All of this has already made Spain favourites ... They’ve already won six games from six, which no previous European champion has ever done. Brazil 2002 are in fact the only team in history ...

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that a problem in the European grid that he described as a "strong oscillation" was behind the outage, but that the cause was still being determined.

Countries previously untouched--Spain and Germany--have detected ... The French daily Le Monde called the mad cow resurgence "a European crisis," and in an editorial said the problem calls for ...