Madrid  - Spain's Santander bank said Monday it had made a deal to buy 100 per cent of the British bank Alliance and Leicester for 1.57 billion euros (2.5 billion dollars).

Pamplona, Spain - At least half a dozen people were taken to hospital Monday after the last of this year's eight-day bull runs in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, radio reports said.

The victims were injured while falling and tripping over. There were no reports of injuries from bull horns. Several of the injuries were fairly serious.

In the Saint Fermin bull runs, half a dozen fighting bulls are let loose on the winding streets of the old city centre.

Hundreds of men known as mozos run alongside the bulls, armed with nothing but folded newspapers. The animals make a 825-metre dash for the bullring, where they are killed in an evening bullfight.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - A boat carrying would-be immigrants Friday crossed over from Africa to the Canary Island of La Gomera with 55 passengers and four bodies on board, Spanish officials said. Three of the passengers were reported in poor health.

The arrival followed the deaths of 15 Africans from thirst, hunger and sunburn during another crossing to the Spanish mainland.

Thirty-three survivors were rescued from that boat late Wednesday. The survivors said they had thrown overboard the bodies of 14 people, including nine young children. A 15th victim died while being taken to hospital.

Almeria, Spain - Fourteen African would-be immigrants, including nine children, died on board a boat left adrift by engine failure while trying to reach Spain, police said Thursday.

Pamplona, Spain - Eighty-five years after Ernest Hemingway first became enthralled by the traditional bull runs in Pamplona, the novelist's grandson John on Tuesday visited the northern Spanish cit

Pamplona, Spain  - Eighty-five years after Ernest Hemingway first became enthralled by the traditional bull runs in Pamplona, the novelist's grandson John on Tuesday visited the northern Spanish ci