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Nepal

At least 160 dead and hundreds missing after a massive flash flood between Nepal and Tibet

Meta will pay $17 billion to avoid trial over children's addiction to social media

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Meta cancels the lawsuit to save the business

Liliana Arroyo Moliner

Podemos maintains its veto on the transfer of powers in immigration despite Junts' gesture

Núria Orriols

Tribunals

The judge dismisses Íñigo Errejón's defamation lawsuit against Elisa Mouliaá

ARA

Outrage among historians over how their search has been manipulated to protect a Francoist symbol

Sílvia Marimon

Life on the edge of the flames in Torre Baró: "They don't clean the mountain here"

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

Barça

Barça changes its tribute to the world champions with Spain to an "act of exaltation of the Estelada"

Raúl Zambrano Lozano and Xavi Hernández Navarro

Who orders the removal of Catalan independence flags from stadiums?

R. P.

Barça

Gavi supports the young man assaulted by the Spanish police in Elche

Tour of Spain

The hotel of miracles that protected the best cyclists in the world

Toni Padilla

Reportage

Not only does Barça speak Catalan in Europe: the last frontier of Andorran football

Marc Mosull

Housing

This is the most expensive house for sale in Catalonia.

ARA

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Weather

More sun on a Thursday marked by the rise in temperature

The sun will gain ground before a transient thermal descent

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

Iniciativa de:

When bad taste becomes power

Sílvia Rosés

Zoe Bonafonte recommends a book that has helped her mentally

Biel Roura Amat

Jacob Elordi is very lonely, poor thing.

Joan Pons

Natalie Portman, ridiculed in Rachel Cusk's latest book?

Jordi Nopca

"I'm still one of those people who see the sunrise when they go out partying."

Selena Soro

The average pension has doubled in the last twenty years, outpacing wages and the CPI.

Laura Casserres Capdevila

The wage gap between employers and workers in Catalonia has grown by 70% in four years.

Albert Cadanet Vilà

Mortgage signings grow by 11% amid the Euribor surge

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Banking

Revolut launches its first euro-linked stablecoin

Labor market

"It's the ideal time to take the civil service exam."

Núria Sala Ventura

Margarita Robles is left alone: the Spanish government maintains there was no warning about a crisis in Ceuta

Núria Orriols

The legislature in the State

The PP and Vox parties are calling for demonstrations in Ceuta in various Spanish municipalities and in Brussels.

The Spanish government is considering using sports centers to house migrants, but Ceuta rejects the idea.

Núria Rius

The legislature in the State

Interpol arrests Abu Dhabi businessman Hamlyn, implicated in the hydrocarbons scandal and linked to Leire Díez

A new protest is being organized against Mazón to demand the suspension of his capacity limits.

Mapi Casabán

Why is the regime closing cafes in Tehran?

Leily Nikounazar i Yeganeh Torbati / The New York Times

Content in catalan

Opinion

At least 15 babies die in a fire at a hospital in Pakistan

A Russian attack kills a woman and a 4-year-old girl in a city in northern Ukraine

A collision involving a vehicle carrying five young people traveling in the opposite direction resulted in seven deaths and 17 arrests.

Quim Aranda

The CIA director is traveling to Moscow, according to US media.

Events

A young man falls from a balcony in the Raval neighborhood while trying to escape from the police.

Lola Medina Cirera

Two minors find the bodies of their parents in the jacuzzi of a house in Cullera, Valencia

Mapi Casabán

Education

Education strike: USTEC demands Isla take over negotiations before the start of the school year

ARA

Events

Authorities are investigating the death of a man while he was practicing at a shooting range in Hospitalet.

Justice

The "Master of Escapes", a dangerous fugitive wanted by Italian justice, is arrested in Tarragona

Opinió

Andrei Boar

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

Press compilation

The far right tightens its grip on the EU

Send us the summer postcard and you will participate in a raffle

'A summer of postcards', the ARA's new initiative to reconnect with paper

Premium Club

How has the Catalan character influenced the country's architecture?

Reader's Advocate

Antoni Batista

Page 60, summer 'making of'

Opinió

Andrei Boar

There's no need to cut back on small, everyday expenses.

Línia |

Urban art enters the classroom to rethink peace

Núvol |

Aurèlia Muñoz and paper: the story of an underappreciated art

Ara Balears |

Police remove terraces in the Born district for fear of "sabotage" during the neighborhood's al fresco dinner

L'Avenç |

The origins

The music world mourns the death of Dolly Parton

Jordi Nopca

Tim Curry, the charismatic star of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', has died.

Alejandra Palés

Reportage

Catalan rumba is making its mark at UNESCO and in dance halls

Jordi Garrigós

Phoebe Bridgers' return with a stop in Barcelona

Avril Pardos Casado

Interview

"Breaking up with a friend is one of the most painful things that has ever happened to me."

Alejandra Palés

Series

Kate Winslet will star in the new Netflix series from the creators of 'Adolescence'

Obituary

Anthropologist and emeritus professor of the URV Joan Prat dies at 79

Opinion

"I signed Claudia Pina's renewal with Barça when she was eight months pregnant."

Marina Petrus

Atlético de Madrid

Julián Álvarez is not training with Atlético de Madrid

Interview

Lleida CF will be able to play at the Campo de Deportes

Reportage

These are the secrets to packing a good suitcase

Jordi Garrigós

Content in catalan

Reportage

What can be done to recognize and prevent heatstroke?

Gemma Garrido Granger

Content in catalan

Reportage

Stop it, you're on vacation: "We're not resting, we're just swapping one activity for another."

Laura Saula

Content in catalan

Reportage

Tricks to gain two hours a day

Clara Massons

Reportage

Have you found wilted plants? Here's how to revive them.

Aure Farran

Content in catalan

Magazines

Reportage

The story of the Italian cook who is a rebel three times over

Rosa Rodon

The cheesemaker Mercè Lagrava with the goat cheeses she prepares daily in Josa del Cadí

The Pyrenean cheese dairy that has received more than a hundred messages from candidates who want to keep the brand and the herd

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Reportatge

Why shouldn't we drink seawater (even if it's recommended on social media)

Jordi Bes Lozano

Billy Thorens, owner of the Billy Brunch restaurant chain.

Billy Brunch: "Why do pizza and ramen not have the same problems as 'brunch'?"

Rosa Rodon

Aina Seriñana, wine waitress, with her brother Adrià, chef, at the table on the upper floor of the Es Baluard restaurant in Cadaqués

Entrevista Aina Seriñana:

"I charge about 13 or 14 euros more per bottle of wine compared to the selling price; if I put more difference, then people won't drink it"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

If you buy gazpacho in a brick carton, check that these ingredients are on the label

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

"The grief of not being a mother is a taboo subject."

Elisabet Escriche

Abu Obaida, with his wife and some of his grandchildren, inside the tent where part of the family currently lives.

Two summers in front of the same sea

Catherine Carey Arribas

The writer Regina Rodríguez Sirvent when she was little

Regina Rodríguez Sirvent: "School was my life, I was there from sunrise to sunset"

Magda Minguet

Mother and daughter against the traditional model

Mother and daughter, against the traditional family model and the conventions of Putin's Russia

Albert Sort

Mari Pau Huget, the fifth in the front row, inside a kindergarten classroom at La Bordeta schools in Lleida with Miss Elvira.

Mari Pau Huguet: "When summer arrived, I was sorry that school was ending"

Albert González Farran

Anna Molas:

"Egg donors are sustaining a large industry with their work"

Lara Bonilla

Hungarian literature loses one of its most prestigious authors, Péter Nádas, at the age of 83.

Jordi Nopca

The writer Isabel Olesti photographed in Barcelona

Isabel Olesti novels desire and fear in the midst of war

Núria Juanico Llumà

Dolly Parton at a concert in Glastonbury, 2014

The legendary Dolly Parton dies at 80 years old

Xavier Cervantes

Charli XCX in an image from the movie 'Eruption'.

Charli XCX does indie for Warsaw

Gerard Casau

The writer Ester Invernon photographed in Barcelona

Ester Invernon: "You cannot love one child more than another, but you can treat them differently"

Núria Juanico Llumà

Victoria Luengo and Javier Bardem in an image from the film 'The Beloved'.

Victoria Luengo and Javier Bardem shine in Sorogoyen's (too) metafilmic drama

Manu Yáñez

Why is it news when a queen wears the same dress twice?

Sílvia Rosés

Sara Campanales, scientist who lives in Ecuador.

Sara Campanales: leaving the city to go live in the jungle

Toni Padilla

Laura Ramos, author of the book where she explains that her nanny was a Russian spy.

My nanny was a Stalin spy

Iker Mons

The Matrimandir is the central temple of the population.

The utopian city of India that lives a profound crisis

Nicola Zolin

We need this idiom in Catalan (4)

Max Vento

'Alien': if you find alien eggs in outer space, don't touch them

Maria Rovira (Oye Sherman)

The Catalan family business is looking for (the best) relief

Albert Cadanet Vilà

Inflows and outflows in the Catalan wine sector

Alberto Prieto

A group of students, in a high school in Barcelona

The lesson of the educational system

Oriol Aspachs

Pau Xifra, president of Comexi and grandson of the founder of the Girona company at the plant in Riudellots de la Selva.

The Girona technology behind the supermarket packaging

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

President Trump this Wednesday in Washington, at the events commemorating the independence of the USA

White House, Inc., the Trump business

Agustí Sala

Gessamí Caramés: "I am a cook, not a businesswoman"

Júlia Riera Rovira

Hyundai renews the Tucson to continue growing

Ferran Vital

Close-up of happy senior man sitting in car in driver seat, driving.

Driving from 75 years of age, a risk factor?

Ferran Vital

Europe tries to stem the 'invasion' of Chinese cars

Sales of Chinese cars in Europe grow non-stop

Ferran Vital

Politics

How do Ceuta and Melilla work?

What would the police have said if there were no images of the assault on the minor?

Oaks and Marlaska get tangled up with the CNI's warnings about Ceuta

International

A picture of the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, at the end of July on a street in Rabat.

The King of Morocco implicitly claims sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla

A group of hackers leak the data of 70,000 Moroccan intelligence agents as a "gift" to Spain

The Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with his plan to restrict mail-in voting

Society

Firefighters and neighbors of Ciutat Meridiana observe the fire.

In the stabilization phase the fire in Collserola that has forced the evacuation of some homes and the confinement of neighbors

Denounce saturation in public healthcare in the Ribera region, in Valencia

Mother and daughter die injured by the fall of a wall in Roda de Berà during the downpours

Economy

A successful strategy

Volkswagen confirms the first major staff reduction in Germany in 89 years

Garamendi will not need elections to continue presiding over the CEOE

Culture

Jordi Rincón, author of the book 'The wisdom of the classics'.

"Classical studies teachers are survivors"

Pep Parés recommends a criminal intrigue about Ramon Llull

Àngel González: "We opened a wardrobe and found the proof that my grandmother had been killed in 1936"

Sports

Soccer Football - UEFA Champions League - Round of 16 - Second Leg - FC Barcelona v Newcastle United - Spotify Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - March 18, 2026 FC Barcelona's Marc Bernal celebrates scoring their second goal with Fermin Lopez REUTERS/Albert Gea

2026-27 Champions League draw guide: schedule, where to watch it, and Barça's possible opponents

Barça-Athletic Club League match guide: schedule, where to watch it and lineups

Barça changes the tribute to the world champions with Spain for an "act of exaltation of the estelada"

Media

The spokesperson for Vox in the Valencian Parliament, José María Llanos, in a file image.

No, the halal menu is not prohibited in Valencian schools

Why newspapers have a duty to censor

The case of the false cat devoured by immigrants

Lifestyle

Men, dare to be vulnerable in bed

Sex and cohabitation: why does desire decrease?

Rafael Santandreu: "Sleeping well is important but not as much as they have sold us"

People

Dies at 102 years old Gerard Piqué's grandmother

The streamer Aruberuto Makoto, who harassed a girl in one of his videos, justifies himself: "It's humor for men"

A Disney child actress denounces the company for sexual abuse during the filming of a movie

Science and Technology

Monica Bettencourt to one of the laboratories.

At least 160 dead and hundreds missing after a massive flash flood between Nepal and Tibet

Meta will pay $17 billion to avoid trial over children's addiction to social media

Meta cancels the lawsuit to save the business

Podemos maintains its veto on the transfer of powers in immigration despite Junts' gesture

The judge dismisses Íñigo Errejón's defamation lawsuit against Elisa Mouliaá

Outrage among historians over how their search has been manipulated to protect a Francoist symbol

Life on the edge of the flames in Torre Baró: "They don't clean the mountain here"

Barça changes its tribute to the world champions with Spain to an "act of exaltation of the Estelada"

Who orders the removal of Catalan independence flags from stadiums?

Gavi supports the young man assaulted by the Spanish police in Elche

The hotel of miracles that protected the best cyclists in the world

Not only does Barça speak Catalan in Europe: the last frontier of Andorran football

This is the most expensive house for sale in Catalonia.

When bad taste becomes power

Zoe Bonafonte recommends a book that has helped her mentally

Jacob Elordi is very lonely, poor thing.

Natalie Portman, ridiculed in Rachel Cusk's latest book?

"I'm still one of those people who see the sunrise when they go out partying."

The average pension has doubled in the last twenty years, outpacing wages and the CPI.

The wage gap between employers and workers in Catalonia has grown by 70% in four years.

Mortgage signings grow by 11% amid the Euribor surge

Revolut launches its first euro-linked stablecoin

"It's the ideal time to take the civil service exam."

Margarita Robles is left alone: ​​the Spanish government maintains there was no warning about a crisis in Ceuta

The PP and Vox parties are calling for demonstrations in Ceuta in various Spanish municipalities and in Brussels.

The Spanish government is considering using sports centers to house migrants, but Ceuta rejects the idea.

Interpol arrests Abu Dhabi businessman Hamlyn, implicated in the hydrocarbons scandal and linked to Leire Díez

A new protest is being organized against Mazón to demand the suspension of his capacity limits.

Why is the regime closing cafes in Tehran?

At least 15 babies die in a fire at a hospital in Pakistan

A Russian attack kills a woman and a 4-year-old girl in a city in northern Ukraine

A collision involving a vehicle carrying five young people traveling in the opposite direction resulted in seven deaths and 17 arrests.

The CIA director is traveling to Moscow, according to US media.

A young man falls from a balcony in the Raval neighborhood while trying to escape from the police.

Two minors find the bodies of their parents in the jacuzzi of a house in Cullera, Valencia

Education strike: USTEC demands Isla take over negotiations before the start of the school year

Authorities are investigating the death of a man while he was practicing at a shooting range in Hospitalet.

The "Master of Escapes", a dangerous fugitive wanted by Italian justice, is arrested in Tarragona

Urban art enters the classroom to rethink peace

Aurèlia Muñoz and paper: the story of an underappreciated art

Police remove terraces in the Born district for fear of "sabotage" during the neighborhood's al fresco dinner

The origins

The music world mourns the death of Dolly Parton

Tim Curry, the charismatic star of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', has died.

Catalan rumba is making its mark at UNESCO and in dance halls

Phoebe Bridgers' return with a stop in Barcelona

"Breaking up with a friend is one of the most painful things that has ever happened to me."

Kate Winslet will star in the new Netflix series from the creators of 'Adolescence'

Anthropologist and emeritus professor of the URV Joan Prat dies at 79

"I signed Claudia Pina's renewal with Barça when she was eight months pregnant."

Julián Álvarez is not training with Atlético de Madrid

Lleida CF will be able to play at the Campo de Deportes

These are the secrets to packing a good suitcase

What can be done to recognize and prevent heatstroke?

Stop it, you're on vacation: "We're not resting, we're just swapping one activity for another."

Tricks to gain two hours a day

Have you found wilted plants? Here's how to revive them.

Magazines

The story of the Italian cook who is a rebel three times over

The Pyrenean cheese dairy that has received more than a hundred messages from candidates who want to keep the brand and the herd

Why shouldn't we drink seawater (even if it's recommended on social media)

Billy Brunch: "Why do pizza and ramen not have the same problems as 'brunch'?"

"I charge about 13 or 14 euros more per bottle of wine compared to the selling price; if I put more difference, then people won't drink it"

If you buy gazpacho in a brick carton, check that these ingredients are on the label

"The grief of not being a mother is a taboo subject."

Two summers in front of the same sea

Regina Rodríguez Sirvent: "School was my life, I was there from sunrise to sunset"

Mother and daughter, against the traditional family model and the conventions of Putin's Russia

Mari Pau Huguet: "When summer arrived, I was sorry that school was ending"

"Egg donors are sustaining a large industry with their work"

Hungarian literature loses one of its most prestigious authors, Péter Nádas, at the age of 83.

Isabel Olesti novels desire and fear in the midst of war

The legendary Dolly Parton dies at 80 years old

Charli XCX does indie for Warsaw

Ester Invernon: "You cannot love one child more than another, but you can treat them differently"

Victoria Luengo and Javier Bardem shine in Sorogoyen's (too) metafilmic drama

Why is it news when a queen wears the same dress twice?

Sara Campanales: leaving the city to go live in the jungle

My nanny was a Stalin spy

The utopian city of India that lives a profound crisis

Margarita Robles is left alone: the Spanish government maintains there was no warning about a crisis in Ceuta