Tensions over bullfighting are growing in Spain, where the death of a matador in the ring broadcast live on television has added fuel to a national debate over the centuries-old but controversial ...

Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday cancelled a bullfighting ban in Catalonia in what is likely to exacerbate tensions between Madrid and the separatist region, and drew an outcry from animal ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Several thousand people rallied in Madrid on Saturday to demand a ban on bullfighting, adding their voices to a growing animal rights movement that has prompted some local ...

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(CNN) -- For its advocates, bullfighting is an indelible part of Spanish culture, a ritual that forms part of the nation's cultural patrimony, immortalized in countless works of art. Both professional ...

Spain's leading matador "stunned the bullfighting world" last week by "symbolically cutting off his ponytail in the ring", said The Times. The gesture by Morante de la Puebla in Madrid's Las Ventas, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A matador dodges a charging bull in the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. Animal rights activists are capitalizing on diminishing ...

MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Alarcón plays out the moment when he will enter Madrid's Las Ventas bullring for his final challenge as a “novillero,” or apprentice bullfighter. The 24-year-old has been training ...

Spain's most revered bullfighter ended up in the hospital after his return to the ring took a gruesome turn. José Antonio Morante de la Puebla, 45, was gravely injured Sunday in Seville when a bull ...

Lawmakers in Catalonia outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, becoming Spain's first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of ...