A woman has died in Spain of the human version of mad cow disease, following the death of her son in February of the same disease, Spain's Ministry of Health says.

This marks the first time that two members of the same family have died of the disease, health researchers say.

A Delta Air Lines flight headed from New York to Trinidad narrowly avoided a mid-air, head-on collision with a Russian-registered passenger jet near near Puerto Rico, a U.S. official said Friday.

Peter Knudson of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told AFP news that a Delta Boeing B737-800 and a Transaero Boeing B747-400, registered in Russia, were travelling toward one another on Thursday night at the exact same altitude of 10,058 meters (33,000 feet).

One person died and dozens of spectators were injured during Sunday's opening ceremony and Monday's running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Although six bulls were turned loose to rampage down Pamplona's narrow streets, most spectators were injured due to falls.

The death of an Irish spectator was attributed to falling from where he was sitting on a wall.

Two Spanish children have been sent to a mental health institution by their parents to get treatment for addiction to their mobile phones. The children had allegedly ceased to undertake normal activities without first having their phones.

The children, aged 12 and 13, were admitted to Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, in northeastern Spain near Barcelona, three months ago. Their concerned parents brought them in after they spend an average of six hours a day on their phones, talking, texting or playing games.

Hundreds of bike riders shed their clothing and rode through the capital of Spain Saturday protesting the overuse of automobiles, and celebrating the simplicity of bicycles and the human body.

According to the World Naked Bike Ride Website, the annual ride is held in cities all over the world "to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency."