Barcelona has increased its Spanish league lead by coming from behind to defeat Atletico Madrid 3-1.

Defensive lapses cost Manchester City and Barcelona dearly as both teams slumped to notable losses in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Real Madrid has been held to a 2-2 draw at Elche in the Spanish league to see its winless streak extend to three matches in all competitions.

Rosalía has won over millions of music lovers for her fusions of flamenco and urban Latin beats.

Barcelona’s next Champions League match at home will be at the renovated Camp Nou stadium with a partial capacity.

Barcelona will be back at the Camp Nou for its Spanish league match against Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.

Robert Lewandowski grabbed a hat trick and Lamine Yamal scored the other goal as Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 4-2 to move within three points of Spanish league leader Real Madrid.

Construction cranes loomed overhead and there were gaping holes in the upper tier but Barcelona’s team and several thousand paying fans were finally back inside Camp Nou on Friday for the first time in over two years.

Inter Milan remained among the teams with a perfect record by beating Kairat 2-1 in the Champions League, while Barcelona was held 3-3 at Club Brugge and Erling Haaland extended his scoring streak in Manchester City’s 4-1 home win over Borussia Dortmund.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica has become the world’s tallest church.

The day after the first clasico of the season saw Real Madrid celebrating the end of its losing streak against Barcelona, and hailing the return to form of Jude Bellingham.

Real Madrid has ended its four-game losing streak against rival Barcelona with a 2-1 victory in the first clasico of the season.

Villarreal has blamed poor management by the Spanish league for the cancellation of its planned regular-season game against Barcelona in the United States.

Paris Saint-Germain scored seven, Barcelona hit six and Erling Haaland struck his 24th goal of the season on an action-packed night in the Champions League.

A potential stadium conflict could arise if the Miami Hurricanes host a first-round College Football Playoff game.

Arsenal has started its Women’s Champions League defense with a 2-1 loss to Lyon on Tuesday.

Goncalo Ramos struck a 90th-minute winner as Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 2-1 in the Champions League.

Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembélé has won the Ballon d’Or.

Barcelona says its upcoming Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain will be played at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, its home for the previous two seasons.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower over the coming months and become the tallest Christian church in Europe.

Marcus Rashford proved the perfect replacement for Lamine Yamal in Barcelona’s 2-1 win at Newcastle in the Champions League and Kevin De Bruyne watched mostly from the sideline as Napoli lost 2-0 at his former club Manchester City.

Residents of Santiago de Compostela are struggling with overtourism.

A flotilla carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza has left Barcelona's port for a second time after the vessels were forced to return a day earlier because of bad weather conditions.

A flotilla of ships has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid and activists on board.

At the Champions League draw in Monaco this week, UEFA hosted European soccer officials and marketing executives from the United States with a radical plan on their minds.

The startup Olympic-style sports festival promising no drug testing has filed an $800 million antitrust lawsuit against its main critics for what it claims is an illegal campaign to make athletes boycott its own event.

Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembélé and England forward Chloe Kelly are among the contenders to win the men’s and women’s Ballon d’Or award.

The women's soccer players of Spain have gone from nobodies to title contenders in less than a decade.

The cruel heat is back as southern Europe slips deeper into summer.

When it comes to weight-resistance exercise, you can choose free weights such as dumbbells or barbells.

Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer on Tuesday.

The Spanish Football Federation says midfielder Aitana Bonmatí has rejoined the Spain squad in Switzerland ahead of the team's opener in the Women’s European Championship on Thursday.

The Spanish soccer federation says midfielder Aitana Bonmatí has left the hospital and is expected to rejoin the Spain squad in the next few days to try to play in the Women’s European Championship.

Major heat waves have pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit in southern European countries including Italy, Spain and Greece.

Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmatí, the two-time Ballon d’Or holder, has been hospitalized with viral meningitis less than a week before the Women’s European Championship begins.

The Spanish league says four people who hung an effigy of Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior off a highway bridge two years ago have been convicted.

The humble water gun — the cheap, squirt-squirt variety — has become the weapon of choice and symbol of Spain's anti-tourism protests.

Water guns are back squirting at unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona.

Referees at the Club World Cup will wear eye-level cameras to finally allow fans to see exactly what the officials are looking at during a soccer match.

Oscar Piastri has won the Spanish Grand Prix ahead of McLaren teammate Lando Norris as McLaren continued its early dominance of the Formula 1 championship.

Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.

Lionel Messi has revealed his favorite goal, and it wasn’t one of the hundreds he has scored with his legendary left foot.

American Magic has put its participation in the next America’s Cup in serious doubt after it cited what it considered “transparency” concerns related to Team New Zealand’s decision to hold the 2027 regatta in Naples, Italy.

Spain’s government says it has ordered Airbnb to block more than 65,000 holiday listings on its platform for having violated rules.

When Lionel Messi left Barcelona it looked like generation would have to go by before another player of his incredible talent would don the burgundy and blue.

Barcelona has clinched its 28th Spanish league title after Lamine Yamal starred in its 2-0 win at crosstown rival Espanyol.

DeVonta Smith enjoyed his first international game experience last September when the Philadelphia Eagles opened what became a Super Bowl championship season by beating the Green Bay Packers in Brazil in the NFL’s first game in South America.

Barcelona took a huge step to securing the Spanish league title with a 4-3 win over Real Madrid despite Kylian Mbappé’s hat trick in a mesmerizing “clasico” and opened a seven-point lead over its second-placed rival with three matches remaining.

Inter Milan beat Barcelona 4-3 after extra time in another rollercoaster encounter to reach a second Champions League final in three years.

Scoring three away goals should make Inter Milan feel confident heading into the return leg of its Champions League semifinal against Barcelona.

Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi says talents like Barcelona's Lamine Yamal come around only once in a half century.

Barcelona and Inter Milan have delivered a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal.

A widespread blackout across Spain and Portugal upended the lives of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula.

Electricity has returned to Spain and Portugal, but the cause of Monday's widespread blackout remains a mystery.

A blackout has brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, affecting millions of people.

Four teams are left in the Champions League.

Serhou Guirassy has scored a hat trick and still ended up on the losing side as Borussia Dortmund’s 3-1 win over Barcelona wasn’t enough to prevent a 5-3 aggregate loss to Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals.

Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski have struck again to lead Barcelona to a commanding 4-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels.

The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects worldwide and firing staff following funding cuts led by the United States.

Emergency services in southern Spain are searching for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes.

A transformation of women’s soccer in Europe is well under way.

Renault is testing a new driverless mini-bus in Barcelona this week.

Paris Saint-Germain has defeated Liverpool in a penalty shootout to join Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Defending champion Real Madrid, Liverpool and Barcelona all have one-goal leads to protect going into the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 this week.

Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league.

Barcelona’s home game against Osasuna in the Spanish league was postponed after the death of first-team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia.

A Madrid derby.

Liverpool became the first team to guarantee a place in the last 16 of the new Champions League format by beating Lille 2-1 on Tuesday, while Barcelona fought back from two goals down to stun Benfica 5-4 in a thriller.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Real Madrid came out looking for some payback in the latest “clasico” against Barcelona but ended up being embarrassed again.

A network of faith-based organizations minister to seafarers in hundreds of the world’s ports.

Barcelona's subway system is using regenerative braking to help power both its convoys but also recharge electric cars at street level.

The group behind a breakaway European soccer competition to rival the Champions League has resurfaced.

Robert Lewandowski joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as the only players in Champions League history with 100 or more goals.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards are marching in downtown Barcelona to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination.

A Spanish court has upheld a ruling that a supermarket worker was unlawfully fired for having eaten a croquette that was going to be thrown away after not having been sold from the store’s deli section.

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to help in the increasingly desperate search for the missing from Spain’s floods.

Barcelona and Inter Milan won again in the Champions League on Wednesday though both former title holders are looking up in the standings toward upstart newcomer Brest.

Premier League leader Liverpool moved level on points with Aston Villa at the top of the Champions League standings by extending its perfect record to three wins, and Manchester City set a new record for the most consecutive games undefeated in the history of the competition.

Emirates Team New Zealand has opened up a 3-0 lead over INEOS Britannia in the first-to-seven wins finals of the 37th America’s Cup.

Emirates Team New Zealand have won the opening two races of the America’s Cup final against INEOS Britannia off Barcelona.

Andrés Iniesta has announced his retirement from soccer.

A British yacht is back in the America’s Cup finals for the first time since 1964 after INEOS Britannia finished off Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.

Barcelona has added former Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny to its squad to help make up for the absence of the injured Marc-André ter Stegen.

Karim Adeyemi starred as Borussia Dortmund has run riot against Celtic while Barcelona and Manchester City claimed their first wins in the restructured Champions League.

Robert Lewandowski was on target again and Barcelona extended its perfect start to the Spanish league season.

Two of the world’s most exciting young players shone on club soccer’s biggest stage but with mixed fortunes.

Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Britain’s INEOS Britannia are on the verge of advancing in the America’s Cup after extending their leads in the semifinals.

Filming “Emily in Paris” in Rome has given star Lily Collins a confidence boost ahead of her West End debut.

Sweden says children under the age of 2 should not be exposed to any digital screens.

Switzerland’s Alinghi Red Bull Racing couldn’t make the start of one of its races because of a mainsail issue.

Ilkay Gundogan is back at Manchester City for a sequel few could have expected.

Police in Barcelona have detained a fourth man accused of participating in the stabbing of the father of 17-year-old Spain soccer star Lamine Yamal.

Real Madrid was one of the teams to beat in Europe last season, winning the Spanish league with ease and adding another Champions League trophy to its collection.

Police have launched a manhunt in Barcelona for ex-Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont.

Imagine planning a vacation and not being able to check Airbnb or another online booking site for an apartment in which to spend a few days living among the locals.

Spain's government says it will temporarily eliminate the sales tax on olive oil to help cushion skyrocketing prices.

A fire has forced the McLaren Formula 1 team to evacuate its hospitality suite at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says police are investigating an email sent to motorsport journalists and Formula 1 teams claiming Mercedes is sabotaging the performances of Lewis Hamilton following his decision to leave for Ferrari.