Three people were gored and a further two people suffered head trauma during the first day of Spain's best-known bull-running festival in the northern town of Pamplona on Sunday, the Red Cross said.

Dozens of demonstrators lay half-naked on the streets of Pamplona on the eve of the San Fermin festival on Thursday.

The race defied the attempts of the Spanish far-right party Vox to cull the Pride celebrations this year.

Men and women run on stilettos and dressed in a flamboyant outfit to mark the gay pride in Madrid

The event is held to celebrate Saint Peter and the region's plentiful wine output.

The French national weather service took the unprecedented step of issuing red alerts in four of its departments due to high temperatures.

The arrival of summer marks the beginning of Solstice celebrations on the island of Menorca. In Ciutadella, a fiesta to honour the town's patron, Sant Joan, takes place between June 23 and 24.

The wines are aged for 18 months on the sea bed where under the increased atmospheric pressure they turn soft and silky.

Brussels swept by the Greens wave, Spain joins fighter jet project and Starche gives up his European Parliament seat. All this and more in the Brief from Brussels.

Carles Puigdemont, former President of Catalonia, will have to travel to Madrid today if he’s to validate his status as a member of the new European Parliament.

Conservatives have regained control of the Spanish capital while the left hangs on in Barcelona.

Spain's Supreme Court blocked jailed Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras from leaving prison to collect credentials to join the EU parliament.