Traffic lights went dark, mobile phone coverage cut out and the transport industry ground to a halt in tourist cities such as ...

Tourists were left "fighting" to escape the widespread power outage in Spain after hundreds of flights were cancelled or ...

Power has mostly been restored to cities across Spain and Portugal after a major outage caused chaos yesterday. King Felipe ...

The massive power outages saw widespread disruption, and a state of emergency remains in place in Spain. There are confusing ...

Outages on such a scale are extremely rare in Europe. The cause was unclear, with Portugal suggesting the issue originated in ...

The last time a blackout of this scale happened in Europe was in 2006 when some 15 million households were affected. That outage was caused by a frequency drop that originated in Germany and split the ...

Thousands of Irish tourists have breathed a sigh of relief following the recovery of more than 99% of power following an ...

Red Electrica, Spain's power operator, says that as of 06:00 local time (05:00 BST), 99.16% of power has been restored to ...

Spain’s electricity grid operator Red Electrica said it was able to supply virtually all of the country’s electricity demand ...

Power began returning to households in Spain and neighbouring Portugal, hours after cities across the Iberian Peninsula were ...