Famed painter and sculptor Antoni Tàpies dies aged 88
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, a Catalan painter and sculptor who helped co-found the first post-war movement in Spain known as the "Dau al set," and who was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, has died at More...
Barcelona police chief subpoenaed for protest eviction
The Barcelona police chief, Joan Carles Molinero, has been subpoenaed as a defendant over the forceful eviction of protesters from Plaza de Catalunya on May 27. Court testimony from another police official established More...
Outbreak of rare sexually transmitted disease raises alarm in Barcelona
An outbreak of a rare sexually transmitted disease, barely recorded since the 1980s, has raised the alarm at health centers in Barcelona. More...
Barcelona outbreak of rare venereal disease raises unprotected sex alarm
An outbreak of a rare sexually transmitted disease, barely recorded since the 1980s, has raised the alarm at health centers in Barcelona. More...
Barcelona outbreak of rare venereal disease raises unprotected sex alarm
An outbreak of a rare sexually transmitted disease, barely recorded since the 1980s, has raised the alarm at health centers in Barcelona. More...
Fined for being broke: the homeless asked to cough up for sleeping rough
Carlos, John and Miquel belong to a group of homeless people who live in the plaza of Folch i Torres in the Raval neighborhood of downtown Barcelona. They and half a dozen others form a ring around a few cartons More...
HISTORY SETS SAIL FROM BARCELONA
In April 2011, a punch to the air marked a point in history, as British sailor Dee Caffari crossed the finish line of the Barcelona World Race in sixth place, having become the only woman to have sailed the world More...
POLICE WARN OF BOGUS SOFTWARE
Officers from the technological crime group of the National Police are warning computer users to be aware of a malicious piece of software that claims to have been installed by the police which locks your computer More...
Property Sales Figures Looking Up
According to the latest figures released by the Spanish statistical institution, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), house sales figures in November last year continued to show a steady increase in the More...
Catalan police protest cutbacks
Around 50 members of the Catalan police staged a sit-in at Barcelona's largest police station Friday to protest the regional government's planned budget cuts. More...
Judge to quiz police chiefs over Barcelona 15-M charge
A Barcelona judge has ordered the principal political and police overseers of the regional Mossos d'Esquadra and the city's security force to appear in court over the forced removal of 15-M movement protestors from More...
Ryanair claims Spanair receives illegal funding
Low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair sought to justify the funding it has received from the Catalan government to fly out of the airports of Reus and Girona, but slammed subsidies afforded to its Barcelona-based rival More...
Ryanair claims Spanair receives illegal funding
Low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair sought to justify the funding it has received from the Catalan government to fly out of the airports of Reus and Girona, but slammed subsidies afforded to its Barcelona-based rival More...
Barcelona mulls Formula 1 bow-out
After it emerged last week that the Valencia government is reconsidering its role as host of the European Grand Prix due to the parlous state of the region's finances, the Catalonia government said Monday that it More...
Detention center in Barcelona under fire after migrant dies
A 21-year-old man from Guinea-Conakry died Friday while he was being held at the Foreigners Detention Center (CIE) in Barcelona after reportedly suffering a heart attack. More...
Gypsies and Senegalese call truce as two suspects jailed for migrant’s death
Two of four members of a Gypsy family arrested earlier this week in connection with the murder of a Senegalese man in Barcelona - an incident that sparked a wave of street violence to protest the death - were ordered More...
Gypsies and Senegalese call truce as two suspects jailed for migrant’s death
Two of four members of a Gypsy family arrested earlier this week in connection with the murder of a Senegalese man in Barcelona - an incident that sparked a wave of street violence to protest the death - were ordered More...
Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead
The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during More...
Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead
The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during More...
Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead
The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during More...
