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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...

Wild video shows a 1,100-pound bull leaping over a safety barrier at a bullfighting arena in Spain – almost goring terrified women in the front row. The bovine, Malacara, charged towards the matador ...