Uber argued Thursday that it should not have to turn over ride data in a California regulatory standoff that shows how the transportation service is falling afoul of officials who could threaten its expansion.
French lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to recognize Palestine, a symbolic move that will not immediately affect France's diplomatic stance but demonstrates growing European impatience with a stalled peace process.
France warned on Friday it would recognize a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a U.N.-backed resolution.
European leaders met on Thursday to forge energy policy to cut climate-warming gas emissions in the years to 2030, but haggled into the night over how to share out the costs of a deal.
Tens of thousands of Catalans crowded central Barcelona on Sunday calling for early regional elections after plans for a Nov. 9 referendum on independence from Spain were declared illegal by Madrid.
The leader of Catalonia has set up a panel to supervise a contested independence referendum next month, defying Spain's central government which has gone to the courts to block the vote.
Lawyers representing 40 top women's soccer players challenged FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) on Friday by saying they would file a lawsuit against them over staging next year's women's World Cup in Canada on artificial turf.
A record tourism year may be a boost for Spain's struggling economy, but in one corner of Barcelona residents are furious about drunken holidaymakers and a new fad for carousing naked in public.
Angel de Castro, who owns a newspaper kiosk, is worried about his World Cup merchandise, which consist of flags and scarves of the country's national colors. He told Bloomberg that he will surely incur a loss of income now that Spain has been ousted out of the World Cup.
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, commenting on his government's move to curtail future probes into international crimes against humanity, said that the government should not prioritize economic gains in terms of diplomacy over serving swift justice against human rights abusers.
The proposed reforms to roll back the existing abortion laws in Spain had drawn ire mostly from womens' groups. The reform, said the Guardian, intends to abolish abortion completely in the country in the near future.
Spanish authorities said the railway company Renfe confirmed that a train has derailed in northwestern Spain, killing at least 10 people, BBC News reported. The Spanish railway company Renfe confirmed that the train fell off the tracks near the city of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region, which is in the nortwest of the country. The death toll is expected to rise
