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A snapshot of Morocco: two-speed growth and a semi-authoritarian monarchy

Cristina Mas

The reality of Morocco is not what its regime portrays.

Editorial

Ceuta, a broken mirror between Europe and Africa

Jaume Portell

Analista de l'informe PISA |

“The countries with the best results are those that can maintain order and concentration in the classroom.”

Diana Silva

Anthropic and OpenAI acknowledge concerns about AI and believe its development should be slowed.

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The farewell of a pizzeria nine kilometers from the war front in Ukraine

Fran Richart

The Houthis, allied with Iran, threaten the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait

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In Sweden, the far right is also closer than ever to governing.

Núria Vila Masclans

The conservative rapporteur of the Constitutional Court rejects the amnesty in Turull: "Having access to what was previously unavailable implies a benefit"

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

"My father couldn't write in Catalan and couldn't speak in Spanish, and this is a portrait of a country."

Laura Serra

Pharmacies are running out of hormone treatments due to menopausal women and trans people

Cristina Sáez

The debate about ayahuasca reaches Girona

Aniol Costa-Pau

Golden Lion for feminist films by Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy

Manu Yáñez

First Women's Division

Barça learns from its mistakes and secures a hard-fought victory at Johan Cruyff

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Second Division

An absurd red card and two goals in five minutes bury Girona's hopes

Jordi Bofill

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Weather

The week ends with sun and an increasingly intense heat

Fogs at the Sau reservoir (Osona).

Periodisme lliure i compromès

"I have always positioned myself on the left, with doubts and criticisms, but on the left nonetheless."

Pilar Gómez Rodríguez / La Maleta de Portbou

"You can't have economic growth and less immigration at the same time: you have to choose."

Cristina Mas

Eggplant stuffed with tuna, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

Barça has not allowed the women's team to run at a loss.

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Discredited words

Carlota Gurt

The judge who was a PP councilor in Madrid and who supported legalizing prostitution

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Catalan nationalism turns the Diada into a rallying cry against the far right

Mireia Esteve

The Diada, in pictures

Xavier Bertral and Ferran Forné

The Diada that shook Catalonia 125 years ago

Roger Palós

Is there anyone in Europe who demonstrates more than the Catalans?

Ivan Sànchez Clivillé

Clashes with police and 18 arrests at anti-fascist demonstration against National Nucleus

Xavi Tedó

How far can the National Court's investigation into the Ceuta crisis go?

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Irene Montero presents her candidacy for the general elections: "Good people are the majority"

Roger Palós

The chief of staff of the Ceuta delegation who spoke with the CNI resigns

Andrea Zamorano

'Lolololos' for the pro-independence comeback

Joan Burdeus

The ANC denounces the "irregular detention" with "excessive use of force" of eight minors for the Diada

Lower wages and more unhappiness: the gap that gives wings to the far right in eastern Germany

Nazaret Romero

Trump absent from the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11 in New York

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Vance is looking ahead to 2028 and urging Republicans not to "throw it all away" because of Trump's decisions.

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

September Eleventh

Hundreds of people pay tribute to Salvador Allende in Barcelona on the 53rd anniversary of his death

Israel uses 1,100 tons of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel network

Ethel Bonet

Tension (also) takes hold in social dialogue

Núria Rius

What is the most sought-after apartment like on the platforms?

Laura Casserres Capdevila

"Tasks that previously would have taken thousands of years can now be done in a few hours."

Alberto Prieto

Childhood holds the secret to longevity: Valentí Fuster's recipe for aging well

Gerard Pruna

Ten days after the tragic crime: what is happening in Manresa?

Cesc Maideu

Josep Maria Trias de Bes, the politician who went from Pujol's CiU to Aznar's PP, has died.

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Is it AI's fault?: Here's what PISA says about how it has affected the results

Diana Silva

Reportatge

A port to return to

The beginning and the return of a fishing day, when the sea was who marked the destiny of each boat.

Antoni Bassas analysis

1976-2026, from the National Day of hope to that of fear

Miniature column

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

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

Reader's Advocate

Journalistic alerts about climate change

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

The 250 square meter art space in Poble-sec that doesn't want to be a gallery

Joan Burdeus puts on a contemporary sweater

Events in the Balearic Islands

A stinging boss wreaks havoc on the Son Sardina estate: "It's like a bomb has been dropped"

Héctor Rubio

September, time to return

"When you abandon your mother tongue, sometimes you must also abandon your dreams."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Carles Solà, former Minister of Universities and former rector of the UAB, has died.

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Rediscovering the enthusiasm for the new school year

David Altimir Sans

The tycoon who emptied his museum to take Joan Miró's great triptych to the Netherlands

Antoni Ribas Tur

Lady Gaga has secretly become a mother

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Roberto turns El Sadar into a blue and white paradise

Marc Mosull

Hansi Flick will once again change the starting eleven against Levante.

Marc Márquez stuns his rivals in San Marino

Albert Nadal

The woman in sport

New measures to help female athletes during pregnancy and postpartum

CN Sabadell breaks its silence and responds to Maica García, who accuses the club of firing her for being a mother

Albert Nadal

Marc Casadó's last days at Barça

Xavi Hernández Navarro

Who is leaving Junts?

Toni Rodon

The new global race to control shipping lanes

Albert Llimós

Why is it important to have a latch on the bedroom door?

Beti Badia

Going to therapy with "the secret illusion and hope of getting better" and feeling cheated

M. Àngels Cabré

Trapped in Afghanistan: I have to invent a husband who doesn't exist in order to leave the country

Madina Ayar

Magazines

'Cleanse aura', 'six seven' and other harmless constructions of youth identity

Sebastián Marín

Magda the fairy (2)

Magda the fairy (2)

Chema Peral

A view of the house.

From old workshop to home studio

Cristina Ros

An Amazigh community of the High Atlas three years after the Morocco earthquake.

"It is not just rebuilding, it is preserving a culture": three years since the Morocco earthquake

Fabio Lovati

President Donald Trump getting off Air Force One with his assistant Natalie Harp highlighted in the background.

The human printer

Mònica Planas Callol

The journalist Constantino del Esla with his son, Horacio, at twenty years old at one of the meetings with Spanish exiles.

"Pablo Neruda helped us": Living memory of those who fled from Franco by sea

Iker Mons

"Rather than saving money, I think I'll earn it."

Júlia Riera Rovira

Apartments under construction in Barcelona

A new real estate crisis?

Oriol Aspachs

The interior of the furniture and artwork restoration shop Vell-Món on Ramon i Cajal street.

Good taste is noted in the furniture you have at home

Toni Vall

Faber-Castell.

Who are the Faber-Castell? The family that leads the world production of pencils

Marc Amat

Portrait of the economist and politician Pere Bosch i Labrús published in La Ilustració Catalana.

The tailor from Besalú who ended up defending protectionism in Madrid

David Valero-Carreras

Clear and Catalan: the success formula of Parlem Telecom

Parlem changes the presidency and Sabadell reinforces technology

Alberto Prieto

Is haute cuisine dead?

Rosa Rodon

The content creator Júlia Riera (Daily Catalan).

Entrevista Júlia Riera:

"I always tell my friends: «Catalan wine, eh, don't buy me a Rioja or a Ribera»"

Elena García Dalmau

The pastry chef Lluc Crusellas.

Lluc Crusellas, the chocolatier who from Osona seduced the world

Rosa Rodon

All the team of the restaurant Las Palmeras of Torredembarra.

Where the grandparents brought the grandchildren and now the grandchildren bring the children

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

Les Poisson Rouge, located at the entrance of the port of Port-Vendres.

Five tables in front of the sea in Northern Catalonia

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

Anh Van Chac Sam and Carles Amat Bertran at the restaurant.

Món Việt, the restaurant that opens the door to Vietnamese cuisine

Rosa Rodon

The father, the casteller, and the daughter, the enxaneta: Let's form a family gang!

Marc Serrano i Òssul

First day of the school year.

The start of the school year also trains them for life

Cristina Gutiérrez Lestón

Anna Manso, photographed at her home.

"Perfection kills, humor saves lives"

Francesc Orteu

High school students in a high school hallway

Why is separating students by levels counterproductive?

Judit Monclús

Ralph, Carmen and their daughters

Retiring in the political center of the world

Alba Asenjo

Nursery school with parents and students in class

Start of the school year: school adaptation can also be rethought

Elisenda Rosanas

"No matter how much theory you have, you can't escape a destructive relationship because desire will drag you down."

Sílvia Marimon

The British writer Ian McEwan during the presentation of his novel Nutshell at the CCCB in Barcelona.

Ian McEwan: "The dead watch us with a touch of shame and another of pride for all that we do not know about them"

Jordi Nopca

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham at the presentation of the film 'Naza' at the Venice Film Festival 2026.

The horror of the Gaza genocide shakes Venice

Manu Yáñez

The architect Carmen Torres.

Carmen Torres, ultralocal architecture is universal

Antoni Ribas Tur

Sara Blanch, soprano, photographed in the gardens of the Library of Catalonia

Sara Blanch, a great voice in the most prestigious opera houses in Europe

Xavier Cervantes

Irene Solà in an archive image.

Irene Solà, the writer who could have made a pact with the devil

Jordi Nopca

The Seat Arona and the Seat Ibiza, in a promotional image.

All the models and brands that Volkswagen will eliminate in its readjustment plan

Ferran Vital

Electric car

These are the most reliable electric car brands on the market according to the OCU

Ferran Vital

This is the new Volkswagen Golf 2024

Volkswagen backs down and brings back diesel engines in the Golf

Ferran Vital

Demonstrators who have participated in the September 11 demonstration in Amposta, arriving at the Hanging Bridge

Independence movement takes advantage of the Amposta Diada to denounce territorial grievances

Ripoll City Council distances itself from Cotarelo's call for war against Islam, whom it has hired for the Diada

Why does Puigdemont now have an opportunity?

A fruit and vegetable stall in the Medina of Rabat

Morocco: southern border of the EU

The five detainees in Guantanamo who are still awaiting trial for having planned 9/11

Trapped in Afghanistan: when studying abroad becomes an impossible mission

Mantellate charter school, in Valencia.

Remove the teacher recognized for doing conversion therapies due to the pressure of the families

The 54,949, the first prize of the Grossa de la Diada

Nine heads of the Mossos in nine years: "And what if this happened in a company with 20,000 employees?"

A shared apartment in the city of Barcelona in an archive image. PERE TORDERA

This is the average rent of a room in Barcelona, according to the OCU

Lagarde calls for reducing some public spending items to invest in AI

Equalizing the per capita wealth of the richest in the EU: a path of up to 30 years for Spain

The monastery of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra in Badalona

Badalona initiates the expropriation of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra to make a thematic center about the "discovery" of America

Yes, the Cirque du Soleil can still surprise

Metal returns to conquer the Diada with the Catalunya Triomfant festival

Manu Sánchez disputes a ball with Lamine Yamal in the League match between Levante UD and FC Barcelona at the Ciutat de València.

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

Alejandro Francés: "It sucks coming to work and finding colleagues who don't want to be there"

"With all due respect, Ignasi, this will be the last time Barça calls you"

Pablo Motos with Carlos Latre characterized as the Spanish president Pedro Sánchez, on 'El hormiguero'.

Latre, do not let them use you

The gaps of the Diada on TV3

Exclusive! It is no longer possible to be a good person

A parade of Santa Eulalia.

Barcelona completes 100 years of fashion shows: what remains of the luxury of 1926?

What can you do this weekend? Wine, habaneras, folk and other proposals

From Bodega Fermín to 'smash burger'

Princess Leonor begins her studies at the Carlos III University of Madrid, on September 7, 2026

Leonor is already a university student: how has her first day been?

The funeral of Harald of Norway: an obstacle course around Oslo and some tense encounters

John Galliano, trapped by his antisemitic past, forced to renounce the tribute from the Metropolitan of New York

Science and Technology

Claudia Soriano

Clàudia Soriano, the weather woman from distant worlds who wants to return to Catalonia

Eduard Masvidal, the Catalan who treats the brain with new materials

Guillem Blanco Fernández, the mathematician who solved a problem that had resisted for 40 years