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Waters in Catalonia: Man dies after being swept away by a stream in Garraf

Subway disruptions and train speed limits due to the storm

Trump threatens to "cut off trade relations" with the EU if it partners with Canada

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Von der Leyen swears love to the man of the moment in Europe

Francesc Millan

"Some people want us to perform miracles": Puente warns of the lack of alternatives at the Ceuta port camp

Marc Toro

There is now a new dependency law: what changes from now on?

N.R.M

"Perhaps inclusive education needs to be reoriented, but not reduced."

Diana Silva

"When we emigrated to Tossa, it seemed as if I had never left the village."

Gerard Fageda

The most exuberant Barça dances in the rain

Toni Padilla

Football - La Liga

That's how it should be: the immediate aftermath of Barça-Racing

Albert Nadal

Mbappé explains after the controversy with Ceuta: "I didn't want to prioritize suffering"

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Jordi Basté denounces censorship by TV3 and the television station opens an internal investigation

Alejandra Palés

The Imserso website goes into maintenance on the day reservations open in Catalonia

A 24-year-old woman creates a system to report Renfe and Adif delays more quickly

Natàlia Vila

Interview Jaël-Sakura Bestué:

"I don't want to be a public figure. I want to be a doctor, ultimately."

Àlex Gutiérrez

Periodisme lliure i compromès

17/09/2026

It is necessary to toughen the penalties for carrying illegal weapons

Antoni Bassas analysis

4 national police officers on trial for torture 9 years after the 1-O

Miniature column

Weather

Goodbye to the downpours today, but remains of some showers and a clear cooling down

Image of the lightning strike tonight in Parets del Vallès.

"I feel like expired yogurt"

Jordi Nopca

"I've been called a prostitute for being a free woman who defends her own language."

Antoni Ribas Tur

"Who has benefited from literature becoming mere entertainment?"

Sílvia Marimon

"When I scored the goal at the Camp Nou I thought: that's incredible."

Albert Nadal

“We made a mistake by not allowing Jennifer Lawrence to be asked questions about Gaza.”

Xavi Serra

Doubling prison sentences for carrying weapons is on the table at Moncloa and the Generalitat.

Núria Orriols and Cesc Maideu

"Lobbyists must be the only sector that wants to be regulated, and yet it never happens."

Núria Orriols

Spain will continue without regulating lobbyists

Núria Rius

Salvador Illa: "Can anyone imagine a Catalonia without Jordi Évole or Estopa?"

Gerard Fageda

Turkey cracks down on the LGBTI community with dozens arrested

Cristina Mas

Israel and Morocco strengthen ties and will open embassies

The Fed raises interest rates and its chairman faces a clash with Trump

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The US admits for the first time to having deployed weapons in outer space

Francesca Regalado (The New York Times)

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The United States will send Israel one of the largest shipments of ammunition in recent years

ARA

Brussels opens the door to public procurement for SMEs

Agustí Sala

Grifols signs an agreement to cover part of its electricity consumption in the State with renewables

Transport companies are requesting direct aid to cover fuel costs.

ARA

Can Brussels ban children under 13 from accessing social media?

Núria Sala Ventura

A basketball coach from Joventut Badalona has been arrested for a sexual offense against a minor.

Violència sexual

A minor has been arrested for alleged sexual assault of a girl in Sant Joan de les Abadesses.

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Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

Misc

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

Study the possibilities of sustainable energies.

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?

L'Hospitalet wants to boast about being part of the Camino de Santiago

From blood-stained towels to a Satisfyer on the pillow: 28 years cleaning rooms in Magaluf

Marcos Torío

Find the Nube de La Semana magazine

September, time to return

Los Javis: the film that made them famous almost separated them

Kyle Buchanan / The New York Times

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A D-Day drowned out by violin and piano music

Miquel Escudero

A fast-paced, tense, and fun horror roller coaster

Víctor Navarro Remesal

Rosalía, nominated for seven Latin Grammys

Xavi Serra

Tito Ramoneda: "In a truly frightening time, jazz unites us"

Biel Roura Amat

What can you do this weekend? Art, rice, beer, and other suggestions

ARA

What's behind the "We are all mackerel" campaign?

Arnau Blanch

The 20-year-old Asturian woman who stole the show at the World Cup goes viral for her Catalan

Àlex Gozalbo

This is how Alianza acts in plenary sessions where it does not have councilors

Xavi Tedó

School cafeterias: a puzzle of 16 different menus

Bàrbara Julbe

"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

Magazines

Not a day at home

The gastronomic benchmark of Cerdanya looks to the future with strength and talent

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

From left to right: Laura, Joan Carles, Joan, Lucía and Cristina, from Bar Joan at the Santa Caterina Market.

The unbeatable market bar that has been feeding a whole neighborhood for more than 40 years

Rosa Rodon

Neither do they cause cholesterol nor do they fatten: peanuts help to maintain cardiovascular health

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A terrace in Barceloneta

Half a croquette and half a glass of wine: the solution to be able to keep eating out

Rosa Rodon

Ada Parellada prepares a zucchini omelet

Zucchini and goat cheese omelette, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

Diego Alías Borjas, chef of the restaurant Ca l'Amador

Entrevista Diego Alías:

"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

Siblings with a large age gap: how to build a relationship?

Esther Escolán

TheBerta OfTheVillage

Books in Catalan, movie premieres and looks at the sky: what to do with children this week

Mar Domènech

The writer and scientific popularizer Sònia Fernández-Vidal

Sònia Fernández-Vidal:

"Many anti-vaxxers were teenagers, and now the time has come for the flat-earthers"

Sergi Llanas

A family geolocates their underage daughter using the Google application installed on her mobile phone

The dangers of geolocating children

Paula Mateu

Marta Marco

"Why do you not look at each other in the eyes?"

Francesc Orteu

The small family, the medium one and the big one

The small family, the medium one and the big one

Mar Domènech

Sebastià Alzamora, National Poetry Prize

Núria Juanico Llumà and Jordi Nopca

'Non concerto', the inaugural show of the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic 2026.

Bewilderment and daring at the Live Music Market

Xavier Cervantes

The company of 'Doing 'The beautiful Helen' this Tuesday morning in Gràcia.

"Instead of thinking about having children I am locked up for three weeks living at the Lliure"

Núria Juanico Llumà

Family photo at the presentation of the theatre day 'Take me to the theatre'.

Porta’m al Teatre is born, the family theatre day

Biel Roura Amat

The writers Lluís Llort and Lluís Riera

"Why do we children end up doing what we hate most about our parents?"

Jordi Nopca

The writer Mary Beard this week in Madrid.

In defense of Western civilization

Ignasi Aragay

Unequal and Elon Musk's disobedient daughter

Sílvia Rosés

A person rests next to the beach, in an archive image

Why do we stop being ourselves in September?

Sílvia Rosés

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

An Open too open

Mònica Planas Callol

The writer Laura Freixas.

"I have always placed myself on the left with doubts and criticisms, but on the left"

Pilar Gómez Rodríguez / La Maleta de Portbou

Magda the fairy (2)

Magda the fairy (2)

Chema Peral

A view of the house.

From old workshop to home studio

Cristina Ros

It's still exciting to receive a trophy or a medal

Toni Vall

EUREKA Moleskine WEB

How to turn a notebook into a pop icon: the Moleskine business

Marc Amat

William Andrew Clark Sr.

The copper magnate who became rich thanks to the gold seekers

David Valero-Carreras

Image of the beach of Lloret de Mar, one of those that are in this municipality of the Costa Brava, where the cycle of meetings on tourism will be closed.

A former secretary of state and a vice president of Barça, the most notable appointments of the week

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 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

Police control and security deployment at the Tarajal border crossing in Ceuta in an archive image.

The National Court paralyzes the installation of the migrant camp at the port of Ceuta

Sánchez points to Ceuta for the situation of the minors: "Let them ask Vivas"

Joan Carretero: the first former minister to announce the vote for Aliança Catalana

Civil Protection teams working at the collapsed building.

At least 21 dead and 45 injured in the collapse of a block of flats in Gaza

Von der Leyen announces a security alliance of the EU with Canada, the United Kingdom and Ukraine

Former president of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, declared guilty of war crimes

Users of Gavà station waiting for one of the three trains that pass every hour on the R2 Sur

Delays at Renfe: six copper thefts in ten days at the Estació de França

Classes suspended this Wednesday in five regions due to intense rain

Spain, the third OECD country where most repeat a grade

Miguel Tiana, general director of Cofides; Miquel Sàmper, minister of Business and Labor; and Andrés Martín, CEO and founder of Elian.

The State enters with 40 M€ into the capital of Elian through Cofides

The shielding of the electricity grid leads the government to shoot investment up by 30%

Alsina Group absorbs its subsidiary Alisan and plans acquisitions in Europe

The black ball

'The black ball', by the Javis, will represent Spain at the Oscars

Neither all roads went to Rome nor were they so straight

Ed Sheeran is left without opening acts in the USA after expelling Macklemore for his pro-Palestinian comments

Mbappe and Vinicius hiding the support shirt for Ceuta

Vinícius and Mbappé split Madridism even more over a support shirt for Ceuta

The tribute to a war criminal that scandalizes European football

45 minutes are not enough for Espanyol

The new set, with robotic cameras and mobile totems

One year later, the new 'Telenotícies' are already old

Francesc Cano replaces Eulàlia Carbonell at the head of RAC1

Mbappé and Vinícius, Sanchistas and traitors to the fatherland

Not everything you hear is true: the brain also needs time to think

The best dresses of the 2026 Emmys: from Zendaya's sexy design to Megan Stalter's outlandish costume

And if AI agrees with us too much?

Princess Leonor begins her studies at the Carlos III University of Madrid, on September 7, 2026

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

Shakira: "Here I have spent the most important years of my life"

The Catalan Peter Vives will star in Woody Allen's Madrid film

Science and Technology

Students in an anatomy class.

The scientific shipwreck of the Catalan school

The diplodocus also lived in Europe: they find in Teruel the first specimen

When science opens letters closed centuries ago