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The European Public Prosecutor's Office investigates a possible fraud in high-speed works after the Urda accident

Núria Rius and Natàlia Vila

Incident in Rodalies

R4 line cut between Gelida and Sant Sadurní due to a fire on a freight train

This is what a women's prison in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is like

Madina Ayar

Bomb threats continue on several planes in Europe

Nazaret Romero González

The withdrawal of oil is activated for the first time to prevent the price from collapsing

Núria Rius

An ICE to Europe? The Belgian police will be able to enter homes to search for illegal immigrants

Núria Sala Ventura

They send to Barcelona a priest related to a case of sexual abuse of a migrant

ARA Balears

"It is not a monument, it is a failure": the harsh criticism of 'The New Yorker' to 'The black ball'

Paula Pujol

Meghan Markle's father, arrested for child pornography

Alejandra Palés

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Content in Catalan

The housing encampment leaves Plaça de Catalunya without Christmas lights

ARA

Digits and gadgets

Your television spies on you: what you can do to avoid it

Albert Cuesta

"I won't undress, not even dead, not even in front of the gynecologist"

Laura Serra

"I am worried about the exodus from the public school to the charter school"

Carla Turró

Periodisme lliure i compromès

11/06/2025

The shadows of the Koldo case

Antoni Bassas analysis

Europe lives under threat and the campaign is not aware of it

Miniature column

Weather

Weekend under the indirect effects of the storm ‘Bruna’

Recent image of a sunset with clouds in Palamós, in the Baix Empordà.

Elections

Tell us what you think and we will tell you which vote fits you best

NOW Barça

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From piloting the Barça plane to arriving running at Everest

Toni Padilla

The waiter from the Gothic Quarter who has been at the same bar for 54 years and does not want to retire so he can continue serving fried little fish

Toni Padilla

Keira Knightley: "I have a very vivid memory of having been chased"

Alexis Soloski / New York Times

Content in Catalan

A house that is forest

Cristina Ros

The truck driver's son who has made Hansi Flick fall in love

Albert Nadal

Owl or hawk: the duel to occupy the ECB presidency nest

Núria Sala Ventura

The Catalan economy grows by 2.9% during the third quarter

Leandre Ibar Penaba and Alberto Prieto

"20 years ago there was almost no local technology sector and now there is"

Alberto Prieto

The Catalan employers' associations make their letters to the Three Wise Men for November 29th

Alberto Prieto and Núria Rius

Labor Inspection opens a file on the Department of Culture after detecting more than 200 false interns

ARA

The judge rejects indicting Zapatero for embezzlement for the Saudi Arabia jewels

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Feijóo chooses Catalonia and Albiol for the start of the 29-N campaign

Andrea Zamorano

Only one out of every four of the main Catalan candidates has not held a public office

Sebastián Marín

Spanish police launch an operation against the neo-Nazi group National Nucleus

Sebastián Marín

These will be the minimum services during the strike of November 11th

ARA

"There is a strong indication that Russia would be behind the bomb threats to planes in Europe"

Núria Vila Masclans

Putin intensifies the hunt for Russian communists

Albert Sort

Two dead, a minor, and 16 injured in a bus accident in the east of France

The electoral defeat makes loyalty to Trump within the government rethink

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The result of the 'midterms' threatens Israel's umbilical cord

Cristina Mas

Brussels warns that the TikTok algorithm can fuel mental health disorders

Núria Sala Ventura

The buses that Catalonia would need to be able to carry everyone seated

Natàlia Vila

All the Bicing bicycles in Barcelona will be electric next summer

Diana Silva

Police and judiciary call in Barcelona for a common international front against the mafias

Cesc Maideu

Probation for the two minors arrested in Lleida for bullying

Misc

Falling in love with an AI and illegal sodomy

Francoist marriage advice and the savior complex

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

Hit the ceiling

The problem of housing rental

Premium Club

Did you know that the first "building" by Gaudí that is preserved is some public toilets?

Reader's advocate

Jokes bring water

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

The person from Sant Just who photographed Mick Jagger upon landing at El Prat half a century ago: "Now it would be unthinkable"

“One day testing we said: what would happen if we mixed the redoblat singing of Ibiza with Daft Punk?”

Vicent Tur

In November, we think about the present from dissent

The landscape is us

“I have never wanted to distance myself from my father”

Xavi Serra

The Planeta Group buys 'Tintin'

Laura Serra

The house where Macià prepared the liberation of Catalonia a hundred years ago opens as a cultural space

Sílvia Marimon

The illusion of selling a painting to someone who has fallen in love with it

Toni Vall

'Ocarina of time', a timeless masterpiece that is reborn for a new generation

Eduard Forroll

Changes to the Nit de les Lletres Catalanes: what are the new awards and how is the endowment of some prizes growing

Jordi Nopca

The Empordà photographer who turns ephemeral instants into poetry

Aniol Costa-Pau

The remedy to Espanyol's ills was at home

Marc Mosull

Basketball - Euroleague

Sekulic invents an unexpected hero

Àlex Gozalbo

Sabadell will wear a special shirt against Real Sociedad B

In Japan, 'crying houses' are triumphing: early morning refuges for mothers who can no longer take it anymore

Josep Solano

Maybe you are an alcoholic and you do not know it

Mònica Bernabé

Apartments without a certificate of occupancy for up to €760,000 in Barcelona

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Interview Martin Baron:

“I renounced the bulletproof glass because they were not planning to put it for the whole newsroom”

Àlex Gutiérrez

This is how parties try to reach young people through pseudo-media on social networks

Laura Tapiolas Fàbregas i Albert Aragonès Martorell

Magazines

The secrets of the La Plata bar and of Pepe, the most loyal waiter in Barcelona

Toni Padilla

Camila, Cristian, Albert, Gerald, Juan Pablo and Eduardo, from the restaurant Can Fisher, with a senyoret rice in front of the restaurant's terrace at Bogatell beach.

The day that a soupy lobster rice made the sun come out on the Barcelona coast

Adrià Albets , Ivan Díez and Carles Domènech

The chef Bittor Arginzoniz, owner of El Asador Etxebarri, and the sommelier Mohamed Benabdallah, with the award that accredits them as the best restaurant in the world of 2026.

The fire and the embers of Asador Etxebarri catapult it as the best restaurant in the world

Rosa Rodon

Quim Vila, owner of Vila Viniteca; Jaime Campos, director of AgroBank at CaixaBank; Ferran Centelles; Ferran Adrià; and Ramon Soler, commercial director of CaixaBank in Barcelona.

Ferran Adrià puts a final point to the most important encyclopedia in the world of wine

Rosa Rodon

The chef Albert Adrià, photographed with the team of the restaurant Enigma, as they welcome the diners who enter it

Entrevista Albert Adrià:

"The restaurants in which the ticket is situated between 90 and 150 euros have little profit margin"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Miquel Pardo at the Melós restaurant, in the Eixample of Barcelona.

The best cook of the year is Miquel Pardo, from the restaurants CruiX and Melós of Barcelona

Rosa Rodon

The illusion of selling a painting to someone who has fallen in love with it

Toni Vall

Pryca.

What became of Pryca? That is how Carrefour, the supermarket giant, was born

Marc Amat

Telefonica, owner of O2, may merge with Virgin Media.

Virgin Media O2, a subsidiary of Telefónica in the United Kingdom, against the ropes due to debts of more than €25 billion

Quim Aranda

The British financier and merchant Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel in a period portrait.

The German businessman who won the favor of the King of England

David Valero-Carreras

A bank office in an archive image.

The rise of remunerated accounts

Andrei Boar

The Consorci de la Zona Franca gains influence in Ibero-America

Alberto Prieto

A house that is forest

Cristina Ros

Fashion show of mannequins from the great haute couture houses of Barcelona in Montjuïc, 1955.

The dresses of the designer who dressed Sara Montiel, Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla

Elena García Dalmau

Zoe Bonafonte during the photo session with Xavier Bertral, for the cover of the Sunday supplement of the ARA newspaper

Without my therapist I do not know how I would have transitioned through the success of 'El 47'

Mar Cortés

The graves found in Pień, the bodies of which present "anti-vampiric" anomalies.

The mysterious case of the vampire of Poland: “She was perceived as a demonic being”

Iker Mons

Manel Mahdouani: the last tattoo artist of the Imazighen of Tunisia.

The last Amazigh tattooist of Tunisia

Sergi Llanas

Bet Miralta during a performance of the show 'Circus, Wonders and Varieties', by the company Escarlata Circus, in 1987.

"Now there are many more restrictions and prohibitions than before"

Núria Juanico Llumà

Isabel Allende: "Old age does not make you wiser, it makes you more of what you already are; if you are a bitch you will be more so"

Laura Serra

Two women running with a bucket of water to help put out a forest fire in Carballeda de Avia (Ourense), August 17, 2025.

Photos against the abuse and the irresponsibility of power

Xavier Cervantes

The writer Margarita García Robayo photographed in Barcelona.

Herralde Prize for the sharp and irreverent literature of Margarita García Robayo

Núria Juanico Llumà

An image from the documentary 'George Michael - The Faith tour'.

When the camera captures the forging of a pop star

Gerard Casau

Raphaël Pichon conducting the Ensemble Pygmalion at the Palau de la Música.

Touching the sky at the Palau

Jaume Radigales

The Italian writer Roberto Saviano

The great love of Roberto Saviano

Ignasi Aragay

Bicycles against scooters

Xavier Gual

A teacher records content.

Between the pedagogical vocation and the viral content: this is what 'influencer' teachers are like

Elisenda Rosanas

Photo Call from a previous edition of My First Film Festival

Family cinema, wardrobe change and small mammals: plans with children for this week

Mar Domènech

School camps in an archive image

Families make a move for school camps: 400 AFAs demand "concrete measures" from the Government

Jaume Mollfulleda

Àlex Sastre watching birds.

Àlex Sastre Prieto:

"I thank my mother that she stopped my feet when it was time"

Francesc Orteu

Grieving process of a girl.

"Will you also die?": the keys to managing grief in childhood

Cristina Gutiérrez Lestón

Electric car

Electric car sales in Catalonia grow by 100%

Ferran Vital

Aston Martin Valhalla Spider

Aston Martin Valhalla Spider, the expensive convertible full of excesses that all the rich want to buy

Ferran Vital

The Italian Mercedes driver, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, celebrates with his country's flag the victory at the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, held on the Monte Carlo street circuit.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli: a champion destined to revolutionize F1 from the day of his baptism

Toni Padilla

Avinguda Maria Cristina in Barcelona hosts the Junts pel Sí rally.

What will the abstentionist independentist do?

The transversal axis of the extreme right: from the Carlist heritage to xenophobia

Sánchez, on the insults of Milei: "Respect in politics seems fundamental to me"

The billionaire Elon Musk, last September at an event at the White House.

The stock market fall of tech companies makes Musk lose more than €27 billion

General strike in France: massive mobilizations against the increase in the cost of living

Eisenkot gains options to receive the mandate to form a government and oust Netanyahu

In ancient Greece it was believed that the uterus kept changing its place and caused hysteria in women.

Prejudices in medicine continue to condition the health of women

Pressure on Collboni to buy at-risk blocks in Barcelona multiplies

Fourteen arrested for a student protest in Manresa days before the Blocus looting

Ebro plant in the Barcelona Free Trade Zone

Ebro signs a financing agreement of up to 200 million euros

Civil society is pushing again so that the reform of the administration opens its way in Catalonia

Is your salary high or low? Discover how many people earn more and less than you

Maria Reva, during the visit to Barcelona to present 'The Last Trace'

"If you look for a mail-order bride in Eastern Europe, you might get a surprise"

Where will the authors sign for Sant Jordi?

What can you do this weekend? Horrorland, Cardoterror and other terrifying plans

FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta greets Mateu Alemany during the league match against Atletico Madrid at Camp Nou.

Hugs in the VIP box and tension in the stands

José Antonio Gallardo: the sad precedent that the death of Jesús de Miguel has evoked

How to act in front of a 'commotio cordis', the probable cause of the death of Jesús de Miguel

A promotional image of The Seventh.

The Seventh, an ideological hamster wheel

Catalan magazines claim their space in front of the algorithm at the Night of Catalan Magazines and Press

El Gran Wyoming retires and Gonzo will present 'El intermedio'

‘Book of preparing to eat’, or the art of good cooking with medieval eyes The 7 Portes restaurant, in Barcelona, publishes its second book on the recovery of ancient Catalan cuisine, after ‘The book of Sent Soví’ If you want to prepare asparagus ‘medieval style’ The prologue of the medieval volume takes care of specifying what exactly the ‘Book of preparing’ was

A classic restaurant and an essential group of the Catalan music scene: what you cannot miss this week

An immersive journey to walk among real-size dinosaurs

Laura Ribó: Behind a disgruntled worker there is usually a lack of recognition

Meghan Markle's father reveals the family miseries

Meghan Markle's father, arrested for child pornography

Heidi Klum dresses up as a shocking amputated hand

The accusations of pedophilia against Meghan Markle's father, a bombshell in the midst of the Sussexes' royal reconciliation

Science and Technology

A total solar eclipse from Mazatlán, Mexico, on April 8, 2024.

The best places to enjoy the eclipse: check how it will look from your municipality

The impact of the doctorate on the mental health of researchers

Five new wolf cubs are born in Catalonia