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A yellow tide of teachers floods Barcelona: "Parlon, Niubó, we want your resignation!"

Diana Silva and Marc Toro | 26

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Iolanda Segura:

"With a proposal of 400 euros per month, we could talk about ending the protest."

Diana Silva

Health authorities confirm the Spanish passenger tested positive for hantavirus and, for the moment, rule out the rest.

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Keir Starmer refuses to resign despite pressure from some of his ministers

Quim Aranda

The prosecution and the Jubany family are asking for Santi Laiglesia to be sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Laia Galià

"Aliança Catalana is ground zero for the far right"

Xavi Tedó

Lewandowski's Catalan independence flag and Lamine Yamal's Palestinian flag mark the Barça celebration

Martí Molina

The 'Bribón', former ship of Juan Carlos I, one of the 22 destroyed by Israel in the assault on the Flotilla

Cristina Mas

"The hearing was suspended because the prosecutor did not understand Catalan."

Aina Vidal

Messi buys the former Wagner Galleries for €11.5M

Alberto Prieto

Stuani's eternal miracles save Girona from a big problem in Vallecas

Jordi Bofill

The Catalan production company with three films at the Cannes Film Festival

Xavi Serra

Periodisme lliure i compromès

12/05/2026

Education: Is there any possibility of agreement?

Antoni Bassas analysis

Teachers want much more than a salary increase

Teachers want much more than a pay raise

Weather

Alert in many regions today for a spell of showers and thunderstorms

Alert for a new spell of showers and storms on Tuesday

What is ciguatera, a new food poisoning that has already reached the Canary Islands?

Rosa Rodon

Interview Llucia Ramis:

"Even with a mortgage, I'm terrified I won't be able to pay for my apartment."

Laura Serra

"You were born in Catalonia, but I chose to come here."

Albert González Farran

"When I worked as a cook, I was always angry."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The devil who wears Prada is no longer scary.

Sílvia Rosés

T-shirts, mugs and scarves: the passion for castells goes beyond the square

Júlia Camprubí Díez

Is it true that there are more crimes in Catalonia, or is it just a growing public alarm?

Cesc Maideu

Half of Valencian teachers go on strike on the first day of an indefinite strike: "We will resist to the fullest extent."

Daniel Martín Fernández

The Mossos d'Esquadra will assess "the proportionality" of the infiltration into a teachers' assembly

Cesc Maideu

University entrance exams: the new method to prevent students from cheating with their mobile phones

Diana Silva

Trump wants to eliminate climate research by dismantling agencies that study phenomena like El Niño.

Sònia Sánchez

EU states export surveillance technology to countries that violate human rights

Núria Sala Ventura

Death penalty for the October 7th attackers in Israel: a tailor-made law is passed to try those arrested

Catherine Carey

Iran threatens to enrich uranium to 90% if attacked again

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Israel intensifies bombing in Lebanon ahead of new round of negotiations

Ethel Bonet

Israel's strategy to turn Eurovision into a soft power tool

Mara Hvistendahl / Alex Marshall (The New York Times)

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Nissan will lay off 211 workers, 37% of its workforce in Catalonia

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Rents in Catalonia rose less than the national average during the first year of the price cap.

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Rheinmetall and Deutsche Telekom join forces to protect Germany against drones

Roger Hernández Pujol

Catalonia is the 7th world hub for clinical trials

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Great men and great women

Jackie Kennedy's grandfather who built luxury apartments in Manhattan

David Valero-Carreras

The prosecutor in the Pujol case invokes "Spain is robbing us"

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The prosecution maintains its request for a prison sentence for the eldest son of the Pujol family and the rest of the defendants.

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Andalusian elections

Polls point to a historic defeat in Andalusia... but the PSOE is confident of a comeback.

Núria Orriols

The governability of the State

Madrid is also demanding more money from the State: it quantifies a debt of 12.367 billion

Andrea Zamorano

The Catalan legislature

PSC and ERC unblock the 'fourth ring road' railway project to avoid passing through Barcelona

Mireia Esteve and Núria Orriols

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

Journalism

Esther Vera, director of ARA, National Communication Award

Comic

The ARA comics section returns with a cover by Paco Roca and the entire newspaper illustrated by Catalan classics.

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The reader's advocate

To publish or not to publish, that is the question

Opinió

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

"There is not only the right to stay in the city, but also the right to live well."

Explaining Tirant lo Blanc in the time of 'No means no'

Cori Calero: "90% of effective climate policies are made at the local level"

“After 55 years in Gràcia, we only ask the Bishopric for a dignified exit.”

Joan Socies

Daring ones, April is for you

Savall, from Venice... with love

Jaume Radigales

The remains of 14 individuals have been located who could be the first inhabitants of the Sant Llorenç del Munt monastery.

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Influencer consumption in Catalan skyrockets by 70%

Laura Serra

"Your father was an extraordinary human being"

Xavier Cervantes

Barcelona dresses in red in solidarity with the People in Red Gala

Joan Callarissa

Performing arts

The productions that Temporada Alta will premiere in 2026

Núria Juanico Llumà

Learning Catalan

Barcelona reaches record number of places to learn Catalan

Laura Serra

The power of the mind and the panic of Espanyol are studied at university

Marc Mosull

Ten special photographs of ten crucial moments in Barça's La Liga campaign

Albert Nadal

Business operations

Gerard Piqué and José Elías fined €300,000 for insider trading

Albert Cadanet Vilà

Barça wins the League on a glorious night against Madrid

Toni Padilla

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The secret to having great sex at 77

Selena Soro

Walden 7: This is what life is like fifty years later

Catalina Serra

Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf or Kandinsky: did their talent stem from suffering?

Laura Saula

Why is the whole world becoming nearsighted?

Anabel Herrera

Are there more conflicts between neighbors than before?

Cesc Maideu

Magazines

"It makes sense to take Nutella on a space mission; we had one too."

Sònia Sánchez

20260423 Two women dressed as flamenco dancers, at the April Fair, in Seville

The flamenco dress: folklore or costume?

Sílvia Rosés

Flowers for men

Mònica Planas Callol

The Renau Giant (5)

The giant head Renau (5)

Genís Rigol

Pilarín Vallès in the old town of Vic

More than places: six stories, six spaces

Bàrbara Julbe

View of the house's kitchen

The house that looks at old dairies

Cristina Ros

"If I were rich, my addiction would be compulsive shopping."

Júlia Riera Rovira

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The general shareholders' meeting of Sabadell.

De Guindos will collaborate with IESE and the mobile sector is shaken

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Diners.

Money is worth less and less

Andrei Boar

Marc Puig at the shareholders' meeting

Will there be a merger of Puig and Estée Lauder?

Agustí Sala

Anaconda Bridge Builder presented in Sant Cugat del Vallès

Catalonia and defense investment: from taboo to idyll?

Núria Rius

Strait of Hormuz

Does the economy pass through Ormuz?

Oriol Aspachs

"If you're a science person, you can't be a humanities person; it's ridiculous."

Francesc Orteu

Reconciled brothers.

Why forcing a child to apologize can be counterproductive?

Bàrbara Julbe

Ramon Miravet as a child.

Ramon Mirabet: "My parents separated in a very nice way"

Bea Cabezas

Jordi, with his family and the groups of friends with whom they share the second residence

Why are more and more Catalan families sharing houses on weekends?

Elisenda Rosanas

Arnau Solsona

Entrevista Arnau Solsona:

"In a large family, the couple is the minority"

Francesc Orteu

Francesc Balagué has written a book that pays tribute to grandmothers.

A tale to honor Grandma Carme

Esther Escolán

"It's not said enough that pregnant women should eat fish."

Rosa Rodon

A package of grated cheese.

The great deception of industrial grated cheese packages

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Kimura Miyoshu with the most expensive tuna in the world

From the most expensive fish in the world to the superpowers of Posidonia: a handful of figures to see the oceanic dimensions of the sea that feeds us

Rosa Rodon

The garden of the restaurant of the Hotel Alma of Barcelona

The green garden with restaurant of the yolk of the egg of Barcelona where peas from Maresme and Navarra are eaten

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Xavi de la Iglesia

Entrevista Xavi de la Iglesia:

"For artists, things would go a little better for us if we had minimal notions of law"

Elena García Dalmau

The original website of Disfrutar Barcelona contains the full name of the restaurant without any hyphens

Alert for the scam of table reservations on fake restaurant websites such as Disfrutar or El Celler de Can Roca

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

"I felt my blood pressure drop and realized I'd been living life at 100 miles per hour."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Content in catalan

Detail of 'Anatomy of a skeleton'

The persistent (in)mortality of the comic

Jordi Costa

'Refuge', by Manolo Alcántara

"The Trapezi Fair has become the epicenter of circus in southern Europe"

Núria Juanico Llumà

The graphic image of the 31st edition of FIRE!! has been done by Hadi Moussally

The FIRE!! exhibition becomes a festival

João Borges

One of the windows of the last original dwelling of Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló opens to the public the last original dwelling in the building

Antoni Ribas Tur

Aziz Ansari and Keanu Reeves in 'Heavenly Film'

Jokes with a small mouth

Joan Pons

Bugatti W16 Mistral

The Volkswagen group sells Bugatti

Ferran Vital

A worker at the ITV station

More emissions control, safety systems and electric cars: the changes the EU is preparing for the ITV

Ferran Vital

One cannot speak of a specific age from which it is advisable to stop driving.

The DGT toughens the requirements for drivers over 65 years old

Ferran Vital

The president of the Spanish bishops, Luis Argüello, greets the general secretary of Vox, Ignacio Garriga

The Spanish bishops extend a hand to Vox: "There are no irreconcilable positions"

Can elections be manipulated in Spain?

The five folders of Operation Catalonia that still resist in the courts

The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, at this Monday's press conference.

The EU expands sanctions against Jewish settlers in the West Bank

The accused of trying to attack Trump at the correspondents' dinner pleads not guilty

Starmer attempts the restart: rebellion postponed but not aborted

A cruise passenger affected by hantavirus makes the heart sign on board the bus that transports him to the airport.

One of the Spaniards on the cruise tests provisionally positive for hantavirus

Minor arrested for fatally stabbing a man in the center of Barcelona

The Barça parade: blocked streets and diverted bus lines

José Vicente de los Mozos and Àngel Simón arrive at Indra's meeting in Catalonia.

Indra wants to hire 1,500 new employees in Catalonia

Almirall's profit falls 29% in the first quarter despite the boost from the dermatology segment

AI already accounts for more than 60% of global investment in 'start-ups'

Still from 'Recreation of a Murder'

Praise of reasonable doubt

A crime has been written... in the corral

Lucy Worsley: "Does it seem normal to you to share a bed with coworkers?"

Vinícius during the classic on May 10th at the Camp Nou.

It's to piss yourself laughing

The Barça parade through the streets of Barcelona

The merit of Hansi Flick and the consecration of a golden generation

The general secretary of the PP of Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, and the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, on 'Espejo Público'.

The hantavirus battle

The ulcers of the cave with the Barça League

Beyond saying that journalism is paid for

"Screens, sugar and 'scroll': this is how they hack our brains with superstimuli"

Time for terraces, from Paris to Barcelona

What can you do this weekend? Ceramics, wine, puppets and other gastronomic and cultural proposals

Amaia Montero at the return concert of La Oreja de Van Gogh in Bilbao.

First concert of return of La Oreja de Van Gogh: between euphoria and suffering

The starry sky of the Met Gala, ever darker

Willy Bárcenas and the haunted house (of his parents)

Science and Technology

Two dormice playing.

Do octopuses dream like humans?

Birds with shorter wings or crabs in yogurt pots: human activity forces species to evolve

Hexagons, fractals, and flows: nature's patterns inspire humans