Madrid / AFP Barack Obama met Spain’s King Felipe in Madrid on Sunday, during a symbolic but abbreviated first presidential trip to Spain in the wake of America’s latest spasm of violence. Obama is squeezing in a visit to a key NATO and EU partner before dashing home to deal with the aftermath of a wrenching shooting in Dallas. ...

  Berlin / AFP More than 7,500 classical musicians performed in a German football arena at the weekend to set the world record for the biggest-ever orchestra. Amateur groups and full orchestras from Germany as well as Austria and the Netherlands took part in the mega-show Saturday evening in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena, national news agency DPA reported. With 7,548 musicians involved, ...

  ISTANBUL, TURKEY / AFP Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed six Turkish soldiers and a village guardsman in two separate attacks on Sunday, the army said. Five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on their military vehicle in Hakkari province on the road between the towns of Beyyurdu and Aktutun close to the border with northern ...