Striking union workers clashed with police at Madrid’s Barajas Airport yesterday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain’s flagship airline Iberia.

Traffic at Irish airports has landed with a bump as new figures show they suffered the biggest decline in passenger numbers of any EU member state in 2010.

THE outlawed political wing of armed Basque separatists ETA announced yesterday its rebirth as a new party that rejects violence and intends to contest elections.

Spain is to sell a 30% stake in its national lottery and partially privatise airports in Madrid and Barcelona to ease market worries about public finances.