The operation came just days after another boat capsized off the Gambian coast killing more than 30 people.

The Pope was at a special audience in the Vatican to meet with volunteers and partners of last year's Papal Jubilee, a ...

Spain had long lobbied for Francis to visit, but over 12 years he always declined. Francis preferred to travel to smaller ...

Spain had long lobbied for Francis to visit. But over 12 years he always declined, preferring to travel to farther flung ...

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is planning to travel to Spain this year, with stops in Madrid, Barcelona ...

Mirta Ojito's "Deeper Than the Ocean" resurrects the forgotten story of the Valbanera, a Spanish ship that sank during a 1919 ...

Thousands of Africans desperate for better opportunities in Europe risk their lives traveling on boats along the Atlantic ...

The Canary Islands offer summer temperatures year-round–and are among the most popular vacation destinations in Europe.

A team of researchers from the University of La Laguna and the Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands has demonstrated that a mass mortality event between 2022 and 2023 ...

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and seagrass, they control algal growth and promote the survival of slow-growing ...

Last week’s military takeover in Guinea-Bissau is the latest in a series of coups that has engulfed west Africa in recent years. Almost all have taken place in the Sahel, the semi-arid belt below the ...