Posters showing Spanish and Catalan flags side by side were vandalised in Barcelona last week "What would happen to our grandparents' pensions?" he asks. "Are they expecting pensions to be paid by ...

"Spanish murderers!" they chant at the building marked with a furled Spanish flag that looks lonely against the Catalan flags on nearby walls. The building is protected by a line of Catalan riot ...

A sea of protesters wearing red shirts and bearing red-and-yellow Catalan flags banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans of support. The turnout was roughly the same as last year.

Barcelona's players emerged at Nou Camp wearing a yellow-and-red-striped club training shirt, colors of the Estelada flag associated with Catalan independence. Barcelona's La Liga game against Las ...