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Feijóo tasks Albiol with leading the anti-employment law in the State: "On November 29th we must choose between Colau and him"

Xavi Tedó

David Fernández:

"Feijóo has two political rivals, one is Sánchez and the other is Ayuso."

Andrea Zamorano

Rufián and Montero will make their debut together in Barcelona

Paris experiences renewed unrest as Macron calls for de-escalation

Víctor Sanz Guerrero

"They tell us everything is under control, but it's not true": unease in Saudi Arabia over Houthi attacks

Catherine Carey Arribas

Fear, ignorance, and resentment: the Molotov cocktail that wants to set our society ablaze

Jordi Nopca

What is being done to give Europe its own AI?

Alberto Prieto

The risk of heavy rain returns to eleven regions this Monday

Gemma Garrido Granger

Companies that seem incompatible at first glance, but that change lives.

Mònica Bernabé

Growing up without family in a country that is not your own: "You'll suffer more than in Morocco"

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

Catalan cycling clothing manufacturers stand up to industry giants

Albert Cadanet Vilà

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Content in catalan

Two cases of men forcibly abducted early this morning in Catalonia are under investigation

Cesc Maideu

First Women's Division

Barça clashes again with their bogey team (amid controversy)

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Hansi Flick runs out of brakes before PSG and Madrid

Xavi Hernández Navarro

Second Division

The retake of a controversial penalty clips Sabadell's wings

Toni Padilla

Interview Matilde Ferrer:

"After Hiroshima the oleander bloomed; a flower is hope"

Elena García Dalmau

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Weather

The week will start with more general and abundant rain

The Ter river in Roda de Ter (Osona).

Misc

Vella and Joves, face to face again: Valls is already waiting for Santa Ursula

4d10fm of the Colla Vella last year for Santa Úrsula and the 2d9f of the Colla Joves also for Santa Úrsula in Valls last year.

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

"There are many people in Madrid who also want to turn the page on the Process"

Núria Orriols

Jonathan, the 194-year-old tortoise who can help us live longer

Sònia Sánchez

Sofia Vergara, accused by her ex of emotionally abandoning him during his seven years of illness

Joan Callarissa

"People went crazy": 25 years of the show that turned television upside down

Alejandra Palés

We threw stale bread in the trash but bought breadcrumbs

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A €73 million "new home" to save heritage that doesn't fit in museums

Sílvia Marimon

Three years of a divorce that could doom the left

Andrea Zamorano

The UAB has not authorized Vito Quiles' talk on campus and says the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) will prevent his entry.

Sánchez calls for mobilization at a rally turned into a declaration of love for Begoña Gómez

Xavi Tedó and Cesc Maideu

Nogueras criticizes the "servility" in Madrid and defends Junts as the only party "of strictly Catalan obedience"

The day Gabriel Rufián no longer seems so likeable in Madrid

David Miró

How has the aid Ukraine receives changed since Trump came to power?

Núria Vila Masclans

Ukraine launches one of the largest drone attacks of the war against St. Petersburg

ARA

Roberto Saviano:

"Meloni has been very clever: she makes people believe she's fighting the mafia, but she's not doing anything."

Soraya Melguizo

"Many people are afraid to go vote": the fear of a possible ICE deployment in the US elections

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The last churches of Kramatorsk

Fran Richart

Artificial intelligence will change taxes

Agustí Sala

The rising cost of energy puts the continuity of the industry at risk, warns Foment.

ARA

France is suffering from public debt

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Wages have a greater impact on the economy, but workers don't notice it. Why?

Agustí Sala

The foundation that gives a second life to used clothing

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

"I was at the point of thinking about how to die and make it look like an accident."

Laia Galià

Around sixty complaints of fraud involving Oques Grasses tickets

The murder of Helena Jubany will be tried 25 years later

Cesc Maideu

Pressure on the City Council to unblock the steps of the Sagrada Familia

Gerard Pruna

Vella i Joves, face to face again: Valls is already waiting for Santa Úrsula

Júlia Camprubí Díez

Antoni Bassas analysis

With what desire will Rufián do the campaign now?

Miniature column

Hit the ceiling

The problem of housing rentals

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

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?

Final stretch for the arrival of a 'low cost' furniture chain in a historic building in Barcelona

"Young people no longer want to be perfect workers"

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

Josep Genovard

An October of shifting borders

Perejaume designs the poster for the 150th anniversary of the Excursionist Center of Catalonia

ARA

Why do authors change publishers? Seven recent controversial cases

Jordi Nopca

Interview Marc Sarrats:

"Try not to be so miserable as to settle for the malice of mere survival."

Àlex Gutiérrez

The fantastic and impressive pathos of La Zaranda

Santi Fondevila

I was moved to tears by what Judit Neddermann and the Fortuny Trio did.

Laura Serra

A magical Barça rewrites history with one rout after another

Toni Padilla

Second Division

Gifts from Andorra bring Girona to life

Jordi Bofill

Football - La Liga

Apunts en calent |

Hansi Flick's mastery with Lamine Yamal

Albert Nadal

Basketball - Endesa League

Sekulic will soon learn where Badalona is: ARA's Instant Replay

Àlex Gozalbo

LeBron James' latest frivolity divides the NBA

Àlex Gozalbo

Sydney Schertenleib, the rising star who delights Lamine Yamal

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

What happened to 'topless'?

Sílvia Rosés

Nine reasons to go for a walk at 6 a.m. this summer (and no, you don't have to do it every day)

Natàlia Costa

Silicon Valley executives are keeping their children away from social media

David Streitfeld / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

Catalonia imports 80% of the wood it consumes

Núria Rius

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

Dani Colmena

Magazines

Stories of love, tradition and great talent: postcards from ARA readers

Vanesa Carrasquilla Parera

Russell Brand, the same cocky narcissist as always

Mònica Planas Callol

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

May the Maldà Cinema last forever

Toni Vall

A cyclist.

Catalan cycling clothing manufacturers hold their own against the industry giants

Albert Cadanet Vilà

Inundacions in Alcanar

Adaptation to climate change, a priority for the COP

Enoch Ntsiful, François Cohen i Patrick Fahr

EUREKA Pritt WEB

The lipstick that inspired the first glue stick in the world

Marc Amat

The resurgence of Nokia thanks to AI

Òscar Gelis

Mr. Ernesto Anastasio Pascual

The sailor who founded Trasmediterránea

David Valero-Carreras

"Requesting a reduction in working hours to care for children shouldn't be frowned upon."

Mar Domènech

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Content in catalan

Helena Escobar

Helena Escobar 'La Bleda':

"It is necessary for children to have a model, even if only to break it when they become teenagers"

Francesc Orteu

Sandra Bruna as a child

Sandra Bruna: "What seems like it can only happen in villages, before also happened in Barcelona"

Bea Cabezas

Gabriel Ginebra photographed for the interview with ARA

Gabriel Ginebra:

Gabriel Ginebra: "Asking for a reduction in working hours to take care of children should not be frowned upon"

Mar Domènech

School zone sign in Sweden.

This is not Sweden (or is it!)

Pau Gaitán

Participants in a Barcelona Dibuixa workshop from a previous edition

Cinema, drawings and poetry: what to do with children this week

Mar Domènech

Mexico, through Companys' widow: "His name will be a symbol in the history of democracy"

Sílvia Marimon

They are exercises to work on attention, silence, concentration, memory and emotional management.

We have brought emotion seminars into the institutes but we have driven books out of them

Leticia Asenjo

The Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych.

Sofia Andrukhóvitx:

"With the war you feel a visceral need for connection with your land and with your people"

Sílvia Marimon

Judit Carrera, director of the CCCB.

Judit Carrera, directora del CCCB:

It is not incompatible to work to attract local public and tourists

Laura Casserres Capdevila

The actor Sergi Torrecillas in the show 'Una petita distorsió'.

The masculinity of the winners

Santi Fondevila

An image from the movie 'Sanguine'.

The public and the critics save the furniture of a desolate Sitges awards list

Xavi Serra

"Being the first female president of the Lyceum Circle is a great responsibility."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Panellets

Terrifying panellets, the recipe of Ada Parellada

Ada Parellada

The wineries that participated in the V Meeting of Effervescent Producers at Can Feru.

The ancestrals, the unknown face of the Penedès bubble revolution

Jordi Bes Lozano

Jayzer, Beta, Guillem, Ahmad and Antoni with a puff pastry cake with figs and mascarpone

Debut vindicates from l’Hospitalet a Catalan cuisine without labels

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

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

Mercè Cabrisas, with a box of corks in front of her pastry shop

The historic pastry shop of Cadaqués closes after one hundred years

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Peugeot E T16

Peugeot E-T16, an electric rocket disguised as an eighties car

Ferran Vital

Tesla Roadster

Tesla Roadster: the first flying car

Ferran Vital

Seat in Martorell. Celia Atset

Agreement of France and Germany to keep combustion cars in Europe beyond 2035

Núria Sala Ventura and Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

The mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, in a recent image

The PP chooses Albiol as an antidote to Vox on 11-29

Sánchez and the implausible miracles

The Broad Front promises 'No more dramas' after the break with Podemos

A car burning in the Place de la République during the protests in Paris.

France ignites against the cost of living: Are the 'yellow vests' returning?

The aggression against a European delegation in the West Bank escalates the attacks by Israeli settlers

Putin's manual: this is how he has managed for Trump to serve the interests of Russia

Search tasks for the missing woman.

They are looking for a woman who has fallen into the stream in Cabrera de Mar in the middle of the storm

Unwanted loneliness

Catalonia will offer lung cancer screenings to smokers who are over 60 years old

Image of the conference, with Carla Turró, Manel Delgado, Carme Trilla and Josep Oliver.

Housing, between morality and pragmatism

One year of Sabadell's 'no' to BBVA: from failed takeover bid to happy ending

Pimec will enter CES with Ferran Bel as representative

'Josep Aparici, councilor of Barcelona' by Joan Grau Carbonell

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

Planeta Prize for Isabel Allende, the best-selling author of Hispanic literature

Mircea Cartarescu: "I wanted to enter into the forbidden room of sexuality"

Leandro Cabrera, defending Simeone during the match between Espanyol and Atletico

Espanyol does not have enough with Fortuño's saves

Barça finds the Palau's fuses late

Raphinha, a difficult mission (also for Flick)

Pedro Sánchez with Begoña Gomez on the stage of Fuenlabrada

The kiss of Sanchez that everything it can

Fox News attacks Trump's spokesperson

The resignation as a gesticulatory act

The pastry chef, behind the counter where he serves the customers who order San Juan cocas from him

An authentic Italian restaurant and the best croissant in the State: what you cannot miss this week

How geology has conditioned the history of humanity

What light do we want in our life?

Madonna, in an image she shared alongside the announcement of her new album

Madonna discovers a venue in the Raval where "the best flamenco" is done

Hilary Swank announces that she is pregnant at 52 years old

Amaia Montero responds with irony to the attacks on her physique

Science and Technology

Robert Proctor photographed by the ARA.

Robert Proctor: "The tobacco industry has financed with hundreds of millions of dollars at least 25 Nobel prizes"

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