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War and Christmas: Europe's story is now echoing in Ukraine

Quim Aranda

Christmas letters for Russian political prisoners

Civil Protection asks people to bring forward their return home at Christmas and delay it for Boxing Day due to bad weather.

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How the war between two feared drug clans in Montenegro has reached Catalonia

Cesc Maideu

The underestimated disease that more than a million Catalans suffer in silence

Raquel Villanueva

King Felipe VI's Christmas Speech

King Felipe VI warns against extremism: "The consequences are disastrous"

Núria Rius

King Felipe VI's Christmas Speech

Catalan separatists react against the king's speech

Xavi Tedó

The coldest Christmas ever: these are the places where snow is expected

Xavi Segura

Yukio Mishima, the literary genius who committed harakiri

Guillem Pujol

The untimely offer rejected by Barça's first star

David Valero-Carreras

A documentary that will leave you shocked

Mònica Planas Callol

The series that has won over Anglo-Saxon critics on the best-of-the-year lists

Eulàlia Iglesias

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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Albiol, the arsonist

Forecasts

Christmas with coats and umbrellas: rain and snow return with a midwinter atmosphere

The guilty pleasure you'll see on Netflix this Christmas

Alejandra Palés

Writer Carme Riera: "It was very difficult for me to learn to read"

Bea Cabezas

The mystery of the invented animal that is eaten at Christmas in only one place in the world

Elena Freixa

Dogs that help children read

Leticia Asenjo

"Why don't they want us?": Uncertainty and despair in the distribution of B9 migrants

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

United States-European Union relations

Trump escalates clash with Europe and bans former European commissioner from entering the US.

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The discovery of a million documents potentially related to Epstein delays their publication

Conservative Nasry Asfura proclaimed president of Honduras

"There will be dozens of deaths": Mazón's message to Feijóo before midnight

Xavi Tedó

Social emergency

Albiol: "Don't say certain things, everything here is being recorded."

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Health alert due to a case of avian flu on a farm in Lleida

Carlota Serra

The CREA group dissolves after the UB takes the harassment case of its founder to the prosecutor's office

Natàlia Vila

Christmas in Caracas under the threat of Trump

The Economist

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The Christmas drinks thing

Carlota Serra

Stop machines

Àlex Gutiérrez

Trump's trick to kill an inconvenient story

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The great journey through gastronomic Catalonia

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The last private guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the one for the ARA Premium Club

Premium Club

The Prize Club visits the futuristic columned hall hidden inside the Susqueda dam

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Christmas Chronicle

Before now

Another Christmas (1939)

La Cañada: the same old bar where the side dish for meatballs and capipota is culture

150,000 people live alone in the Balearic Islands: initiatives to ensure no one eats alone this Christmas

David Marquès

Albinism: between exoticism and human genetics

The restoration of memory, in the heart of December

An unexpected journey

Who is the Sibyl, really?

Ignasi Aragay

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Theater criticism

The T's of Teatre don't cry and the public laughs heartily

Santi Fondevila

Sijena's lawyer is demanding €90,000 from Pepe Serra for defamation, an apology, and his resignation.

Antoni Ribas Tur

Over 100 original gift ideas to get it right this Christmas

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What can you do this weekend? Christmas and Three Kings Day markets

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The 30 best books of 2025

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The 20 best films

Xavi Serra

The 20 best exhibitions

Antoni Ribas Tur

The 20 best albums

Xavier Cervantes

Performing Arts

The 10 best shows

Núria Juanico Llumà , Laura Serra and Santi Fondevila

Jules Kounde: "If I listened to everything people say, I would have already quit football"

Albert Nadal

Interview Àlex Palou:

"Being a father hasn't changed me; when I'm piloting, I don't think about my daughter."

Martí Molina

A former Barcelona player retires at 27 for mental health reasons: "I want to return to Manresa"

Albert Nadal

Why is cancer on the rise?

Salvador Macip

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The science behind Kilian Jornet's feats

Hèctor Garcia Morales

The four traps you should avoid when buying an apartment

Albert Rigol Baulenas

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Boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?

The Economist

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Should children be rewarded for getting along?

Elisabet Escriche

Magazines

Mauri Pastry Shop: an abundant paradise of sweet and savory treats

Rosa Rodon

Not a day at home, El Pescadito Frito restaurant, pictured here Oscar and Jesus at the restaurant door, Villarroel street 110, Barcelona.

A fishing neighborhood in the middle of the city

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

Garrotxa cheese, with its characteristic ash-grey color.

Garrotxa cheese is being protected against imitations (at a critical moment in its production)

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Rafa Serra and Judit Giménez at the Sant Jordi Bookstore.

Sant Jordi Bookstore: the cultural and gastronomic gem rescued by responsible citizens

Rosa Rodon

Chef Óscar Álvarez, in front of the kitchen of the restaurant he opened on Monday, December 22nd

Entrevista Òscar Álvarez:

"After six months I left the successful restaurant I had opened, and now I'm opening Barra Oso with dishes that I make from start to finish."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A picture from the Tribut restaurant

A great restaurant for group meals by the sea in Barcelona

Rosa Rodon

Where are the men in boys' lives?

Claire Cain Miller/The New York Times

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Illustration of a pregnant woman in a polluted city

Fleeing Barcelona when you get pregnant

Judit Monclús

Mireia Giro

Entrevista Mireia Giró:

"Some men look for a mother figure in their partner"

Francesc Orteu

Group of children playing in the field

What is resilience and why is it necessary to cultivate it in children?

Esther Escolán

Noel Gallagher at the Barcelona concert

The French name that children like the most

Lara Bonilla and Elisabet Escriche

A child sleeping in class.

Students who fall asleep in class

Xavier Gual

The revolution of books passed down from mothers to daughters

Núria Juanico Llumà

Josep Carner

Josep Carner, the best (also) in Spanish

Ignasi Aragay

Irene Escolar plays Ariel, an inhabitant of Shakespeare's island.

Welcome to Shakespeare Island

María Adell Carmona

A couple who haven't missed a single Canet Rock festival since 1975

1975-2025: This is how different generations have experienced Canet Rock

Sílvia Marimon

Thandiwe Newton, Jack Black and Paul Rudd in 'Anaconda'.

A 200 kg snake and Jack Black wish you Happy Holidays

Belit Lago

Lucrecia presents her 30th anniversary tour.

Lucrecia: "Catalonia is the land where I grew up as an artist and now I want to rediscover myself there."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Is wearing Chanel democratic?

Sílvia Rosés

A couple moved in for a Christmas celebration

Why is it that at Christmas, whoever wears nothing new is worthless?

Sílvia Rosés

I'd never go back to my twenties again, not on your life.

Anna Manso

Appointment with the official document (4)

Appointment with the official document (4)

Mar Mascaró

Cafes where you can go to cry: another way to control your emotions

Mònica Planas Callol

The former storage space of the farmhouse converted into a second home.

A renovation that respects the past and makes the most of every square meter

Cristina Ros

Where do I go if I have a vintage party and I don't know what to wear?

Toni Vall

The Caixa Bank towers in Barcelona.

CaixaBank restructures its management committee

Carlota Serra

Indra's headquarters

Indra and the controversial defense boom in Spain

Núria Rius

The CEO of Axel Hotels, Albert Olivé.

Axel Hotels steps on the gas to reach major European capitals

Cristina Martín Valbuena

The 3Cat Marathon

Solidarity against confrontation

Oriol Aspachs

The lawyer Carla Vall

Carla Vall: "Three men broke into my home to steal a pen drive."

Júlia Riera

The V-16 Help Flash beacon

The V-16 beacon, the controversial invention of two Civil Guard officers valued at over 1.2 billion

Ferran Vital

Volkswagen's glass factory in Dresden

Volkswagen closes its first factory in Germany in 88 years due to low demand for electric cars

Ferran Vital

Ford F-150 Lightning

Ford reverses course and cancels all its electric models

Ferran Vital

Felipe VI also has a problem with Francoism

Christmas Message from King Felipe VI

From the DGAIA to swine fever: have the crises taken their toll on Salvador Illa?

The Prosecutor's Office asks Albiol to clarify what emergency assistance he has given to those evicted from the B9 building.

Soldiers patrol the main road in Guinea-Bissau.

Amílcar Cabral's nightmare: what do coups tell us about the future of Africa?

Zelensky says he will put any peace agreement with Russia to a referendum or ratification vote.

Two police officers and a civilian are killed in the second bomb attack in Moscow in three days.

Albiol addressing the residents gathered to protest the housing of those expelled from the B9

"The residents are satisfied": clash between Albiol and the Badalona opposition over the eviction of the B9

This is the (new) route of the Three Kings Parade in Girona

Entities and Government reach an agreement to rehouse those evicted from the B9 who were under the bridge

Aerial view of the La Llagosta terminal.

The new Llagosta terminal will receive its first freight train in early January

From public transport to pensions: everything that is being extended in 2026

The Bank of Spain ends the year with an upward revision of growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026

Castellón de Empúries

The memory of a clandestine meeting

Playwright and theatre director Francesc Nel·lo dies at 94

Serrat: "I am deeply grateful to the neighborhood and the country where I was born"

Xavi Pascual, in Istanbul.

An unexpected decision leaves Barça high and dry.

The ideal destination for Ter Stegen

The last "hit" of the year for Manolo González's Espanyol

Ruth Lorenzo, presenter of 'Aria, crazy about opera'

Opera for everyone: a few virtues and a mystery

Either we criticize them all, or we throw the stove in the river.

Feijóo's mysterious coded messages

Antoni Bolinches is a Catalan clinical psychologist and writer.

Antoni Bolinches: "Men are afraid of sexual women"

What's in a musician's brain?

Light, fire and centuries-old rituals: the ancestral Christmas traditions that still endure

Lamine Yamal points to the badge after scoring at Camp Nou for the first time

Lamine Yamal makes his YouTube debut, shows off his house, and confesses: "That's why I can't have a girlfriend."

The most talked-about breakups of 2025

Eduardo Casanova announces that he has HIV

Science and Technology

A wild boar in Collserola

The epicenter of the swine fever outbreak was already classified as a maximum risk area.

Type 1 diabetes, the unfinished business in research

Jane Austen, Darwin's favorite author who inspires scientific research