A train ploughed into a group of youngsters taking a short cut to a Spanish beach party killing at least 12 of them.

A blackout that struck Spain’s second-largest city, Barcelona, today will continue to leave more than 100,000 households and businesses without power for at least another day, authorities said.

Spanish and Catalan leaders said today that power over collecting taxes is shaping up as their biggest dispute as they digest a divisive proposal to give the north-east region much greater autonomy.