Greenpeace protests atop Barcelona landmark

Fire erupted Tuesday in a suspected arson attack on Barcelona's historic Sagrada Familia church, forcing 1,500 tourists to evacuate, officials said.Firefighters extinguished the fire in the sacristry before it could consume the stonework of Antoni Gaudi's world-renowned masterpiece, but some furnishings were damaged, they said.Ambulances ferried away four men working on the church who had inhaled smoke belching out from the blaze in the Barcelona landmark which was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI on November 7 last year.

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Four Greenpeace activists on Monday scaled a Mexican off-shore oil rig to protest against global reliance on fossil fuels ahead of a UN conference on climate change, the group said.Pictures posted on the environmentalist group's website showed a banner reading "Go Beyond Oil" hanging from the "Centenario" oil rig, and the group said its activists had climbed 39 meters (yards) above the water to hang it.

An art nouveau mansion designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi was officially re-inaugurated Wednesday in Barcelona after a seven-year renovation costing nine million euros.Palau Guell was built between 1886 and 1890 for textile mogul Eusebi Guell, Guadi's life-long patron who lived in the mansion with his family for 20 years.It was Gaudi's first major undertaking in the northeastern Spanish city and it features early versions of the architect's iconic style such as the use of elaborate ironwork and chimneys covered with broken ceramic tiles.

In a bid to prevent deep sea oil drilling in Arctic waters, 11 Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig Friday as it was leaving Turkey for Greenland's Baffin Bay, the enviromental group said.The international team of Greenpeace volunteers crawled to the top of the Leiv Eiriksson drilling derrick in the Sea of Marmara off Tekirdag province and unfurled a banner reading "Stop Arctic destruction," the organisation said.

A fire broke out at the Sagrada Familia church in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday, and authorities say arson was the cause.