They've been a culture without a country for so long, it's little surprise that pockets of Basque life can be found throughout the West. They began arriving in the 1800s from Basque country, which ...

The cuisine of the Basque country -- in the western Pyrenees straddling northern Spain and southeastern France -- just could be the most glorious food you've never heard of. At least, not in detail ...

BILBAO, Spain — When José Moreno, a Basque soldier, was captured in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, he was sentenced to death by one of the commanders in the army of Gen. Francisco Franco, the ...

But what Idaho Basques lack in raw numbers, they more than make up in concentration, visibility and distinctiveness. Basques began arriving here more than a century ago, flourishing as they integrated ...

Sheep, you may be surprised to learn, aren’t as dumb as they look. Some people might even describe them as calculating, crafty animals with fierce independent streaks. Given the slightest opening, for ...

BILBAO, Spain — The violent separatist group ETA was the clear loser in elections Sunday for a semiautonomous government in Spain’s Basque Country, but there was no outright winner of the bloodied ...

Yet the 29-year-old actually holds the world’s stone-lifting record of 326 kilos, or 717 pounds, and in three days he’ll attempt a new mark of 327 before an entirely different audience: knowledgeable ...

Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...