With so many flashy tablets and high-speed smartphones on display, it's easy to forget the important role low-cost phones play at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Police in Barcelona have arrested 39 members of a suspected Chinese mafia and freed 30 young Chinese women whom they allegedly forced into prostitution, a senior officer of the Catalan regional police told CNN Wednesday.
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About 1,500 tourists were evacuated Tuesday from the Sagrada Familia church, a popular destination for visitors to Barcelona, Spain, after a man set a fire inside, authorities said.
Facing out onto the Mediterranean Sea, with its privileged location on the eastern edge of the Iberian peninsula, Barcelona is Spain's cultural capital -- as well as home to one of Europe's largest ports.
CNN's Jim Boulden explores the latest trends and news at Barcelona's World Mobile Congress.
Last night I watched the movie "Vicki Cristina Barcelona" and, like all movies, it got me thinking. If you haven't seen it, here's the synopsis: two best friends go to Barcelona, Spain, for the summer, one of whom is Cristina, a free spirited, open-minded woman looking not for love but adventure.
The deep-rooted Spanish tradition of bullfighting is under fire in Barcelona and its region of Catalonia, where the regional parliament will vote on Wednesday whether to ban the fights.
A 15-year-old girl died and two other people were hospitalized with severe injuries after an amusement park ride in Barcelona, Spain, broke in midair, a city spokeswoman said.
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured when they were run over by a train in a town south of Barcelona, Spain, a spokesman for Catalonia Emergency Center said Thursday.
Witnesses watched in horror as nearly 30 people were run over by a train while heading to a beach party.
CNN's Al Goodman reports the latest details on a cruise ship struck by giant waves that left two passengers dead.
Two passengers aboard a cruise ship were killed when 26-foot waves crashed into the vessel Wednesday off northeast Spain, officials said. Fourteen others were injured.
An investigation was under way aboard a cruise ship in Barcelona's port on Friday after 26-foot waves crashed into a cruise ship and killed two people off northeast Spain, officials said.
Home video from a German passenger shows a giant wave hitting a cruise ship, as well as some of the damage it caused.
A police informant testified in court on Monday that 11 suspected Islamic militants on trial planned to attack Barcelona's metro last year with suicide bombers, who were to include the informant himself.
Suspected Islamic militants are on trial for a suicide bomb plot on the Barcelona metro. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
Defense attorneys argued Thursday in Madrid that prosecutors have a weak case against 11 suspected Islamic militants charged with plotting suicide attacks on Barcelona's metro last year.
A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona.
A teenage Dutch girl was killed and 19 people were injured when a bus carrying 59 students and teachers from a school in Holland flipped over north of Barcelona early Monday, authorities said.
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Spanish police arrested a man arriving at Barcelona's airport from Chile after determining that the cast on his fractured left leg was made of cocaine, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday.
Police arrested 13 men in Barcelona and Valencia early Tuesday on suspicion of working in an international document forgery ring, possibly with links to Islamic terrorists, a police statement said.
Four boys were killed when hurricane-force winds caused a roof to collapse outside Barcelona, Spain.
Barack Obama sometimes gets ribbed for his outsized ideas, like the massive stage built in Denver, Colorado, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. But an artist in Barcelona, Spain, has outdone even the candidate himself.
Barack Obama sometimes gets ribbed for his outsized ideas, like the massive stage built in Denver, Colorado, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. But an artist in Barcelona, Spain, may be about to outdo the candidate himself.
A Spanish judge has indicted 11 men, most of them from Pakistan, for membership of a terrorist group that allegedly aimed to carry out suicide attacks on Barcelona's mass transit system last January, according to a copy of the indictment viewed by CNN on Thursday.
Several hundred Spanish fishermen went on strike for a third day Wednesday in and around Barcelona to protest high fuel prices, taking a cue from their counterparts in France who have been blockading French ports this week.
The first high-speed trains linking Madrid and Barcelona arrived at their destinations Wednesday, the national train company Renfe said, making their first complete journeys after years of railway construction delays.
Terrorist suspects from alleged Barcelona plot arrive for arraignment in Spanish court.
Spain's interior minister said the suspects in a Barcelona terror plot were clearly ready to strike, but police have not yet found explosives "in sufficient quantity" to be used for the assault.
The Spanish judge overseeing the arraignment of 10 terrorism suspects said Wednesday that they had "planned to carry out a series of suicide attacks" last weekend on public transportation in Barcelona.
Spanish police arrested 14 people suspected of preparing an Islamic terrorist attack in or near Barcelona, Spain's Interior Minister said Saturday.
At the halfway point of the Spanish league, the country's two leading clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, again find themselves caught in the crossfire of an age-old debate: Do you play entertaining soccer, or winning soccer? Rarely do teams do both.
Shops operated with gas-powered lamps, traffic lights remained blank and courthouses turned to battery power Tuesday as Spain's most cosmopolitan city faced Day Two of a major power outage
When a star player at the peak of his powers moves to one of the world's biggest clubs, it is generally assumed that the buying club got the better half of the deal. Ambition triumphs over loyalty. But with Thierry Henry's transfer from Arsenal to Barcelona, it looks like the English club has good reason to be smiling.
A Spanish court convicted three Pakistani-born men of collaborating with a terrorist group and sentenced each to five years in prison, according to a copy of the sentence viewed by CNN on Tuesday.
World Soccer's Keir Radnedge recently interviewed Barcelona wonder-teen Lionel Messi about his tremendous potential, European stardom and comparisons to his idol, Diego Maradona.
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BARCELONA, Spain -- It took an epic journey, nearly 5,500 miles from Las Vegas to New York City to Barcelona, to realize exactly what the New York Yankees mean to the United States.
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Late last season, Samuel Eto'o was asked the secret of Barcelona's success.
Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man near Barcelona Wednesday on suspicion of Islamic terrorist activities, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.
The tech boom now underway is profoundly different from any that has come before. It is broader and probably longer-lasting in its impact on tech companies, and more transformative macroeconomically. There are two reasons. First, everybody wants technology. And second, technology has become radically easier to create.
A gas explosion in a building in Barcelona injured several people on Monday, news reports say.
Spanish Civil Guards have arrested four Canadians and seized one ton of cocaine they allegedly had aboard a private yacht near Barcelona, according to officials.
A small bomb has exploded in Barcelona at an Italian government cultural institute, injuring a Spanish police officer and killing a police dog, an Italian Embassy spokeswoman in Madrid told CNN.
A Spanish court has sentenced a Muslim cleric to 15 months in jail for inciting violence through a book he wrote advising men on how to beat women without leaving any marks or evidence, the president of a women's group told CNN.
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I wish I'd read May's "How to Protect Yourself on the Road" before my recent trip to Barcelona. In an underground parking lot there one morning, a man grabbed my purse. As I held tight, he dragged ...
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