ending the Spanish champions' four-year winning streak in the competition and denying them a domestic double.
Kevin Gameiro and Rodrigo Moreno struck first-half goals to give (...)
Lionel Messi was lauded by opposition supporters Sunday after he scored an outstanding hat trick in Barcelona's 4-1 win at Real Betis, which put the Catalans 10 points clear at the top of La Liga with 10 games remaining.
With Barca's nearest (...)
Lionel Messi scored his 50th career hat trick to fire Barcelona to a 4-2 win at Sevilla Saturday after the champion had twice fallen behind, giving the Catalans a 10-point lead at the top of La Liga.
Sevilla, which has only won once in the league in (...)
Lionel Messi scored his 50th career hat-trick to fire Barcelona to a 4-2 win at Sevilla on Saturday after the champions had twice fallen behind, giving the Catalans a 10-point lead at the top of La Liga.
Sevilla, who have only won once in the league (...)
Real Betis captain Joaquin scored a remarkable goal straight from a corner in his side's Copa del Rey semifinal first leg at home to Valencia on Thursday, but the visitors fought back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw.
Kevin Gameiro grabbed a (...)
Atletico Madrid fell to its first La Liga defeat in five months as it was beaten 1-0 at Real Betis Sunday, missing a golden chance to close the gap with leader Barcelona and slipping six points adrift of the Catalans.
Alvaro Morata made his debut (...)
Sevilla produced a brilliant second-half display to beat Barcelona 2-0 in their Copa del Rey quarterfinal, first leg on Wednesday, leaving the holders with an uphill task to reach the last four.
After an even first 45 minutes, strikes from Pablo (...)
Former US PGA Championship winner Shaun Micheel is hoping a change in putter will help end a nine-year winless drought after posting a 5-under-par 67 on a rain-lashed first day of the 100th Spanish Open.
Micheel, ranked 608th in the world, led by (...)
Spain's Socialist Party elected former
interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba its new leader on Saturday,
giving him a tight victory at a congress in the southern city of
Seville, dpa reported.
The 60-year-old veteran politician was seen to (...)
Fresh from helping Spain win its fifth Davis Cup, Rafael Nadal revealed that he won't play in the event next year and will instead focus on defending his gold medal at the London Olympics.
Nadal rallied to beat Juan Martin del Potro 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, (...)
Rafa Nadal mounted a thrilling comeback back from a set down to beat Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 and secure Spain's fifth Davis Cup tennis triumph Sunday.
The world No. 2, who demolished Juan Monaco in Friday's opening (...)
David Nalbandian and Eduardo Schwank trounced Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 to secure Argentina's first point of the Davis Cup final Saturday and keep the best-of-five tie alive ahead of Sunday's reverse singles.
After (...)
Spanish star Rafael Nadal Tuesday played down the pressure the hosts will be under ahead of their Davis Cup final against Argentina here this weekend.
“We're under the same pressure as they are, we have to win the Davis Cup,” insisted the world No. (...)
Sevilla came from a goal down to beat an under-strength Barcelona 3-1 in the first leg of the Spanish Supercup Saturday.
Supercup-holder Barcelona will host the return leg next Saturday between the league winner and Copa del Rey champion (...)
The rupture of a water pipe has left 60,000
Spaniards in the south of the country without water as temperatures
reach nearly 40 degrees Celsius, dpa cited sources at the local water company
as saying today.
The accident affected four (...)
The Airbus A400M military transport plane
completed a successful first test flight Friday in the Spanish city
of Seville, nearly two years later than planned, according to dpa.
However, the euphoria produced by the aircraft"s flawless (...)
A dazzling run of seven successive birdies helped Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen take a one-shot lead after the Andalucia Open third round on Saturday.
Kjeldsen also picked up a late eagle to break the Real Club course record, and his career-best score, (...)
Germany's Marcel Siem stayed unusually calm to take the Andalucia Open second round lead on Friday while 2010 Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie slipped back after a level-par 72.
Siem hit seven birdies in a five-under-par 67 to finish nine-under (...)
Colin Montgomerie celebrated his 500th European Tour event as a professional by carding a 67 to lie just one stroke off the Andalucia Open first-round lead on Thursday.
Fellow Briton Chris Doak overhauled Montgomerie when the 31-year-old rookie (...)
Chelsea captain John Terry has dropped a strong hint that a revolt by some of the club's players triggered the dismisssal of Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Although he insisted that he personally had been shocked by Scolari's sacking and described the (...)
A moderate earthquake rattled five southern
Spanish provinces on Thursday causing people to run into the streets
in panic, DPA reported.
No injuries or significant damage were reported from the quake,
which measured 4.3 on the Richter (...)
