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Isla pledges to promote a national pact to overcome the education crisis

Gerard Fageda

The government promises to install air conditioning in all public schools and institutes within five years.

Diana Silva

Why is there an avalanche of warnings and fear surrounding artificial intelligence?

Agustí Sala

China demands more controls on AI, and Trump sees a "sick conspiracy"

Víctor Sanz Guerrero and Arnau Blanch

From 91 wind turbines to just 7: the Baix Camp and Priorat wind farm that will reduce the environmental impact, but maintain the power

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Puig buys Isdin's 50% stake in Esteve for 1.2 billion

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Russia and Ukraine agree not to attack energy infrastructure, according to Trump

Albert Sort

Barcelona is testing a change to right-turn traffic rules for cars to speed up bus traffic

Shakira: "I've spent the most important years of my life here"

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Catalan actor Peter Vives will star in Woody Allen's Madrid-based film

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Oasis will perform in Barcelona in July 2027

Biel Roura Amat

Josep Maria Pujol:

"I still think socialism would fix many things."

Laura Serra

Periodisme lliure i compromès

14/09/2026

Catalan prisons, on the brink

Antoni Bassas analysis

The Diada of the Two Adversaries

Weather

The storms and the cooling will return in the middle of the week

When science opens letters that have been sealed for centuries

Xavier Duran

"We serve the first glass of wine, but then we leave the wine on the table; we are hospitable but not servants."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

"Why don't you look each other in the eyes?"

Francesc Orteu

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland increase pressure for independence: "Westminster's time is running out"

Nazaret Romero

Israel is implementing a "project to eliminate" Palestinians in the West Bank, warns an Israeli NGO

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Spanish exchange student murdered in Mexico

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Asia's invisible weapon that could paralyze the Chinese economy

Núria Sala Ventura

Macron will visit Spain on September 29 and 30

The ANC demands Parlon's resignation over police repression against minors during the Diada

The first CIS poll after Ceuta: the PSOE drops two points and the PP stagnates

Marc Toro and Núria Orriols

Sánchez will participate in an event with Mamdani next week in New York.

Núria Orriols

The governability of the State

The Central Electoral Board accepts the Supreme Court's decision on the 'grandchildren law' and requests information from those consulted about the descendants of exiles

Political parties

Colau does not rule out a return to politics if at some point it is "especially useful"

Household consumption is keeping the growth of the Catalan economy above the European average.

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Barcelona brings unions on board in the race to accelerate the construction of public housing

Gerard Pruna

Employers' associations

Tatxo Benet (FemCAT) advocates for Catalonia to focus on sectors with higher added value

Telecommunications

BlackRock's stake in Cellnex exceeds 6%, its highest position since 2017

What will happen to your Seat car if the brand disappears?

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Marina Vilalta, the oldest shepherdess in Catalonia, dies at 99

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

More knife detectors in Barcelona after a weekend with five injured

Gerard Pruna and Cesc Maideu

Communicating through an avatar: the implant that makes it possible

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

The minor who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death in Tàrrega has been sentenced to six years in a juvenile detention center.

Prisons at 95% capacity: more semi-liberties to make room and inmates sanctioned in the infirmary

Laia Galià

Misc

The climate emergency focuses a good part of the offer of new master's degrees

Study the possibilities of sustainable energies.

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?

Building a neighborhood with books since 1998: the Barcelona bookstore with a cinematic flair

A lifetime spent searching for Daria and Mercè, murdered in Manacor in 1936

Mercè Pinya

Find the Nube de La Semana magazine

September, time to return

Five key names you should know before the Emmys

Alejandra Palés

What kind of live music do we want?

Xavier Cervantes

The best film with humans and animation since 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'

Joan Pons

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Grand Prize of Honor at the Sitges Film Festival

The BBC buys the worldwide adaptation rights to 'The Big Date'

À Punt in Spanish

À Punt premieres 'Sopa de Letras', a Madrid-based quiz show entirely in Spanish

Mapi Casabán

Football - Golden Ball

Lamine Yamal fully enters the Ballon d'Or campaign: "This year I deserve it"

Albert Nadal

Zverev, the man who didn't know he had won the US Open.

Toni Padilla

The new genius from La Masia who has captivated us

Toni Padilla

"The price of grapes is an agreement between producers and winegrowers; we cannot interfere."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Foreigners make up almost half of the Catalan population in some age groups

Cesc Maideu

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

Magazines

Via Veneto, the restaurant with an emblem: warm luxury

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

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Eggplant stuffed with tuna, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

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

A chef uses tweezers to decorate a cheese plate in a stock image.

Is high-end dining dead?

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

Rediscovering the enthusiasm for the new school year

David Altimir Sans

The small family, the medium one and the big one

The small family, the medium one and the big one

Mar Domènech

The popular culture groups from the eyes of the boys and girls who participate in popular culture groups: giants, human tower builders, stick dancers.

The casteller father and the enxaneta daughter: let's make a team as a family!

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

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

Laura Serra

A recent portrait of the writer Andrea Abreu

Is it necessary to read a story that does not interpellate us, even if it is well written?

M. Àngels Cabré

The writer Caterina Albert.

Caterina, Doris and the courage

Sílvia Soler

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

The Israeli Minister of Culture intends to revoke the nationality of the directors of the documentary 'Naza'

L.S.

Sandra Bruna celebrates the 25th anniversary of her literary agency

"There is a difference of degree between being an author and a writer"

Jordi Nopca

Paco Méndez. Mexico City, 1982.

"El Bulli continues open"

Elena García Dalmau

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

Pilar Gómez Rodríguez / La Maleta de Portbou

A scene of the U.S. Open tennis at Flushing Meadows, New York, United States.

An Open too open

Mònica Planas Callol

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

A former secretary of state and a vice-president of Barça are among the most notable appointments.

Leandre Ibar Penaba

ECB President Christine Lagarde at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt this Thursday.

How does the interest rate increase to 2.5% affect us?

Andrei Boar

Publication on the official account of the Danone subsidiary in North America where consumers are encouraged to leave opinions about the discontinued product.

Danone says goodbye to the coffee-flavored yogurt that drives Americans crazy

Albert Cadanet Vilà

The CEO of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech Marta P. Estarellas in an image for the supplement Companies in Barcelona.

Marta P. Estarellas:

"AI has greatly justified the existence of quantum computing"

Alberto Prieto

Apartments under construction in Barcelona

A new real estate crisis?

Oriol Aspachs

Meritxell Falgueras, communicator and sommelier.

"More than saving money, I think I will already earn it"

Júlia Riera Rovira

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

ERC president Oriol Junqueras at a press conference on Monday

Esquerra goes to exam this autumn

Sonia Moreno: "Behind the Ceuta crisis there is political intentionality"

Salvador Illa has a problem

The leader of the Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, at the party's election night follow-up party at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, in the center of Stockholm.

The left leads a heart-stopping count in Sweden

Putin martyrizes the Ukrainians and blames Zelensky for it: “He has opened Pandora’s box”

A Russian drone attacks a Ukrainian passenger train two kilometers from the border of Poland

High school students in class in an archive photo.

The success of a London school... and of the English system as a whole

From the iPhone 6 to the infinite scroll of TikTok: two reading courses lost in 10 years

Catalan Moroccans speak: "There is no opportunity there"

Volker Türk.

The UN calls on governments and companies to "govern" AI

Open Cosmos raises 300 million from investors, including the ICF

Marta Serra-Garcia: "The use of ChatGPT is not correlated with trust in ChatGPT"

A scene from 'Kurios' by Cirque du Soleil.

Yes, the Cirque du Soleil can still surprise

A playful text by Sergi Belbel and two great performers: nothing else is needed

Ronnie Wood offers a splendid rock'n'roll concert in Barcelona

Maica García, celebrating the Olympic gold

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

Mallorca makes Sabadell touch feet to the ground (2-0)

The day of glory of Enric Mas, the Mallorcan who has gone from being "a loser" to winning the Vuelta

Fernando Garrido, to 'Salvados'.

Victim and terrorist, face to face

The day that AI became the new villain of the movie

Lobato wins the race to see who is the biggest suck-up to Madrid

Algorithms are designed to predict what will keep us in front of the screen for longer

And if AI agrees with us too much?

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

Princess Leonor upon arriving this Monday at the Getafe Campus of the Charles III University where she will study the degree in Political Science

Elionor, one more student?

Lady Gaga has been a mother in secret

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

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