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Freefall in PISA: Spanish 15-year-old students achieve their worst level ever

Diana Silva

The PISA of the Catalonia that doesn't exist: despite the error in the sample, it only rises 5 points in mathematics

Diana Silva

Esther Niubó: "I'm not filing a petition because that would probably be the easiest thing to do."

Striking teachers are demonstrating in the center of Barcelona

Natàlia Vila | 23

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The judge investigating the entry into Ceuta points to Morocco for an "undoubted facilitation of the process"

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The government expects to spend almost 5% more next year

Agustí Sala

Who is Sahra Wagenknecht, the woman who could give the German far right its first state?

Cristina Mas

A motorcyclist is shot in Gavà, put in a car trunk and abandoned in Sabadell

ARA

The troubled history of the two minors arrested for the Manresa crime

Cesc Maideu

The Alliance candidate in Vic promoted "migration with a gender perspective" with thousands of euros

Roger Palós

Hansi Flick scores a great record for Pep Guardiola

Albert Nadal

"We can't take it anymore!": Valencia is a ticking time bomb

Toni Padilla

"Going out in a skirt and makeup to Torre Baró is a political act."

Laura Serra

Periodisme lliure i compromès

08/09/2026

The role of justice in the Ceuta crisis

Antoni Bassas analysis

Germany shows the way to the far right again

Miniature column

Weather

Last day of intense heat before a significant change in weather

Dawn in Manlleu (Osona).

Live today at 6 pm

Migration crisis in Ceuta: questions and answers

Ada Parellada's macaroni and cheese

Ada Parellada

A former NBA player causes an unexpected storm

Àlex Gozalbo

"I democratize the lobster, that's why I start the service by showing it and saying if it's male or female."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The Spanish government will ask the EU for more aid for Ceuta and Melilla: "It is the most unequal border on the planet"

Laura Santos

Isla calls for emulating Tarradellas' "government of all" in the face of the rise of the far right

Gerard Fageda

Aliança takes advantage of the AfD's victory in Saxony to boast and mocks the 1936 anti-fascist poster

Xavi Tedó

Sánchez positions himself as the "spearhead" against the far right: "We are more necessary than ever"

Núria Orriols

ERC finds it "incomprehensible" that Junts is voting against the new funding model

Why has the far right won in Germany?

Núria Vila Masclans

"Only idiots or traitors can rejoice": Alternative for Germany's victory sends shivers down the spines of Europe

Núria Sala Ventura

Merz, "shocked," says the result cannot be ignored, but rules out resigning.

Núria Vila Masclans

"Many Germans from the former GDR feel like second-class citizens."

Nazaret Romero

Thousands bid farewell to the 'butcher of Bosnia', buried with military honors

Núria Sala Ventura

Assemblea Educativa:

"Caring for children in these conditions, without resources, is negligence."

Diana Silva

The lawsuit regarding the expulsion of the singers from the Sagrada Família during the Pope's visit has been accepted for processing.

Civil Protection activates the Inuncat plan alert for heavy rains on Tuesday night and Wednesday

Twelve more deaths on the roads in the first summer of the V-16 beacon

ARA

Three people suffered minor injuries in an explosion at the Faculty of Chemistry in Tarragona

Jordi Mumbrú

Housing prices continue to soar in the second quarter

ARA

These are the first 93 apartments built by the state-owned housing company in Catalonia.

Núria Rius

Frit Ravich will allocate 115 million to a new factory and a distribution center in Catalonia

Agustí Sala

We're talking about a change in leadership and Sabadell strengthening its technology.

Alberto Prieto

Unai Sordo (CCOO): "Seat is a product that should continue to be championed"

Núria Rius

Misc

All ready for the 2026 Castells Competition

Castells Competition 2018

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

We and others, the journalistic decision-making sphere

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

Having your songs stolen to train AI: "It's frustrating and dystopian"

Now Balearic Islands

They demand to definitively ban the Fornalutx correbou

ARA Balears

"We call ACAB, but when something serious happens, we call the police."

September, time to return

Catalan theaters make history: 4 million spectators and 115 million euros in revenue

Xavier Cervantes

'50 Days Ago' premieres a new season: which popular actors are joining the series

ARA

Banco Santander lights a cultural "beacon"

Antoni Ribas Tur

Leonor is now a university student: this is how her first day went

ARA

Francesc Cano replaces Eulàlia Carbonell at the head of RAC1

ARA

Sabadell lives a fairytale and defeats Córdoba in an electrifying match (3-2)

Toni Padilla

22 million deviation: Barça's numbers revealed

Xavi Hernández Navarro

A 'little hand' from the Blaugrana to say goodbye to Mestalla

Toni Padilla

Teenagers drop out of extracurricular activities when they need them most

Olga Vallejo

Trips and excursions by Catalans within Catalonia hit rock bottom

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Homelessness is spreading to the outskirts

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

Having less sex than you should: a real problem or an imagined one?

Beti Badia

Friends that hurt

Elisenda Rosanas

Magazines

"Perfection kills, humor saves lives"

Francesc Orteu

First day of the school year.

The start of the school year also trains them for life

Cristina Gutiérrez Lestón

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

Solar eclipse of August 12

Eclipse, Murdokus and first jobs

Magda Minguet

Empordà cuisine tastes like figs

Aniol Costa-Pau

An image of a variegated scallop.

The 'zamburiñas' that we buy in preserves will be real 'zamburiñas' starting in January

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The family that puts your name laser-marked on table olives: the innovation that wants to open up a market from the Terra Alta

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Annia and Jonathan with a lobster on the terrace of the Port Viu restaurant in Torredembarra.

Eight restaurants on the Costa Daurada that deserve a visit

ARA

The musician Josep Bordes.

Entrevista Josep Bordes:

"Now I love the wine that I could not stand when I was a kid"

Elena García Dalmau

Panoramic view of a vineyard on the Danish island of Zealand.

Between fjords and vineyards: the new frontier of wine is in Denmark

Òscar Gelis

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

Sebastián Marín

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

Magda the fairy (1)

Magda the fairy (1)

Chema Peral

Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente at the start of the Iditarod sled dog race in Anchorage (Alaska)

Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente:

"My father did not make scripts nor did he watch audiences, he spoke from emotion"

Sònia Sánchez

When personal data determines the price of your purchase

Albert Cadanet Vilà

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

Workers working on the public road.

Absenteeism returns

Agustí Sala

WEB Domino companies

Women gain weight in Catalan family businesses

Agustí Sala

Eggs

Will eggs be more expensive than grapes for New Year's Eve?

Andrei Boar

Headquarters of the Treasury Tax Agency

The invisible income and the wealth tax

Alejandro Esteller Moré

Three Con Men on the Banks of the Thames: A Tale of Late Capitalist London

Marina Espasa

Calders Bookstore.

A good book against domestication

Anna Carreras Aubets

A moment of the show 'The Ultimate Player’s Handbook'

Fira Tàrrega 2026: 10 shows designed to celebrate

Núria Juanico Llumà

The writer and editor Ramon Mas, this August in Barcelona

Ramon Mas: "The wounds we carry are what make us different from others"

Jordi Nopca

Actress Susan Sarandon poses on the red carpet during the photo session for the film The Echo Chamber, which is competing at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival

Susan Sarandon denounces that they have "removed her from some films" due to her commitment to Palestine

Jordi Nopca

The graphic designer Enric Jardí.

Entrevista Enric Jardí:

"Why is there no serious literature that incorporates emojis?"

Elena García Dalmau

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

Arnau Liesa, the third from the right, with the executive of the Alt Empordà and members of the national leadership, in an archive image

Revolt in Figueres: Aliança Catalana members demand the reinstatement of the candidate fired for going out with a minor

Pilar Bernabé, official candidate for the mayoralty of Valencia for the PSPV-PSOE

Where do the Aliança Catalana candidates for the municipal elections come from?

The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens Frederik Nielsen, in Nuuk, Greenland.

The EU makes a multimillion-dollar investment in Greenland to stop Trump in his tracks

The far right sweeps in Saxony-Anhalt and could end up governing

25 years since 9/11: Chronology of the war on terror

The first prize in the 2023 New Year's Eve draw.

The Grossa of the Diada 2026: date, prizes and how to know if your number has a prize

The neighbors affected by the sinkhole in El Putxet will file a class-action lawsuit this week

Illa asks teachers for a "parenthesis" in the strikes and announces a plan to air-condition the schools

A user using the Grok app, the artificial intelligence assistant created by xAI.

Between a chatbot and the core of the business: the "paradox" of AI in companies

Mom, dad, help me to buy an apartment: is it worth it to make a donation?

Public debt dances to the sound of the CPI and interest rates

Fog in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Family melodrama in Southeast Asia

Nanni Moretti fills Venice with romanticism

Josep Manel Pugés dies at 66, a pioneering figure of punk and ska music in Barcelona

Gabriel Jesus during his first match as a Blaugrana, against Valencia

Change of guard in the forward line: Gabriel Jesus, in three keys

Stassin and the VAR water down Manolo's one hundred matches

An Europa fan, assaulted by the police for carrying an estelada

Rita Barberà in an image appeared in the episode of 'Salvados'.

A little bit of Rita Barberà, to compensate

A journalism lesson from Eduardo Inda

In search of videos with chants of "Pedro Sánchez, son of a..."

Collage of different establishment signs.

From Bodega Fermín to 'smash burger'

Desigual: a monkey at the wheel?

What can you do this weekend? Concerts, theater, wine and other proposals

King Haakon and Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra

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

The United States expels Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right activist who advocates for mass deportations

Science and Technology

Carles Lalueza, biologist and geneticist.

Carles Lalueza-Fox: "There are no 'evil genes', but rather a genetic basis and an environment"

The Chinese surgeon who was already operating with anesthesia more than 600 years ago

NASA launches telescope that can observe 100 times more space than Hubble