A judge at the Spanish National Court took statements Friday from three men who may have been plotting terrorist attacks on British and U.S. targets, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said.
In what the interior minister calls one of Spain's largest operations against al Qaeda, security services said Thursday they arrested three suspected terrorists who might have been plotting attacks on U.S. or British targets.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the terror arrests that took place in Spain and how close the men were to an attack.
Rights groups have slammed a lunch hosted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for including monarchs criticized for their countries' human rights records.
Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 86th birthday Saturday privately at Windsor Castle, a palace spokesman said.
Some 518 days after she first set off alone in her sailboat, 16-year-old Laura Dekker glided into a Caribbean port on Saturday to complete her historic, and controversial, voyage around the globe.
Call Kimberly Brown a smartphone junkie if you want.
A fuel tank exploded on a pier in Gibraltar injuring 12 passengers on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked nearby, according to the cruise line.
If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Studded with antiquities, this land of ancient Olympia, Corinth and Sparta offers plenty of fun in the eternal Greek sun, with pleasant fishing villages, sandy beaches, bathtub-warm water, and none of the tourist crowds that plague the much-scrambled-after Greek Isles.
Smart budget travel isn't just about saving money -- it's about maximizing your experience. Let me stoke your travel dreams by sharing some of my favorite European experiences from 30 years of crisscrossing the Continent.
John Grogan, author of the heart-tugging dog tale Marley & Me, revisits the suburban Detroit of his youth in The Longest Trip Home
The stock market can be a wild and woolly place. But at least you know you can count on dividend stocks, bonds and other income-paying investments to be a Rock of Gibraltar, right?
John Darwin's wife said her husband faked his own death to avoid mounting debts and holed up in the family home for years, hiding from his own sons, according to UK media reports.
The British man who reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned changed his identity during his disappearance and tried to buy a catamaran to go "sailing around the world," a boat dealer said Friday.
I was in Athens, on a rooftop restaurant under a floodlit Acropolis, marveling at how a Greek salad never gets boring. It was the last day of a trip I enjoyed with my wife Anne. I was reviewing, as I always do after completing an itinerary, how effectively our time was spent. We had kept our focus more on seeing historic sights on the mainland rather than luxuriating on Aegean Islands. Given that focus, here are the top 10 stops -- in itinerary order -- that make what I consider the best two weeks Greece has to offer:
A sunken galleon, modern-day treasure hunters, a fortune in silver coins and the Spanish navy.
Spain has again seized an American treasure-hunting ship over a dispute with its owners over who has rights to millions of dollars worth of booty recovered from the sea, officials said.
On April 10, a Gulfstream G-V took off from the British territory of Gibraltar en route to Tampa with a load of Colonial-era silver and gold coins salvaged from a centuries-old shipwreck.
When in southern Spain, I can't resist popping into the British colony of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is hardly sign-posted in Spain, as if Spain wishes the British colony didn't exist. (Drivers follow highway signs to La Linea, the last Spanish town.) But when you see that famous "Rock of Prudential" standing boldly above the sea, you know it's here to stay.
A British teenager on Wednesday entered the record books after reaching Antigua to become the youngest person ever to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Since gracing our cover in March 2005, sunken-treasure recovery firm Odyssey Marine Exploration has been working toward a huge payday: the exploration of the HMS Sussex, sunk off Gibraltar in 1694 ...
While helicopter-dropped food packages dominate the headlines, another army of workers are scrambling behind the scenes to make the water filtration systems, logistics arrangements and other specialized equipment needed for the disaster response effort.
The captain of a Royal Navy warship has been relieved of his command and ordered off his ship in a bullying inquiry, British media reports say.
Intelligence shows al Qaeda has plans to blow up shipping in a bid to disrupt world trade, Britain's top Naval officer has said in an interview.
Spain has accused the British government of a lack of "self-control" for joining in celebrations Wednesday of the anniversary of Gibraltar's seizure.
Thousands of Gibraltarians celebrated 300 years of British rule by forming a human chain around "the Rock" while Spain fumed over the presence of a British minister.
Online bookmakers are being targeted by hackers who threaten to shut down sites that refuse to pay them money.
There's something of the night about this industry," a Merrill Lynch investment banker has warned. One evening in November in the lobby of London's Landmark hotel, where the elusive operator of the...
Seth M. Glickenhaus, 79, has seen a lot of up and down markets. After all, he started in 1934, at Salomon Brothers. His reputation as an adroit preserver of capital has brought Glickenhaus & Co. $2...
When it comes to describing the performance of the Service 500 companies last year, the song kind of says it: Been down so long, it looks like up to me. After two years of declining profits, the mo...
WEARY bank regulators and emissaries of Ronald O. Perelman deliberated late into the night last December 27 in the offices of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. Finally, in a room bereft of Chri...
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Watch for a flurry of S&L takeovers before the tax law changes at year-end. If quiet negotiations with federal S&L regulators pan out, Ford Motor will land at least $2 billion in tax deductions on ...
Although extra-high CD yields are often offered by weaker banks and thrifts that are desperate for cash, particularly in Texas, many experts contend that as long as a bank's accounts are federally ...
Fixed-rate mortgages have begun dipping below 9% for the first time in eight years. Economists say this trend will continue into the slow winter months of the new year as more financial institution...
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