European champion Spain won 3-0 at Estonia to extend its unbeaten streak to 25 games, and England outplayed Kazakhstan 5-1 in another World Cup qualifying game Saturday after being booed off the field at halftime by its fans.

Spain’s government insisted Friday that a 30 billion euros ($41 billion) fund it will use to buy assets from banks starved for liquidity will have zero cost for taxpayers.

The first official report into the crash of a SpanAir passenger jet said Thursday that investigators are still focusing on a problem with the plane’s wing flaps and the failure of a cockpit alarm to sound, but that no conclusions have been reached as to why the plane went down.

European champion Spain remained No. 1 in FIFA’s soccer rankings Wednesday, followed by Italy and Germany. The United States is No. 24.

The Basque regional government’s president will be tried for meeting members of Batasuna, a party banned for its links to the armed separatist group ETA, a Spanish court said Monday.

Basque regional police say a bomb has exploded outside a court house in Tolosa in Spain’s northern Basque country, causing considerable damage but no injuries.

German-owned automaker SEAT said Friday it must temporarily lay off 1,250 employees, or 11 percent of its work force, at factories in northeastern Spain because of falling sales.

Operation Puerto, cycling’s biggest doping investigation, was closed without a single conviction.

A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain’s Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan’s spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.

A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain’s Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan’s spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.