Spain

The Prime Minister provides his daily briefing: Northwest Territories limits non-essential travel while work continues to bring Canadians home from Peru, Spain, Morocco and elsewhere

Allen Abel in Washington: As the storm clouds close in on the White House, the U.S. president lashes out—at Canada, Mexico, Congress and immigrants

Scott Gilmore in Barcelona: Spain has shown a near criminal lack of political dexterity in handling its Alberta-like separatists

Opinion: Crackdowns, like Spain’s assault on Catalan referendum voters, often produce exactly the change governments don’t want

The spectacle of police smashing ballot boxes and firing on protesters has done deep damage to Spain’s credibility

With unemployment still sky-high, this is the largest emigration since millions of people fled Franco’s dictatorship

A panoply of millinery excess, dress uniforms and velvet robes

The brave king who stood up to authoritarian rightwingers

The eurozone crisis: an illustrated guide to the biggest threat to the Canadian economy

After being banned from public television in 2006, bullfighting returns to Spanish TV primetime

Synchronized swimming is one of the rare smiling sports at these the London 2012 Summer Games, which are usually more about pant, sweat, grimace and grunt. Smile when you win, smile when you lose; smile at the judges and pray they didn’t decide the results two weeks ago over dinner.

Those who get sick while on vacation may now be granted additional time off in lieu