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The Government expects to restore "normal" service on commuter trains starting next Monday

Marc Toro , Natàlia Vila and Martina Alcobendas

"Neither sabotage nor cyberattack": Adif confirms that Monday's outage was due to new software being tested at night

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Chaos on the commuter rail

The commuter rail users' platform calls for a demonstration separate from the ANC.

Xavi Tedó

The governance of the State

Podemos is now open to unblocking the delegation of immigration powers in Catalonia

The Constitutional Court takes a stand against Puigdemont: it maintains the arrest warrant while considering amnesty.

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

"They drive around looking for people with dark skin, surround them, and kidnap them."

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The EU and India close "the biggest trade deal in history"

Gerard Fageda

Unemployment in Spain falls below 10% for the first time in 18 years

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Education cancels postgraduate courses for improving mathematics and language skills for teachers before they even begin

Diana Silva

An Italian town on the brink of collapse: this is what it looks like after a landslide

Sara Fontserè

“After 35 years of being raped by three priests, I want justice.”

Marcos Torío

Mental laziness, 'posh-progressives' and the lady of Ripoll: the tourist apartment revolt

Albert Rigol

"You're only a great novelist when you're dead."

Quim Aranda

"This is like a pee-and-slippery mess" and other viral videos about Catalan

Laura Serra

Ter Stegen saves a point for Girona on his debut

Jordi Bofill

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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Paramilitary terror in the United States

Antoni Bassas analysis

Will he attend the demonstration on February 7th?

Weather

The weather fronts are relentless: more showers, snow and wind in the coming days

The weather fronts are relentless: more showers, snow and wind in the coming days

The viral tuber that's turning an entire country upside down

Rambo Talabong / The New York Times

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Bras on the Hollywood billboard: Sydney Sweeney's latest controversy (and potential legal trouble)

Alejandra Palés

Why does Greg Bovino's coat evoke Nazi aesthetics?

Sílvia Rosés

Homenotes and dances

The apprentice in a haberdashery who built a multinational fashion company

David Valero-Carreras

Michael E. Long:

"Managing dopamine? You have to ask three questions"

Carla Turró

Barcelona, AI factory: Telefónica and Fujitsu will expand the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer

Agustí Sala

Rutte: "If anyone thinks that Europe can defend itself without the US, they can keep dreaming."

Gerard Fageda

Trump softens his tone on Minneapolis after outrage over the second killing by federal agents

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

A storm in the United States leaves at least 12 dead and hundreds of thousands of homes without power.

ARA

France will ban social media for children under fifteen.

Laia Forès

The Spanish government approves a €20 million compensation plan for Adamuz

Núria Orriols

The Spanish government announces an additional investment of 1.7 billion euros for commuter rail.

ARA

The Spanish government is offering tax breaks to companies affected by the minimum wage increase.

ARA

The signatory of the Madrid nursing home protocols points the finger at Ayuso's government

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The governance of the State

The Spanish government faces its first defeat of the year in Congress

Núria Orriols

Man arrested for killing his daughter in Córdoba

ARA

Case of alleged sexual abuse in Bellvitge: the patient describes the assaults and the orderly denies the facts

Cesc Maideu

Stop machines

Àlex Gutiérrez

'El Mundo' vs. Puente, round two

Interactive

What data do they collect about you at an airport?

Premium Club

Tribute to Joan Maragall at the Palau de la Música Catalana

Premium Club

Rodoreda's stories come alive at the CCCB

Language games

Try ARA, the best games and pastimes site in Catalan

The reader's advocate

Ensaimadas in the Raval, even more on journalism and literature

Before now

Roser Bru, painter trained in exile (1955)

The Tiffon saga: six generations of a family dedicated to medicine with the Rambla as their starting point

The great calçot race

When Mallorca was the epicenter of the Catalan Countries: the Cura meeting of 1976

Francesc M. Rotger

The illness of Charles II

Escaping through language

Serious crisis in one of the pillars of Catalan culture in the Valencian Community

Daniel Martín Fernández

"There are still certain stereotypes about the Ebro, as if we were exotic to a certain part of the country."

Xavier Cervantes

The mystery of the human voice

Jaume Radigales

"There is nothing morbid or tragic about my father's suicide."

Jordi Nopca

The magazine for the little ones is growing up

Judit Monclús

The consequences of the first deluge at the new Camp Nou

Martí Molina

Risking his life to climb one of the tallest buildings in the world without ropes

Toni Padilla

"Sometimes I wish I'd had her life"

Arnau Segura

Barça avoids falling into Oviedo's trap and regains the lead

Toni Padilla

Football - La Liga

Highlights are also valuable: the immediate notes from Barça-Oviedo

Albert Nadal

Why it's good to have an outburst of anger at work

The Economist

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They discover the gene for sleeping few hours

Salvador Macip

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Why does stress affect our stomach?

Salvador Macip

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Scientists discover the anomaly that makes Everest grow taller than the other 8,000 peaks

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Why is cancer on the rise?

Salvador Macip

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Magazines

Starting from scratch: "Listening to your discomfort forces you to make decisions"

Ana Basanta

Hunger, the new deadly sin

Anna Manso

Photograph of the Verdi cinemas in Barcelona in 1987.

100 years of Verdi Cinemas: "If we do our job well, movie theaters will not die"

Toni Vall

The AI-generated image shared by US President Donald Trump shows him planting a flag in Greenland.

What do four elephants and a camel have to do with Donald Trump?

Mònica Planas Callol

Starting from the left, the composer Miquel Ortega, Francesca Argimon and her daughter, the tenor Roger Padulles and Fernando Trias de Bes.

To set Joan Maragall to music after nearly dying

Pere Antoni Pons

Jungle Fever 5.

Jungle Fever (5)

Marc Brocal

Rafael Jiménez Hoyos:

"We want to make Barcelona a very well-connected airport for long-haul flights."

Cristina Martín Valbuena

Passengers affected by the chaos with trains yesterday at the Plaça Catalunya commuter rail station.

Commuter rail: our time is worth less than their inefficiency

Andrei Boar

ECB Headquarters.

De Guindos, getting closer and closer to his departure from Frankfurt

Carlota Serra

Image of the application

The app to save food joins the charitable donations

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Covid-19 vaccination

Taxes, public services and democracy

Alejandro Esteller Moré and José Mª Durán Cabré

Image of Café Roure.

How much does a coffee cost?

Toni Vall

"The political situation may lead us to renewed poverty, and we may have to go back to soup because we have no other choice."

Jordi Bes Lozano

Chef Martín Comamala, at the door of his restaurant in Puigcerdà, 539, Plats Forts

Entrevista Martín Comamala:

"I came from Patagonia to Barcelona to work at El Bulli, I had 900 euros saved, and I spent nine on a beer and a tapa."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Chef Albert Adrià, along with his team, including the restaurant manager, Xavi Alba

“Being number 1 in the kitchen means having a full restaurant and people liking what they eat.”

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Jellyfish are eaten in Asia.

The food that the European Union won't let us Catalans eat

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Laura Grau

Laura Grau: "If there's a good story, I don't care if the wine is bad afterwards"

Elena García Dalmau

Maria Jose and Carlos with their sons Ivan and Carlos at the restaurant bar

The luxury of well-prepared snacks

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

"We have a void that no other creature will fill."

Albert Rigol

Ivan Díez

Entrevista Ivan Díez:

"We are building a new way of being a family"

Francesc Orteu

A child writes a story.

Why is writing (so) difficult?

David Altimir

Children playing hopscotch.

Growing up with a knot in your stomach: a childhood with anxiety and depression

Núria Bigas Formatjé

Tania Soler

Entrevista Tània Soler:

"As an adult, I discovered pivotal events in my life that I was unaware of."

Francesc Orteu

A mother who sleeps little

How does lack of sleep affect parenting?

ARA

Who is Ferran Sáez Mateu?

Ignasi Aragay

The historian David Abulafia

Historian David Abulafia, a passionate and leading expert on the medieval Mediterranean, has died.

Sílvia Marimon

David Uclés receives the Nadal Prize

Writer David Uclés withdraws from a conference on the Civil War because Aznar and Espinosa de los Monteros are present.

Laura Serra

The Chiefless Knight of 'Sleepy Hollow' chasing Ichabod Crane, painting by John Quidor from 1858

How to give the reader a good time without being childish or banal

Gerard Cisneros Cecchini

An image from the 'Balkan Erotic Epic' show.

Marina Abramović's entertaining ode to nudity at the Liceu

Santi Fondevila

A scene from the show 'Mary Magdalene' at the TNC.

A heroine against the contempt of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church

Santi Fondevila

Golf GTI, 50 years of history

The Golf GTI celebrates 50 years with its sights set on electrification

Ferran Vital

This is the new Dacia Sandero (and it's a real pain)

The Dacia Sandero now outperforms the Seat 600

Ferran Vital

Europe tries to stem the 'invasion' of Chinese cars

Chinese automotive groups are preparing for the arrival of twelve more brands over the next two years

Ferran Vital

Valeria Racu, spokesperson for the Madrid Tenants' Union, speaks to the media outside the Congress of Deputies.

Housing groups and the left in Congress are pressuring Junts to save the social safety net.

The railway crisis claims its first two dismissals

The Spanish government will carry out an extraordinary regularization of half a million migrants.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a visit to Lithuania.

Zelensky says the agreement with the US on security guarantees "is 100% ready"

The Israeli army recovers the remains of the last hostage kidnapped in Gaza

"It's a human safari": a trip to Kherson, the Ukrainian city where Russian drones hunt people

Commuter rail users checking their mobile phones in Sants

Unprecedented chaos on commuter rail: Renfe and Adif avoid setting a date for the return to normality

Health Ministry signs agreement for new Framework Statute without the support of medical unions

The president of the commission investigating the Adamuz accident points to a broken weld.

Chaos on the commuter rail

Who pays for the work absenteeism caused by the commuter rail system?

Mortgages continue to grow despite the rise in average interest rates

The new world order reaffirms the risks that companies face.

Public assistant to Enfoquem, ARA, CCCB

"Let's think, let's solve problems and above all... let's not have fun, because we're Catalans!"

'Sundays' beats 'Sirat' at the Feroz Awards

Remigi Palmero, the hero of Mediterranean rock, dies

Ter Stegen, during his presentation at the Montilivi stadium.

Girona's high-profile signings you've forgotten

The ACB's veteran ends Barça's winning streak: the ARA's Instant Replay

Maria Segura Pallerès: "Retiring is accepting that a part of you dies."

The mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, in the '30 minutes'

The '30 minutes' program delves into the problem

Daniel Anglès: "One day the tap was turned on and now I think: 'Why was it so hard for you to cry?'"

Sylvie Kauffmann: "Our social and democratic model is threatened, not just our security."

The crisis of relationships in the age of AI: “I’d rather disappear than receive so much hate”

The crisis of relationships in the age of AI: “To receive so much hate, I’d rather disappear and not interact with anyone.”

Five unmissable routes to explore with snowshoes

What can you do this weekend? Saint Anthony's Day is celebrated throughout the country.

The designer Valentino Garavani

Valentino's legacy: a multi-million dollar empire that his (beloved) ex-boyfriends could inherit

Phil Collins, on his health problems: "I've drunk too much and that's why my kidneys are bad."

Brooklyn Beckham speaks out against his family: "My parents have controlled me my whole life"

Science and Technology

One of the Santiago sisters performing one of the tests.

Guinea pigs in the service of science

Childhood abuse leaves scars on the brain and DNA

Veronika, the first cow to use tools