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The PSC would win the elections, with ERC and Vox on the rise and Junts i Comuns on the decline.

Xavi Tedó

The CIS poll catapults the PSOE to a lead of almost twelve points over the PP.

Andrea Zamorano

Who will accompany Rufián on the ERC list?

Puerta del Sol: from a thoroughfare to an agora in twenty days

Núria Rius

The Court of Auditors grants amnesty to Puigdemont, Junqueras and Mas for the Catalan Government's spending during the independence process.

Núria Orriols

The PP and Junts target the PSOE spokesperson over her partner's real estate business

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Zelensky is seeking support in London and Brussels, support that Trump is once again denying him.

Cristina Mas and Quim Aranda

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are focusing their investigation on a former high-ranking official regarding permits for the Montcada cement plant.

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They claim to have discovered the oldest shipwreck in the world

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The death of Isak Andic

The judge in the Andic case summons lawyer Miquel Roca to testify as a witness

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Outrage in the UK after Trump shared video of tiger attack on young Briton

Quim Aranda

Football - The League

Exemplary punishment for Vinícius: the Brazilian will miss the derby (and more matches)

Albert Nadal

More reasons to leave Gordon and Rodri speechless

Xavi Hernández Navarro

Interview Javier Gurruchaga:

"I was a little scared by Camilo José Cela, to be honest."

Àlex Gutiérrez

Periodisme lliure i compromès

14/10/2026

High speed either

Weather

The rains and the atmosphere of full autumn will return the weekend

The rain and the full autumnal atmosphere will return this weekend

Antoni Bassas analysis

Not two fingers of forehead

Miniature column

The geographer accused of being a traitor who made the first modern map of Catalonia

Antoni Ribas Tur

The historic building auctioned for one euro

Laura Casserres Capdevila

The most-watched series in the UK is a friendly mystery for fans of detective stories.

Alejandra Palés

"Brands don't want to send their workers to a country that's at war."

Toni Padilla

Movies, drawings and poetry: what to do with kids this week

Mar Domènech

The US is considering sanctions against Spanish ships over the arms embargo in Israel.

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Trump provokes Greenland again: announces a "massive" oil and gas exploration

Núria Vila Masclans

Did Ukraine attack German interests? The Nord Stream trial begins

Víctor Sanz Guerrero

The University of Barcelona promotes the first European chair of Palestinian studies

Cristina Mas

The most anticipated farewell in Badia del Vallès: asbestos removal begins

Gemma Garrido Granger

High-speed rail service between Barcelona and Madrid will not return to normal until next week.

Natàlia Vila and Arnau Blanch

Barcelona now has the switch to remotely control all the city's streetlights

Gerard Pruna

At gunpoint and with a stolen motorcycle: police are searching for the robbers of several teenagers in Sarrià

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Farmers paralyze the center of Barcelona with a tractor protest to demand aid for the sector: "It's time to say enough is enough"

Albert Cadanet Vilà and Núria Sala Ventura

A guide to understanding what is happening to the left of the PSOE

Mireia Esteve

The PP is embroiled in the pensions debate again: Esther Muñoz says the system will "collapse"

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The former president of Adif decides to cooperate with the justice system and points the finger at the PSOE: "They asked me to place people they liked in positions of power."

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Colau offers to withdraw as a candidate and change the name of the Broad Front for unity with Podemos

Marc Toro and Gerard Fageda

Sánchez places Margarita Robles as number two on the PSOE list of candidates.

Inflation is back at its highest level since 2023 due to rising fuel prices.

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Seat maintains sales growth in Spain

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Indra and the State invest almost 20 million euros in the Catalan company Qilimanjaro

Alberto Prieto

The map of cortados in Barcelona: where is it most expensive?

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Misc

Saint Teresa and the inexhaustible magic of the Old square

The Nens have unloaded the 5d8 at home after nine years

Hit the ceiling

The problem of housing rentals

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

Meeting with subscribers

Mònica Bernabé: "Why doesn't any Catalan university offer online classes and scholarships to Afghan women?"

Premium Club

What a privilege to sail in front of Barcelona!

Reader's Advocate

The headline about the new head of the Mossos, history and gender

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

“The whole school is full of European flags”: the 'They shall not pass' of the classrooms against xenophobia

"There is a desire to prevent Catalan cinema from becoming mainstream."

The Mallorcan woman who is bringing back to the writers sidelined by prejudice and sexism

Josep Genovard

An October of shifting borders

Which nine novels are vying to win the Planeta Prize?

Jordi Nopca

An offering to the Valencian people opens the Fira Mediterrània

Xavier Cervantes

Boots Riley, the communist filmmaker who has brought the revolution to Sitges

Xavi Serra

Alfredo Sanzol finds hope in the loss of a brother

Núria Juanico Llumà

The most cutting-edge international shows are landing in Barcelona

Núria Juanico Llumà

To contemplate the horror from the distance of the screen

Anna Carreras Aubets

Elegy to Miguel Hernández at the Raval Theatre

Santi Fondevila

Football - Champions League

The demons dress in blue and red in the Turkish hell

Albert Nadal

Lamine Yamal's penultimate invention

Xavi Hernández Navarro

Basketball - EuroLeague

Sekulic's nose for goal brings balance to Barça

Àlex Gozalbo

The Public Prosecutor's Office will investigate the chants against Catalonia at the Metropolitano stadium.

The scandals of Barça's Champions League rival

Toni Padilla

"Capitalism keeps working, and music is falling into the hands of three agencies and three ticketing companies."

Dani Colmena

Living in a brand new apartment without being an owner or a tenant

Aniol Costa-Pau

AI and the future of human knowledge

Joseph Stiglitz and Màxim Ventura-Bolet

"I live alone in a cove that Franco didn't expropriate because he died two days before."

Xavi Tedó

Sex and cohabitation: why is desire declining?

Beti Badia

Magazines

The house that talks to the neighborhood

Cristina Ros

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, attends a campaign rally at The Oncenter in Syracuse, New York (USA), on October 9, 2026.

Why does Trump wear a cheap suit?

Sílvia Rosés

The Great Zimbabwe is the ancient ruined capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe, located in the hills of the southeast of the country. The walls of the Great Enclosure reach 11 meters in height.

Journey to the African Machu Picchu, origin of the legend of King Solomon's mines

Xavier Moret

Photograph awarded with the prize for the best dog photographer of the year at the 2026 Dog Photography Awards.

Dogs, the new creatures

Mònica Planas Callol

Dull reflections (1)

Dull reflections (1)

Elva Lombardia

The Mexican actor and director Diego Luna photographed this week in Barcelona.

"We must take care of those who are here to take care of us"

Xavi Serra

How the mobile phone company of the 2000s has been revived

Òscar Gelis

Mr. Ernesto Anastasio Pascual

The sailor who founded Trasmediterránea

David Valero-Carreras

Image of the World Bank's facade in Washington / ACN

The World Bank appoints a new chief financial officer and Ibai and Piqué invest in chocolate

Alberto Prieto

Panoramic view of Barcelona

Housing: 0.47% of the budget

Andrei Boar

Feijóo talks with the president of the Family Business Institute (IEF), Eloi Planes; and the until now general director of this lobby, José Luis Blanco, in Madrid

Feijóo seeks his Body

Agustí Sala

Ibex 35 web

What could happen to the Ibex-35 after 11-29?

Núria Rius

When theatre enters the classroom

Mar Domènech

After-school football match.

The impossible puzzle of extracurriculars: how many activities are too many?

Carlos Bueno

And my frustration, what about it?

Without shouts or punishments: how to teach to tolerate frustration

Olga Vallejo

Cristina Canamases.

Cristina Canamases:

"For the generation of my children it is unthinkable to meet a person in an analog way"

Francesc Orteu

The infallible method to choose our daughter's name

Your surname or mine? The dilemma of registering a child at the Civil Registry

Maria Labró

Financial infidelity

When money is a couple's secret, children also pay the price

Sebastián Marín

"My mobile phone had become a kind of religious guide to my motherhood."

Jordi Nopca

The writer Theodor Kallifatides in an archive image in Barcelona.

The cheesy bad conscience

Ignasi Aragay

Angélica Liddell at the Biennial of Thought.

Angélica Liddell: "For me tourism and fascism are the same"

Antoni Ribas Tur

Noomi Rapace at the Sitges Festival.

Noomi Rapace: "All the characters live inside me and they stay inside me"

Curial López

Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint in 'Nightborn'.

This child is a demon!

Joan Pons

Pilarin Bayés

The Parliament grants the Medal of Honor to Pilarín Bayés and Pere Portabella

L. Serra

The century-old pastry shop in Cadaqués closes

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Zucchini flower with cod brandade and rotisserie chicken oil from La barra de l'Avenir.

Contemporary Catalan cuisine in Barcelona and a porró to wash it down

Rosa Rodon

Pau Santamaria, son of the chef Santi Santamaria, sells local food products to the restaurant industry

"After watching the series 'Gènesi', I feel like making an escudella and having a wine with Ferran Adrià to talk about it all"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

picapoll

These are the 10 grape varieties that are most cultivated in Catalonia

Esther Utrilla and Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Ada Parellada's recipe for sweet potato with blue cheese

Sweet potato stuffed with blue cheese, bacon, dates and walnuts, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

Jaume Torras, photographed in one of his fields in the Llobregat agricultural park, in this case in Viladecans

Entrevista Jaume Torras:

"Soon a new controversy will begin, which will be about the quality of the potatoes that we eat"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Citroën 2CV

This is the new Citroën 2CV: electric, charming and for less than 15,000 euros

Ferran Vital

The CEO of Seat and Cupra, Markus Haupt.

Seat does not have planned to electrify any of its models and its future will depend on the path of combustion

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Volkswagen calls to defend the European industry

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

TWT General Election Polls

What do the polls for the Spanish elections of November 29 say?

The unit is me

Illa calls on Brussels to intervene in the housing market

A man identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi citizen and OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed in a meeting room at the OpenAI offices

OpenAI engineer arrested for hiding a "sophisticated" recorder in a meeting room

The Pope has been operated on for lung cancer

Katie Zacharia: from communications advisor for Trump's social network to White House spokesperson

The Romaní street, where the events took place.

Three arrested for the deadly group beating of a man in Nou Barris

The summer of 2026, the deadliest of the last decade in Spain

The pioneering technique that avoids opening the abdomen to save a vital vein in children

Workers in an office, in an archive image.

English gains ground on Spanish in job offers in Catalonia

Grimaldi opens a vertical car park and a photovoltaic plant at the port

The UGT and CCOO ask to raise the minimum wage at least 7%

Josep Maria Pou photographed during the interview.

Josep Maria Pou leaves the direction of the Teatre Romea

Estopa will bring 'La maketa' to the Olympic Stadium

Francesc Llop: "Soon someone will report a local festival and they will ban it"

Joan Solé

Joan Solé: Fear, the Barça stand? More are caused by those who wear a tie

"Damn, do you mean that your father has to do that?"

Girona loses an opportunity (and the goalkeeper) to take a bite towards the promotion spots

Felipe VI and Letizia received by a crowd of people at the doors of the Ceuta city hall this Tuesday, October 13, 2026.

The fight for the king during the campaign

Outdated comedians

The dirty game with the grandchildren

Everything is possible when you know how to observe a work of art

Why observing a painting can make you feel better

The television thriller of the moment and a lifelong pastry shop: what you cannot miss this week

What can you do this weekend? Stick dance, wine, cookies and other proposals

A moment of Amaia Montero's concert.

Amaia Montero responds with irony to the attacks on her physique

'Breaking bad' actor RJ Mitte dies at 34 years old

The rival of 'Legally Blonde', arrested for trying to open the door of a plane and biting a passenger

Science and Technology

A person painting a unique picture.

Why science needs the humanities more than ever

The stratospheric cost of not acting in the face of the ecological crisis: the figures of the European Union

The woman who made the arrival of man to the Moon possible dies