Tens of thousands of people in Spain's Canary Islands have rallied against a model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago.
The protesters want limits on tourist numbers and curbs on what they describe as uncontrolled (...)
Improved weather conditions helped firefighters make advances overnight in their battle to tame a wildfire raging out of control for the past five days on the tourist island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, authorities said Sunday.
"The night (...)
Tour de France champions Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador trained together Wednesday for the first time since the American came out of retirement to join the Astana team.
Armstrong and Contador were paired in one of three groups of riders, (...)
The Great Canary Telescope, one of the world's largest and most powerful, opened its shutters, turned its vast 10.4 meter (34-feet) wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands on (...)
FIVE AFRICAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
DIED DURING AN ATTEMPT TO CROSS TO SPAIN BY SEA IN A BOAT CARRYING 40
PASSENGERS, WHILE THREE OTHERS AFRICANS WERE IN CRITICAL CONDITION,
AUTHORITIES ON THE ISLAND OF TENERIFE SAID FRIDAY,DPA REPORTED
ELSEWHERE IN (...)
