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Catalans maintain perfect start thanks to an early own-goal, Messi’s 100th European goal, and one from Digne

The Spanish Football Federation threatened to suspend the match

Luis Suárez and two own goals settle the first ever Liga derby with Girona – and that’s six wins out of six for the runaway leaders

High-flying Barça returns home Tuesday night for a Week 5 Liga date with Eibar and a chance to stay perfect on the young season

Sergi Roberto and an own goal from Tosca saw Barça home with the woodwork denying Messi the chance to make the win more emphatic

Barça will pay homage to all the victims of the recent terror attacks

Camp Nou payed tribute to their guests, Chapecoense, at the emotional and supportive 52nd Joan Gamper Trophy

64-year-old Catalan mountain climber, Òscar Cadiach, returns home after conquering his fourteenth 8,000-meter peak without oxygen

The Champions League victory is one of the candidates to win 'Best Sporting Moment of the Year'

The Club refers to the buy-out clause of 222 million euros

Pilots from countries like Japan, Israel, England and Netherlands participate in Igualada’s European festival

Three men of different skin colors hold a white flag in the official poster designed by German Jewish refugee

FC Barcelona claimed the Copa del Rey with a 3-1 win over Alavés at the Vicente Calderón, becoming the first side since the 1950s to win the trophy three years in a row. In a hotly-contested affair, the class of Leo Messi stood out as he scored a fine opener as well as setting up the third goal for Paco Alcácer just after Neymar regained the lead for Barça. It was a scrappy start without any clear goalscoring chances for either side, with the Alavés defence standing firm to Barça intricate passing in the final third.

Barcelona and London, the capital cities of Catalonia and the United Kingdom, suffered sustained bombardments by fascist air forces during the first half of the 20th century. Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the aerial bombing of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia (Diplocat) together with the European Observatory on Memories (Eurom) and in collaboration with the University of Brighton organized a conference at London’s Imperial War Museum to share Catalonia and United Kingdom’s history under the fascist bombs. The commemorative event gathered together representatives from the Catalan Government, mayors of some of the cities who suffered the most under the fascist aviation attacks, British politicians, such as Chris Bambery, former spokesman for the APPG on Catalonia, and researchers and historians from both the UK and Catalonia specialized in the Great World Wars.

FC Barcelona rallied back from two goals down to defeat Eibar 4-2 on the final day of the league campaign, but it was not enough to claim the title. Luis Enrique's men men dug deep for their manager on what was his final league game and got the three points, though Real Madrid’s 2-0 win at Málaga ultimately sees the title go the way of the side from the Spanish capital. It was not the fairytale ending Luis Enrique would have wished for on his last league game but the players showed their commitment to the cause with a rallying display, and his tenure could still end with silverware after next Saturday’s Copa del Rey final.