For millions of people across Spain and Portugal, power was lost in an instant yesterday. Communications came to a halt, water was not running in places, metro systems ground to a standstill, and travellers were strained in airport departure lounges.

Electricity was back in most of the two countries almost 18 hours after a blackout that shut down much of daily life. The cause of the outage remained unclear.

A massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday, causing widespread chaos and disruption. The outage left millions of people without electricity, while internet and phone networks were also down. Trains were cancelled and evacuated in some regions, traffic lights stopped working amid mounting delays at airports.

Jacob Fearnley was forced off court after play was suspended at the Madrid Open due to the widespread power outage affecting Spain and Portugal.

Britain’s Jacob Fearnley was forced off court as play was suspended at the Madrid Open due to a power outage. The third-round tie between Fearnley and Grigor Dimitrov had reached a critical stage, Fearnley breaking the 15th seed’s serve to stay in the match,

Roth IRA money Trump's poll numbers are so abysmal he's crying "fraud" Coast Guard to remove 100+ buoys from Maine waters Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ isn’t just scaring audiences. It’s scaring Hollywood.