MADRID - Bullfights returned live to Spanish state TV with a glittering and music-filled display on Wednesday evening, six years after the fights were banned from the widely watched public channel.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s state TV will start airing live bullfights again after the new conservative government lifted a six-year ban on the tradition that has been hard hit by declining popularity and ...

PAMPLONA, Spain - Hordes of humans will sprint ahead of thundering beasts this week at Pamplona's famed running of the bulls, but Spain's most storied fiesta is being overshadowed by a crisis in the ...

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s state TV says it will again air live bullfights after a six-year halt, giving a boost to a centuries-old tradition hit by falling popularity and the economic crisis. RTVE said ...

Matadors drove the killing sword into bulls for the last time Sunday in Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia in an emotive farewell fight before a polemical regional ban on the country's ...

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- State-run Spanish television has quietly yanked live coverage of bullfighting from its programming, ending a decades-old tradition of showcasing the national pastime out of ...

Ernest Hemingway must be spinning in his grave right now. Two Spanish towns south of Madrid have had to cut back or cancel their annual bullfights — and the accompanying running of the bulls through ...

Spanish bulls are under threat — not from bullfighters, but from illness. Jerome Socolovsky reports from Spain where the spread of a livestock epidemic called "blue tongue" has forced the cancellation ...

(Reuters) - The Catalonia region of Spain voted to ban bullfighting on Wednesday. Following the prohibition's success in parliament, bullfighting will end in the area from 2012, closing Barcelona's ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's public broadcaster has said it will show its first bullfight in six years next month, a controversial decision at a time when bullfighting faces growing public opposition.