The international break in soccer will offer the last chance to see Lionel Messi play for Argentina.

Raphinha has scored a hat trick to help Barcelona earn yet another big win by routing Racing Santander 7-2 for its sixth victory in six Spanish League matches.

Real Madrid stars Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior have found themselves in the middle of a supercharged debate in Spain about migration and the country’s relations with Morocco.

Lionel Messi might have one last dance with Argentina after all.

The U.S. women will play for another FIBA World Cup championship.

Ben Shelton’s five-set thriller to beat reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz in the U.S. Open quarterfinals ended at 3:33 a.m. Wednesday.

Six goals for Paris Saint-Germain, five for Barcelona and classically just one for Arsenal as the serious Champions League contenders started with wins Wednesday.

Ousmane Dembélé, Harry Kane, and Kylian Mbappé are contenders for the men’s Ballon d’Or.

Host Germany has avoided embarrassment at the women’s FIBA World Cup with a comfortable 83-58 win over Mali.

Next up for Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open is.

Mali pulled off the first stunner of the Women’s Basketball World Cup by shocking Spain 82-73.

A record-breaking spending spree by English soccer clubs has reached its climax with Manchester City signing midfielder Enzo Fernandez from Chelsea for 125 million pounds ($169 million).

Alex Palou won his record-tying fourth consecutive IndyCar season championship with a 10th-place finish Sunday night in the resumption of a rain-delayed race at the Milwaukee Mile.

Carlos Alcaraz is ready for competition after missing more than four months with an injured right wrist.

Barcelona’s World Cup winners with Spain have not been honored by the club at its first home game of the season because of an incident involving the “estelada” flag, Catalonia’s pro-independence symbol.

FIFA on Friday handed bans to three Argentina players, led by a 10-match suspension for midfielder Leandro Paredes, for striking Spain opponents moments after the World Cup final.

Carlos Alcaraz is ready to return from injury to defend his U.S. Open title.

José Mourinho is confident Real Madrid will be fine without Rodri despite admitting the club made “a very good offer” to try to sign the Spain captain.

Barcelona has made official the signing of Spain captain Rodri with the midfielder celebrating his arrival to a club that understands “the values” of soccer and saying it was a “tough decision” to leave Manchester City.

Spain’s World Cup-winning captain Rodri is set to arrive in Barcelona to seal his transfer from Manchester City to the Catalan club.

Spain’s World Cup-winning captain Rodri appears to be heading back home after Manchester City and Barcelona reached an agreement over the midfielder’s move.

Lionel Messi has shared a tribute to his late father, Jorge, on social media, opening up about how difficult it was to lead Argentina to the World Cup final and expressing uncertainty about whether he will continue playing soccer.

Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness.

A misdemeanor gun charge against All-Star Cleveland Cavaliers guard James Harden in Texas has been dismissed after he completed an alternative resolution program allowing him to avoid a criminal record.

The girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory.

The girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory.

Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar is returning to the Spanish Vuelta after a seven-year absence to pursue a Grand Tours hat trick of titles.

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

France has allowed 84,000 evacuees to return home after a massive wildfire, signaling progress in battling the flames.

FIFA has lodged disciplinary charges against two Argentina players for striking Spain opponents moments after the World Cup final.

Fire crews in southwest France are battling a massive blaze four times the size of Paris, while two firefighters were killed fighting a wind-driven blaze on the Greek island of Crete.

A raging wildfire in southwest France has forced the evacuation of 55,000 more people overnight.

Massive forest fires are raging out of control in southwestern France and central Spain, forcing authorities to evacuate around 200,000 people.

Industry data and analytics company Luminate has found that the 2026 World Cup halftime performers experienced considerable jumps in the streams of the songs they performed live at the final on Sunday.

Lionel Messi has arrived back in Argentina for some rest after the World Cup final against Spain.

It’s the women’s turn now.

The World Cup hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico wasn't perfect, but has still been widely hailed as a success.

FIFA has opened an investigation after Spain’s celebrations on beating Argentina in the World Cup final took an ugly turn when players briefly clashed on the field.

Spain’s World Cup-winning soccer team has returned home to an estimated crowd of almost 2 million.

Spain substitute Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute to give his team a 1-0 win over defending champion Argentina in the World Cup final.

President Donald Trump has presented the World Cup trophy to Spain, the winner of Sunday’s final against Argentina.

Kylian Mbappé kept the Golden Boot award and Spain wouldn’t let Lionel Messi get anything else.

To get in the spirit for the 2026 World Cup final between Argentina and Spain, The Associated Press has made a themed playlist.

The World Cup final is set for Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, featuring a clash between Argentina and Spain.

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries.

Firefighters in Spain are battling one of the country's deadliest wildfires, which has killed at least 12 people.

Unai Simón's impressive World Cup scoreless streak has ended.

A passenger on board a flight from Greece to Germany was partially sucked out of a window when it broke soon after takeoff.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has demanded allies present clear plans to meet spending targets at the annual summit in Ankara.

Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and Greece.

The World Cup knockout stage is set, and some teams might feel like they've drawn the short straw.

Cape Verde completed an improbable run through the group stage with a third straight World Cup draw to become the smallest country to earn a spot in the knockout round following a 0-0 result against Saudi Arabia.

Spain has defeated Uruguay 1-0 after another goalkeeping mistake by Fernando Muslera to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup and eliminate the South American powerhouse.

France recorded its hottest day ever as an early heat wave gripped Europe.

Cape Verde’s magical start to its first World Cup isn’t over.

Egypt is on the brink of history in the World Cup, heavily favored against New Zealand on Sunday.

Welcome to the World Cup, Lamine Yamal.

France is in the grips of a severe heat wave, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.

The mother of Cape Verde star goalkeeper Vozinha has been granted a visa to enter the United States in time for her 40-year-old son’s next World Cup match.

Vozinha gasped and laughed in shock when shown the number of new Instagram followers he had gained after helping tiny Cape Verde hold off powerhouse Spain in his team’s World Cup debut.

The teams that are ranked 61st, 67th and 85th in FIFA’s world rankings all were heavy underdogs in their first matches at the World Cup.

Tiny Cape Verde pulled off a stunning result in its World Cup debut by shutting out heavily favored Spain.

Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona.

Pope Leo XIV has been caught in two of Spain's major culture debates during his visit to Barcelona.

Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday when he visits a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrates Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica.

The Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has met with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis.

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Europe to acknowledge Christianity’s contributions to its cultural identity.

Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that he's competing with another VIP in Madrid this weekend.

Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain will bring him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice.

Pope Leo XIV is urging Spaniards to stop “fanning the flames of polarization” as he arrived in Spain.

Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews.

Aryna Sabalenka’s diamonds sparkled in the sunshine when she won her first-round match at the heat-soaked French Open.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

Marta Kostyuk’s first-round win at the French Open becomes one of her toughest matches after she finds out beforehand that a missile almost hit her parents’ home in Ukraine.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.

A Spanish court has acquitted pop star Shakira in a tax fraud case and ordered the government to return over 55 million euros in wrongly imposed fines.

Spain is boycotting this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, after repeatedly expressing disapproval over Israel’s participation.

Oceanwide Expeditions says it expects to know by the end of the week if the MV Hondius cruise ship will keep to its schedule after a hantavirus outbreak.

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

Real Madrid has fined Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni $588,000 each for their altercation during practice.

Luka Doncic says he was given platelet-rich plasma injections in Spain in an effort to speed up his eight-week timeline for return from the hamstring injury that has had him sidelined since April 2.

Kylian Mbappé insists he remains fully committed to his recovery from a left hamstring injury.

Activists attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza say Israeli forces have intercepted their flotilla near the southern Greek island of Crete.

Real Madrid says star forward Kylian Mbappé has injured his left hamstring, putting in doubt his participation in the Spanish league clasico in two weeks.

First came the racist abuse against Vinícius Júnior.

Barcelona says forward Lamine Yamal will miss the rest of the club season but should be healed from a leg injury in time to play for Spain at the World Cup.

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right.

Sergio Garcia has apologized for his tantrum during the final round of the Masters.

Spain's government has finalized a migrant amnesty measure that paves the way for potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status.

Harry Kane delivered for Bayern Munich on his return from injury, scoring a goal and helping set up another in the team’s 2-1 win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

Finance ministers from five European Union member states are urging the bloc to introduce a windfall tax on energy companies as surging oil and gas prices raise inflation fears.

Barcelona has routed Real Madrid 6-0 to reach its eighth straight semifinal in the Women’s Champions League.

Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war after earlier saying the U.S. couldn't use jointly operated military bases there for operations related to the conflict.

Actor Antonio Banderas has joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain.

Florian Wirtz scored two and made two as Germany twice came from behind to beat Switzerland 4-3 in a thrilling friendly.

A young Spanish woman died in Barcelona after winning a long court fight for her euthanasia right.

Carlos Alcaraz has been eliminated in the third round of the Miami Open, losing to Sebastian Korda in three sets.

UEFA said Sunday that the game between Argentina and Spain known as Finalissima that was supposed to be held in Qatar has been canceled after the widening Middle East war.