The Pigeon Express
A Spanish fishing trawler sank off Canada’s east coast overnight on Monday, with 10 people dead and 11 missing, Spanish and Canadian rescuers said. Rescuers managed to save three crew members after the boat went down some 250 nautical miles east of Newfoundland, Canada’s Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) said. Spain’s transport ministry said there […]
Eight camels and a llama were found walking the streets of Madrid in the early hours of Friday after escaping from a circus, police said. Quiros Circus, their owner, blamed “sabotage” by animal rights activists. They were spotted around 5:00am local time in the southern district of Carabanchel, near where the circus is based. Officers […]
María Mendiola died at the age of 69. The singer, who was one half of the Spanish duo Baccara, died in Madrid surrounded by her family on Saturday morning. “My dear Maria, a wonderful artist but above all my friend left us today,” her bandmate Cristina Sevilla wrote on Instagram, announcing the news. “I can […]
A Rossiya Boeing 777-300ER cargo plane made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Friday due to a problem with an engine control sensor, the airline said. The 15 year-old plane according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24 was fitted with General Electric engines. Those are different from the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines under […]
A woman lost her eye in protests against the arrest of rap artist Pablo Hasel in Spain as police fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. The woman was reportedly hit by a police rubber bullet during a rally on Tuesday in Barcelona, AP news agency reported on Thursday. The injury was caused by […]
An explosion in the Spanish capital, Madrid has killed three and caused a building to partially collapse. A fourth person was reported missing. City officials said the explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed all the four floors of the building. Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was […]
Five regions in Spain went into a red alert after a winter storm Filomena caused chaos across the country. The country’s capital Madrid was particularly affected, prompting the closure of Barajas airport and leaving hundreds of motorists stranded on roads. A couple died after they were trapped in their car when a river burst its banks […]
About 23,000 baby chicks died after being abandoned in transit at Madrid Barajas airport in Spain. The birds, who were only a few days old, had been left outside in cardboard boxes for three days without food or water, according to a press release from Spain’s National Police published Wednesday. There were 26,000 chicks in […]
A live opera in Madrid was halted after audience members protested over concerns that seating was too crowded in the venue. The Teatro Real in Spain’s capital city was forced to cancel the performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera” after a group of spectators staged a protest during the performance, eventually ending the […]
Hundreds of residents in Madrid protested against the new lockdown measures imposed amid the rising coronavirus numbers. The curbs start on Monday and affect 850,000 people, many in areas of lower income and with higher immigrant populations. Protesters said they felt abandoned and called for better health provisions. Spain has the highest number of coronavirus […]
At least one hundred thousand mink at a farm in north-eastern Spain are to be culled after many of them tested positive for coronavirus. The outbreak in Aragón province was discovered after a farm employee’s wife contracted the virus in May. Her husband and six other farm workers have since tested positive for the disease. […]
Spanish Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma has become the first royal to dies due to coronavirus complications. According to Fox News, the 86-year-old was a cousin of Spain’s King Felipe VI. Her brother Prince Sixto Enrique de Borbon, the Duke of Aranjuez, announced on Facebook that she died after contracting COVID-19. The post reads, “On […]