Madrid — Chanting “they don’t represent us,” tens of thousands in Madrid railed early Sunday against Spain’s government and austerity cuts — venting their anger on the first anniversary of the so-called May 15 protest movement. Many ignored a government deadline to disperse by Saturday night from the central Puerta del Sol plaza, prompting police to clear the square [...]

Pastor Maldonado grabbed his first Formula One victory as the Venezuelan impressively held off Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso to win the Spanish Grand Prix. In only his second Formula One season, Maldonado secured Williams’s first win since 2004 thanks to some timely pit stops after Alonso had raced away from the Venezeulan at the start. Maldonado’s second pit stop proved key to his victory [...]

A recent Oral Roberts University graduate was the only one of five people en route to a Christian youth conference to survive a plane crash in southeastern Kansas, officials said Saturday. The twin-engine Cessna 401 went down Friday afternoon about nine miles west of Chanute, the Kansas Highway Patrol said on their website. The small aircraft landed in a field and skidded about 200 feet before hitting [...]

The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council will hold a meeting Monday in Saudi Arabia to discuss transforming their six nations into a union, similar to the European Union. The idea of the GCC nations to integrate into one entity — and replace what exists now as simply a cooperative — was first floated by Saudi Arabia in December. Monday’s meeting in Riyadh will lay out the timetable [...]

Kabul, Afghanistan — A key figure in Afghanistan’s efforts to bring the Taliban to peace negotiations was assassinated Sunday in Kabul, authorities said. Gunmen killed Moulavi Arsala Rahmani while he was on his way to work Sunday morning, the Afghan interior ministry said. Rahmani was a senator and Cabinet minister during the Taliban government. In recent years, he was a senior member of [...]

Boston University mourned three study-abroad students killed in New Zealand while visiting locations where “The Lord of the Rings” movies were filmed. A van in which the students were traveling swerved off a road and rolled over about 7:30 a.m. Saturday near the resort town of Taupo in the center of North Island, the school said. The university, quoting a U.S. vice consul in Auckland, identified [...]