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

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

Roberto Scarrone, the cousin of the iconic player from the 1930 Uruguay side that won the first-ever World Cup, fielded his ...

The two versions of Maimonides’ principles, Ani Ma’amin and Yigdal, were composed after Maimonides wrote the principles. Yigdal has many melodies. In 1950, Leonard Bernstein set the hymn to music.

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

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

Historians have long viewed Carpetania, an ancient district in what is now the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, as a passive player ...

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

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

Uncorroborated claims that Spanish authorities experimented with the electricity grid just before the April blackout are ...

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

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