Spain darkens as solar eclipses races south from Arctic⁣ ⁣ Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, plunging it into eerie darkness in one of nature's greatest spectacles.⁣ The spectral glow of the Sun's outer corona, shimmering out of the edges of the shadowy Moon, drew gasps and cheers from huge crowds, just 90 minutes after it first appeared in the remote Arctic region of northern Russia.⁣ ⁣ The eclipse -- a first in mainland Europe since 2006 -- cast its shadow through parts of Greenland, racing south to smother Keflavik, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, before arcing across the Atlantic Ocean towards northern Spain.⁣ Reykjavik had not seen a total solar eclipse since 1433.⁣ In Spain, the lunar shadow moved diagonally in a narrow path from the northern coast to the Balearic Islands, where tourists and locals gathered to watch on the beach, many dressed in swimmin...