Many families are now stocking up on battery-operated appliances and food items to avoid being caught in a similar situation ...

Spain, Portugal and France have been hit by a massive power outage, affecting transport, telephone lines and traffic lights ...

The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Centre have issued a statement saying there was no sign the outage was due to a ...

Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal, as officials continue to investigate what caused the outage.

The subways were running in Madrid and Lisbon ... an 87-year-old retiree, walking with difficulty near a Madrid’s still crowded Atocha train station. He had spent the day before trapped in ...

Officials in Spain and Portugal are racing to restore electricity after a huge power outage that grounded flights, paralyzed ...

Traffic was gridlocked, trains stopped working, people were stuck in lifts and nuclear power stations were automatically shut ...

Pedro Sanchez has asked the public to refrain from speculation and said no theory about the cause of the outage had been ...

Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds floundering without internet and ...

Oliver Ortiz, a 45-year-old butcher ... Passengers have been stranded in the metro in Lisbon, waiting for the grid to restore power. Some trains are still stuck in the tunnels between stations ...

Azam Ahmed from Lisbon; and Catherine Porter from Paris. A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday afternoon, abruptly shutting down daily activities, halting trains and subways ...

The lights went out in cities, villages, airports and train stations ... Alanna Gladstone, a 40-year-old film editor, had landed in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, on a flight from New York hours ...